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Show PARK CITY BUILT ! 771 TtoTjM t-W-'-'-l - ".Jl v , Jtti'fi v - '! : JgM ;r P! CJ Q . j . . i ." 'Li lit.. , , t'$Zrmmmm tit, i rails to Park City to build the station. It took two visits and over nine weeks of work, spread over four months, to wire the station together. Over a mile of wire went into the main control room and nearly $5,000 worth of electronic parts. Radio engineers earn anywhere from $10 to $35 an hour and it is not stretching the truth to report that Gray and Pue donated in excess of $10,000 worth of work. All Wireless had to pay was the cost of room and board for these self-admitted "radio crazies". To that end the residents and, businesses of Park City rose to the ' occasion. Bob Wells and Moana kicked in four weeks of free lodging as did Ladd Christensen and The Park Station Hotel. With almost no exceptions every restaurant in town helped provide the engineers with meals and the Alpine Slide helped provide after-hours after-hours entertainment. It is to the credit of all these business establishments, which are listed in a thank-you ad in this paper, that they helped Wireless at a time when the clouds were properly thank the tremendous heavy on the national economic number of people and businesses horizon. that have donated money and At the same time, other local energy during the past two years, businessmen were making sub- One final, note, however. This stantial donations in cash to help station would not have been built the station buy the necessary without the encouragement and electronic parts and purchase assistance of the Park city Cham-records, Cham-records, ber of Commerce, especially . nl . , Amanda Peterson and Daryl The Park City Ski Corporation Garnas;the Park City Council, and Nick Badami made a sub- especially Mayor Jack Green and stantial donation to the station ste hen Dering; Greg Vinson and creation as did Merle Huseth and hundreds of others. Royal Street Land Company, Ladd Christensen, Harry and While it is not possible to note Sydney Reed and Bob Williams, all of the persons and businesses Meanwhile, Birl McComb and that made the station possible, it Capson-Morris-McComb and Bill IS possible to note that Park City Coleman of Coleman Land Com- has done what no other city in pany made heavy commitments Utah has ever done, to underwriting quality programs on the station. No brae, iust fact. In this brief number of words it THIS IS THE STATION THAT f is not possible to make note and PARK CITY BUILT! , v mm i -1 ;i i t( (above) Development Director Pat Heltman receives a helping hand from Nick Badami. (below left) Greg Vinson and Dan Wilcox get their heads together and start building the studios. (below right) KSFI donates a stereo generator and stereo excitier to Community Wireless. 'I, ' 'XT I " v " i"f1k 1 iiiniiiiiuHgiZ l,l-nm Hi Till i T , --4 Jbk.totii-Tmmm, mnr i f r-, , -f T:; iaf:. j;vff I q I - - V . - - a 4 , . - II rj - .- A. x -'v ',j Thursday July 3, 1980 Page 5 |