<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">Marco -- I'm passing your excellent suggestion on to the KZYX Board. Thank you.</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Marco McClean" <memo@mcn.org><br><b>To: </b>"kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org><br><b>Cc: </b>"gm >> John Coate" <gm@kzyx.org>, discussion@lists.mcn.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, January 29, 2015 1:31:49 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Kzyxtalk] The latest signal problems at KZYX.<br><div><br></div>Kelly wrote:<br><div><br></div>> Anyone else listening to the garbled radio signal?<br>> Do we know why?<br>> More STL problems?<br>> Just wondering if it is going to clear up.<br>> Thanks for any info.<br>> Kelly<br><div><br></div>And Erif wrote:<br><div><br></div>> All three of my radios coughed and<br>> spit; but not when I played KMUD. I tried streaming, but couldn't get<br>> the device to work. I find this pretty near impossible to listen to;<br>> it's much worse today than yesterday.<br>> It does seem to be in-studio, though, as there was an interview with<br>> someone yesterday and the interviewee was clear; the ZYX commentator pop-y.<br>> I tried calling this morning, but no answer.<br>> Is it possible they don't know?<br><div><br></div>And KZYX General Manager John Coate wrote:<br><div><br></div>> ...The main STL radios are about ten years old and are matched with the<br>> KZYX and KZYZ transmitters, which were installed at the same time. It<br>> is not new equipment, but it isn't that old either. It is within its<br>> normal life span. Still, like all equipment, it can, and sometimes<br>> does, break...<br>> ...Our long term debt is now around $16K. We pay it off by the month.<br>> It is not far from being low enough to pay it off in one final payment,<br>> but with so many demands on our resources, it is not time to do that yet...<br><div><br></div>So I wrote:<br><div><br></div>John, here's a solution. You and the rest of the /Downfall/-bunkered <br>high command at KZYX might volunteer to take a 50% cut in pay, use the <br>resulting freed-up money to entirely replace the STLs with brand new <br>ones and/or solve the routing problems another more permanent way, and <br>pay power bills and assorted fees and phone bills and so on, and also <br>pay off the standing debt and ensure there never will be debt in future. <br>With money that you've been removing from the station in your normal <br>paychecks.<br><div><br></div>The best solution would be for you to give up your salaries entirely and <br>be paid at the same rate per hour actually worked as the people <br>struggling to do their shows.<br><div><br></div>-------------<br><div><br></div>Marco McClean<br>memo@mcn.org<br>http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kzyxtalk mailing list<br>Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org<br>http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>