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Show Ooinions from Our Readers ... I I I w signal became very faint, and distance from the canyon wall I n. . ti u 4 prated bv a bait Lake Wty ... Ui. fft f the u.u i 441 Dear Sam: In exhibiting our Nazi souvenirs souv-enirs from WWII, Teeples and I want to make it clear that it is not our purpose in any way to memorialize or add glamour to the Hitler regime. We feel that no sane human being would knowingly knowing-ly perpetuate the extremes to which Hitler led the German people during that period of history; but we would remind anyone who sees this exhibit that there exists today as in the past, the possibility of such extremes breaking out again. Again our purpose is to remind everyone that Nazism was real. Let's not take on the idea that Nazism was like in Hogans Heroes. Let's remember remem-ber that it was a deadly plan to control the world of nations through dictatorship steeped in superstition and fear. How well I remember my visit to Dachau in 1945 just after the war ended in Germany. Ger-many. How well I remember nights spent in London when Hitler began using the V2 rocket and the pilotless Buzz . Bomb. So as you look at these War items give a thought to the men and women who gave their lives to save the world for freedom, then reaffirm your determination to weed out the extreme prejudices that still haunt the world today. Dwain C. Barker Dear Editor: If anyone ever must face the kind of tragedy I had to face over the Christmas holidays holi-days when my brother Roger Renfro and his wife Katherine Stockton Renfro both died, I could only hope that it would be where the people are as kind and considerate as the ones I met in Moab. Please express my heartfelt gratitude grati-tude to all of them, especially the ones whose names I can't remember, but who were equally kind. I want to express special thanks to Mr. "Skip" Nightingale, Nightin-gale, our long-time friend and banker; to Sheldon and Martha Mar-tha Hefner at the Turner Funeral Home; to Sheriff Bowman and Carl; to Mr. Bill Benge, the County Attorney; to George and Linda McGlock-lin McGlock-lin and their father-in-law for their help and hospitality; to Mr. Don Canepa at Atlas Mill; to the gentleman at Canyon-lands Canyon-lands airport who helped me on Christmas morning; and to Mr. Tom Arnold whom I didn't meet, but who helped me on the telephone to get back home to spend Christmas Christ-mas with my own children. All of these people and many others interrupted their own family and holiday festivities to offer assistance and sympathy sym-pathy to me when I sorely needed it. I'll be forever grateful. Yours truly, Margaret Kelly Dear Sam, In a town where tourism is an important industry, it is gratifying to see endeavors above and beyond the norm. Yesterday, a truck and a camp trailer were going through town and two spare tires for the trailer fell off and came to rest at a car lot at the ; south of town. Rodney Dalton of UPL, driving north, made a U-turn, picked up the tires and returned them to the vehicle somewhat south of town. It is this spirit and enthusiasm enthusi-asm that has made our town a welcome stop for many visitors. visi-tors. Ron Auger President Moab Chamber of Commerce LETTER.... The item in the December 30 issue of the Moab Times was a surprise to me for I have been receiving FM broadcasts over my FM set for more than a month. I moved to Moab last August Aug-ust at which time I was told that the FM set which accompanies accom-panies me was useless here as no FM signals could reach the Moab area. I hooked the components together anyway and after improvising a simple dipole antenna began fishing for signals. All I got was faint signals from translators op erated by a Salt Lake City station, and these were too weak for good listening. I could get news and weather reports over some of those at times however. Later I bought a cheap FM directional antenna at the Radio Shack and mounted it atop a twenty-five twenty-five foot mast. This did not improve the translator signals, sig-nals, but during November while searching around over the dial I suddenly found myself listening to music. I oriented my antenna slightly south of east, where the signal came in strongest and then tuned the receiver to the strongest signal point. At this point I was getting a signal which registered almost al-most the full capacity of my tuning meter. The FM stereo was functioning, and the program pro-gram was excellent with no static or background noise whatever. On the first of December the station (KUBC of Montrose, Mont-rose, Colorado, 94 on the dial) began regular broadcasts. Those I heard during November Novem-ber were equipment tests. Since then I have had excellent excel-lent music whenever I felt like lictpnina t.n it. Hurinc the hours between 6 a.m. and about 11 p.m. Upon seeing the item in the Times about the translator to be put into operation by Station KQIX of Grand Junction, Junc-tion, Colorado, I was at first well pleased to know that soon we would have another FM broadcast available, but upon second thought I have misgivings. Station KQIX will come in at 93.1 on the dial while station KUBC of Montrose comes in on 94. This is too close for comfort in a fringe area such as Moab is in relation to Montrose, furthermore, further-more, the Bald Mesa location of the KQIX translator is in direct line between Moab and Montrose and a directional antenna will be in tune with both stations at the same time. My misgivings arise from the danger that the two stations so close together will interfere with each other. It is possible that the beam from the translator will blanket out Montrose in which case will the program material of KQIX be equal to that of Montrose. I fear that we stand to lose more than we gain here. In order to learn just how much of the Moab area could receive the Montrose signal, I borrowed a small portable FM receiver yesterday and made an unofficial survey. First I checked the signal alongside my antenna mast and found that the small set with the three foot antenna could pick up the KUBC signal at ground level, but not well enough to make good listening. My antenna, an-tenna, however, is twenty-five twenty-five feet above ground. With this signal strength as a guide I drove around and made tests in various locations. My trailer trail-er is located in the Red Rock Lodge Court and the signal came in strong as far east as the Post Office. About midway mid-way of the 200 block east the signal became very faint, and this blanketing effect of the canyon wall to the east holds , steady for the full length of the valley. At the 500W-Palisade intersection int-ersection there was no signal whatever. The signal became strong again, however, as I moved south and west from the preceding location. In the Holiday Motel area it was very strong, and this held about the same throughout the area west of Main Street and on out Highway 163 as far as I went (about five miles from Moab). Most of the area east of Main Street and the highway is wide open to the broadcast until nearing the canyon wall, and I found a good yardstick to be sight of the La Sals.. So long as the northeast end of the La Sal Mountains are in view the signal comes in strong; but when the mountains moun-tains cannot be seen, the signal will fail. On East Center-400 East I could get no signal whatever. On East Center-300 East I got a faint signal, and this held about the same to East . Center-100 East where the signal became stronger. This distance from the canyon wall held about the same wherever j f I checked it. In all the resi- Jj dential and rural areas to the .h' south of Moab the signal was . A stronger than in the city proper. y With the KQIX translator s on Bald Mesa, I believe the '; blanketing effect of the can- si yon wall will be as strong as ; with the Montrose station. FM signals are strictly di- rectional and do not go around J 1 corners. The mystery to me :)r has been, how does the Mon- trose signal from seventy-five or more miles away get into the canyon. The only answer j that comes to me is that the signal is being reflected off ' the slopes of the La Sals in 51 some manner, and those slopes are just beyond the 'J location of the KQIX trans- :i lator. I have written a letter to the Federal Communications Commission explaining the above in hopes that they will be moved to changing the wavelength of station KQIX. If there is danger of inter- ference-and I'm not sure that there is-a spreadout on the waveband should correct it. s G. W. Crews i . i |