It's been awhile, hasn't it?

Well, I haven't updated this long in about a month have I? So sorry for slackin off!

We had some technical problems here and I put out some (not literally) fires. There were several computer issues and transmitter issues that kept plauging the radio station. We'd fix them, it'd break again, we'd fix, it'd break... and each time, when it broke it'd do the same thing.. but it was a different fix each time.

I want to thank Engineer Glen Zeigler who's been a great help programming wise. A big, big thank you also goes out to former Star 99 WEZN Morning Host John Harper, he and I correspond on a very regular basis and he's been an invaluable source of information and great ideas! I owe a debt of gratitude to Mark Hellinger, my friend and the owner of WABV... he has been very very supportive and understanding in the last 18 months!! I owe alot to ira Littman as well, who, over the last 4 1/2 years has become my best friend. He's been in radio for 40 years and he is someone I trust 100 percent and always get some great, honest advice from.

Josh Wilkey has also been invaluable and is the first to tell me when I'm doing something stupid or when I'm right on track. he's a straight shooter and is always there when I need some advice!

WABV will soon be upgrading our automation system, Thanks in part to our new "sister station", Bluegrass Country 1480 WSRC in Fair Bluff, North Carolina. WABV has been simulcasting WSRC's wonderful Classic Country, Western Swing and Bluegrass format for the last few weeks. We have joined forces and resources, and some great things are in the works. We currently carry IRN-USA news, we're working on even more local shows and there's going to be a big Bluegrass festival in Fair Bluff sometime this year.

Check out WSRC 1480 online at http://www.bluegrass-countryonline.com

Big things, exciting things.. and CHANGES are coming!

I AM BEING LOCKED UP! PLEASE HELP BAIL ME OUT!!

Cool Country 1590 WABV's Paul Walker (that's me) will be getting locked up on May 22nd from 3 to 4pm in support of the Muscular Distrophy Association.
The event will be taking place at The Inn On The Square in Greenwood. The website for The Inn On The Square in Greenwood is http://www.innonthesquaresc.com/

Also, I will (hopefully) be doing live breaks on the air via cell phone while i am locked up to help further promote the cause and to get me bailed out.

In the next week or so, I will have more information as to how you can donate money to the MDA specificlaly for me, to get me bailed out.

I will also be talking, on the air, to one young MDA National spokesperson ho lives just up the road in Due West.

Other exciting things to come!

Well, shit..Another Crappy Day At The Radio Ranch in Abbeville...

Ah well, we were back on the air at The Mighty 1590 for a few hours Thursday night before sign off. It WAS working well... 1000 Watts, 125 percent modulation.

We were the loudest AM signal in Abbeville-Greenwood! We had blown a rectifier earlier Wednesday which is what caused the transmitter to malfunction and not operate properly.

Anyways, The Gates BC1H was fine when I signed off. When I signed on Friday morning, the RF Line Current was at "ZERO" again and my audio was muddier then a pig, 6 feet deep in steaming s^%t!

My engineer had to order some parts from Newarks Electronics in Gafney, SC. WABV was off the air all day Friday and will be off till at least Saturday Morning.

The transmitter was blowing the 2 and 3 amp fuses as quick as I could get them in. I put in a NEW 3amp fuse and it went "kapoof" as soon as I turned the transmitter on.

I was expecting to hear from a few people on the phone today, but didn't. One of them has a very justifiable excuse and I hope she feels better....... but the other guy, we keep playing phone tag.

Oh well.

I'm probably going to end up going to bed early tonight.. nothing else to do.

Sometimes I wonder why I still give a shit about radio, why I still care or even try anymore. I love the business but it obviously doesn't love me back.

Today is NOT my day.....

Well, the day can't get TOO much worse.

A few hours after signing on this morning, I noticed my audio was real loud, distorted and muddy. Shortly after, I got a phone call from a ham radio friend of mine in town who said the same thing.

I tried fiddling with the modulation monitor along with my Innovonics 222 and Symetrix 528 processors thinking a setting had SOMEHOW gone awry.

Well, that didn't solve anything...

I turned off my processor, in hopes I could by pass it and thinking it was an equipment issue. I could watch those levels for a day till my engineer got here.

Nope, it wasn't that either.

In fact, when I turned off the processor, I noticed that I had a slightly noisy signal on the boombox radio in my studio. That's when I looked over at my Gates BC1G transmitter.

The RF Plate volts read about 2250 or 2300. The RF Plate Current, RF Line Current and Modulation meters all had readings WAY out of wack. In fact, the RF Line current read ZERO and the other 2 barely read ANYTHING at all.

I shut the transmitter off, grabbed the keys to the fence and walked outside. I walked along the transmission cable and didn't see a problem. I ended up not needing to go into the fence, as everything looked ok.

I walked back to the front door......and it was... LOCKED! Out of habit, when I walk out the front door, I lock it, unless Im just going to the mailbox. I was on the phone with someone and got distracted.. locking the door on my way out without thinking about it.

The back door to the station was latched and had the deadbolt locked. All the windows were locked too.

I took a square piece of wood that was pretty thick and midly tapped it against the window pane till it broke, reached in and unlatched the lock and climbed in through the window behind the soda machine.

I called my Chief Engineer, he told me to shut the transmitter off and he'd be down tomorrow to look into it.

What leaves me wondering is... if barely, if any, power was getting to the tower.. how was my friend 4 or 5 miles away getting a listenable signal from the station? When my ham friend called me, he didn't note any signal issues with regards to it being weaker then usual

I also peaked at all four 833 tubes in the transmitter and didn't see anything wrong.

Mind you, this transmitter is in great shape (or was??) and had been wonderfully maintainted while in use up to a few years ago at a station on 1460 in Western North Carolina. It's way better then the RCA BTA1-M WABV had in use that finally died after 51 1/2 years of service.

Other then having my audio and signal go to shit.. and having to break the window, my dady is just damn peachy. At least it's not winter, and I have a permanent breeze in the back hallway now.

Not much else new to report!

More updates

Hey everyone!

It's been a little while since I *REALLY* updated this page!

The Gates BC1H was installed several weeks ago here and is doing well. The audio portion of the Gates BC1H is all solid state, as compared to the audio portion from the old RCA BTA1M was all tubes. The Gates BC1H can modulate ALOT better and ALOT LOUDER, which is a good thing and helps my signal out even more.

Please update all of your bookmarks! The DOMAIN NAME WalkerBroadcasting.com is disappearing due to the expiration of said domain name. However, my website will still continue on. You will be able to access it by going to http://www.realradiousa.com or http://www.theradiogod.com!!

Both addresses will go to the same site actually.

COMING SOON! You will be able to hear my voice on WWFM 89.5 and KDFM 98.5 in the town of Koror which is located in the Republic of Palau. The Republic of Palau is 300 miles east of the southern part of the Phillipines, 400 miles north of Papua New Guinea, 600 to 800 miles Southeast of Guam and the Northern Marianas Islands and 1400 miles west of Micronesia.

The stations are owned by former US Army Sergeant Alfonso Diaz who whos also a Palauan Senator. The stations utilize Crown 500 Watt transmitters with Omnia 3FM processors, Electrovoice RE27 Microphones and 12 Channel Mackie Mixer Boards and DJ Pro Automation software from Italy (I forget the name)

Palau is home to 20,000 locals and 7,000 foreigners.

You will get to hear my voice doing WWFM 89.5 and KDFM 98.5 Station Identifications, Promotional Announcements & Liners. You'll be able to hear me on the FM dial if you are local to Koror or online at http://www.palauradio.com

Check out some Palau related websites:
http://palau.pw/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau
http://www.visit-palau.com


I'm working on a few other projects here and there. I'm helping a friend locate land for a tower site to be utilized by a Non Directional Daytime AM radio station. I'm assisting a radio station in accquiring tshirts and bumper stickers and trying to sell a few radio industry related things. (Not things I necessarily own)

I'm sure I'll post more later on when I think of something I forgot. The maps below show exactly where The Republic of Palau is.


Here are two images of a map showing where Palau is.....

Damned computers....

Damned technology...... I'm having DNS issues with my Charter business class internet, I'm having problems with the domain name switch over, it is happening but it's taking awhile and not going as well.

So, that being said... if this site disappears, some parts of it doesn't work or goes kapootski... that's why! Just hang tight and if something goes BOOM, it'll be back to normal....eventually!!

*Sighs*. Does anyone have a sledgehammer I can borrow??

WABV Update

Well, the RCA BTA1-M Transmitter is cooked. Well, not literally, but it's seen it's last days. Then again, after 50 years of operations, what can you expect?

The think wasn't very well maintained by previous engineers (I have no idea who they were though).. and the unit was jurry rigged in several places. I was, frnakly, still surprised this thing worked. I did kinda expect it to die one day, so this isn't a total surprise.

We have the hardline transmission cable in place and the ATU rebuilt, painted and mounted. We were up at 500W last week and found , on the same night we had the "new" cable in and ATU remounted that a part had burnt out a fe wmonths ago and we didn't know it till then..

In trying to fix what was wrong with that part, we discovered a few other problems.. and not only can this transmitter not function anymore.. it plain old wouldn't be safe to do so anyways.

I DO have a Gates BC1G tuned to 1580 sitting in the back hallway that came from La Poderosa 1580 WDAB in Travelers Rest/Greenville. It uses 4 833's and 4 807's just like my BTA1M but we haven't had time to finish going through that box and determine if anythings wrong with it. The BC1G is the original transmtiter from when 1580 used to be WBBR.

My engineer knows of another Gates transmitter that ALSO uses 833 tubes which is sitting in Western North Carolina that isn't too far off frequency wise. He's going to be going over to that station Monday to check out the box, make arrangements with it's current owner and bring it down here Tuesday.. and HOPEFULLY.. we should be back on the air Wednesday... hopefully, but that's all dependent on what happens in the next few days.

The only thing that could throw a monkey wrench into the plans is that the crystal I bought for the Gates BC1G from Comemrcial Radio Supply in Cavendish, Vermont may not work with the gates transmitter were getting from a station in Western North Carolina. If we have to get another crystal, it may be a few more days off the air.

Now I'll have oodles of 833 tubes... my RCA BTA1-M Has 4 good 833 tubes in it. My Gates BC1G has 4 good 833 tubes in it and the other Gates transmitter (forget the model number) that's coming from Western North Carolina also has 4 good 833 tubes.

It'll be nice to have an overabundance of 833 and 807 tubes laying around. I'm not totally sure if the other Gates coming down here has 807's or not.... I forget what my engineer told me... we were up till 5am trying to get this contraption working.

I'll post more updates when I know what's going to be happening.

What a week...

I don't update this as often as I should admittedly, but hey.. something is better then nothing... right? ;=)

Anyways, a couple things have been going on around here...

I've been trying to eat healthy. For those who don't really eat healthy, it's harder to do then you think.. you have to take it in small steps because breaking yourself of a bad habit (take out food, etc)... isn't that easy!

I've been eating Ground Turkey instead of Ground beef when making "hamburgers" and making "Hamburger Helper". I've been using low fat salad dressing on my salad and the broccoli I've been eating. (I got a bag of broccoli florets at the grocery store). I've been using the store brand "I can't believe it's not butter" along with Morton's "1/2 Salt" mixture.

It's no huge change, but it's certainly a help and a start. The biggest problem in mydiet is that I need to cut down on calories/carbs and salt in my diet.

We (My Chief Engineer and I) have been making some improvements and working on the radio station. We spent all day Thursday (from about 930am till 11pm) working on building a new ATU (antenna tuning unit)... we had to clean and paint the old one then put it all together, which isn't terribly easy.

We also spent the day laying out new transmission cable. Well ok, it isn't new... but it's used, in good condition.. new to me! (Thanks Neal and WPAT 930!!).. it was a bit of a trip to get that done because we had to get it over a 10 foot tall bush of prickers without kinking up the wire.

I was excited to finally be at full power. Sure, we should've been months ago, but however ya spell it, it's exciting nonetheless. We were about ready to fire up the transmitter around 9:30pm to make sure everything worked... and well, it didn't.

Apparently, when trying to go to high power a few months ago a part in the back of the transmitter got burnt out.. and we didn't find out till right then. I don't know which part it is exactly, but the relay (i think that's what it was) gave us a green and silver light show 2 or 3 times...... one "light show" was so big & bright ... it made me go, "Oh g*d d&^n" and jump back a foot or two.. lol

Im surprised this 50 year old RCA BTA1-M Transmitter still works.. but it does, it's limping along.. but it's doing the job we ask of it.

Anyways, onto other things.......

Most people know I have a pet... George, a beagle whos 6 or so years old (he's odler then I originally thought). A dog is such a great friend to have around.... pets really do reduce stress. How can you be made for long when a dog with big flopper ears and big, dumb brown eyes looks up at you and licks your hand? You pet likes you unconditionally no matter what... they just wanna place to sleep, eat, go to the bathroom and plenty of love/attention from their owner.. plus they aren't as expensive to take care of as a real person.. LOL............ they don't demand all sorts of clothes and material items.

I was on City Talk 105.9 in Liverpool, England the other day during the ovenright Roy Basnett show. Yo ucan listen to the 10 minute MP3 here:

http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/citytalk.mp3

You can check out the City Talk 105.9 website by going to www.citytalk.fm where you can even listen to the station live on the internet!

I've taken some new pictures.. and have a fe wmore new ones to take. I will be posting them soon!

Well, that's all for now.. I'm going to go take a shower, make some lunch and walk George. Enjoy your weekend!



not been sleeping well, frustrated with things
going to be doing some engineering work at WABV....

Whew....Computer problems at Work!

...You know about Murphy's Law, right? Well, it seems to apply to me..ALOT!

About 10 minutes before I was going to go to bed, the automation comptuer at WABV wouldn't boot up 100 percent. It'd show the desktop wallpaper, but wouldn't load the start button or desktop icons. For al lyou non raido folks, the automation computer is what plays out the mp3's on the hard drive of our classic country music.

I pulled a computer in from the transmitter hallway and put it in a corner in the studio. It doesn't have any music on the hard drive but it does have an internet connection and Winamp on it.

We are simulcasting another radio station right now and probably will simulcast them on Wednesday and Thursday as well..possibly even Friday, depending on how quickly we can fix the computer and reload everything into it.

You can tune into our webstream at http://www.wabv1590.com I have it turned on right now, it's encoded at 24K Mono. (And yes, the other station knows I'm simulcasting them)

*WHEW*.... Im going to go take a nap, I need a bit of a rest after running around for 2 hours earlier this morning trying to get everything up and running.

I found some old airchecks!!

Well, ok. .i didn't exactly FIND them per se, I've had them on my hard drive but I just thought about them earlier tonight and decided to share them online.

Paul Walker on The United Broadcasting Network

This clip was recorded off then WCNX-AM 1150 Middletown, Connecticut which was a United Broadcasting Network affiliate. It aired in October 1997 when I was only 13 years old!



Paul Walker On WTIC NewsTalk 1080 Hartford, CT Clip #1

This aired on February 11th, 2000 16 years old. I was an in-studio guet for Ann Baldwin's last day on the air.

Paul Walker On WTIC NewsTalk 1080 Hartford, CT Clip #2

This also aired during Ann Baldwin's last talk show, when I was an in studio guest on February 11th, 2000

And YES.. I know the audio quality is horrible....... These clips are almost 10 years old in some cases. The UBN clip was recorded on a casette tape then recorded into the computer using the computer microphone. the WTIC clips were recorded off an AM tuner onto a VCR Deck sitting next to a TV and fed into the computer using the computer microphone.

I didn't know any better back then, LOL!!

Enjoy the audio.. and have a Happy Holiday!

Thanks To Neal Newman

Normally, I'd send a message like this to someones private email inbox, but since I want to share what I am thankful for...this expands on one of the things I am thankful for, so I wanted to share it with everyone.

Mr. Newman, the East Coast Regional Engineering Director for Multicultural Radio Broadcasting was flying his plane from Jacksonville, Florida back to New Jersey. He needed to stop for gas. He decided to land at the Greenwood Country Airport, borrowed someones car and drove over here.

He was only here for a few hours, but it was very , very valuable time and I came away learning a few new things. Not only did Neal teach me and share some valuable knowledge with me, but he ALSO went out to my tower here at the station and helped me clear crap from the fence.. and my tower is now free and clear and any overgrowth. We were out there in the dark, in the middle of the field at 7:30 in the evening working by the headlights of the Ford Explorer sawing off tree limbs and bushes.

If Neal and I didn't absolutely love what we do, would we have been out there at 7:30pm working by the light of headlights from a truck standing in prickers sawing off tree limbs?

It is people like Neal who so graciously share their time, knowledge and expertise with me that makes me thankful and makes me feel honored to know such fine people. Neal is an exceptional engineer who is an encyclopedia of knowledge.

Just a reminder this holiday season.... think about those who really mean something to you and how they impact your life...... even the littlest incidents can make the biggest impacts.

Regards,
Paul B. Walker, Jr.
Operations Manager/Program Director/On Air Personality"
The Best Country Classics Ever Made" Cool Country 1590
WABV-AM 1590 Abbeville, SC http://www.wabv1590.com/
http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/ www.myspace.com/walkerbroadcasting
www.myspace.com/wabv1590 walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com

Oh, blah.. whatever!

I just haven't been in a good mood lately...

..there are those people who are your friends or say they like you only when it's convienient for them, when they're bored or you're the only one around..

Trust me, I know.. it happens to me..ALOT....... there's a few people I like but sometimes, I don't think they like me despite what they say.. and they certainly don't take enough time to show me they even remotely care.

You know, I admit freely.. that I am an emotionally needy person, I've never denied that..but at the same time, I don't think that asking for some attention and appreciation is too much, everyone deserves it.. I just feel like Im getting ar less then my fair share.

My sleep has been totally fucked up too, Im sleeping for 3 hours in the middle of the night then staying awake till 3pm, and crahsing for 6 or 7 hours and staying up all night again.

Sometimes I feel like my only REAL friend is my damned dog. Yeah, that's right.. I said it. When you think about it, he never yells,swears, talks back, gives me crap or misbehaves. .and he listens to everything I've got to say.. unlike most people.

Anyways, I'm off to bed.. goodnight folks!

Some random early morning thoughts....

Well, I've had a few thoughts on my mind over the week and just wanted to share 'em. It's nothing major, but wanted to expunge them before I head to bed.. lol

I'm in a tad bit better shapre then I was 10 months ago. Around the corner is a small convience store/gas station that you have to go down a hill to get to from WABV and back up a hill to return to WABV.

Mind you, it's not a huge hill.... but it's a bit steep. I like to rid my bike the 1/2 mile.. why? Just because it's fun and a bit more exercise then walking. Wel, when I first started 6 months ago, I couldn't make it all the way up the hill without stopping..getting off and walking my bike up till the hill levels off.

NOW, even with a bag in my hand, I can ride all the way up without stopping or any problems whatsoever. Gee,, I seem to be easily pleased, HAHA. Small milestones I guess. I can only imagine if I walked or rode my bike several times a week, on a REGULAR Basis for a mile or two.. how much better shape I'd be in then!

I guess the reason I'm happy is because I need to get in better shape, something I've been doing on and off for the last 2 years... and I need to get back on that bandwagon. Now, I just need to start eating/drinking better.... gotta stop eating all those frozen dinners and canned soups. I need to start drinking more water and stop drinking so much soda.

I'm6 feet 2 and weigh almost 225 pounds. Now, that's not bad at all, but when you consider I used to weigh 175 pounds all through high school because I walked 30 miles a week, to and from school... you can see why I need to get back into better shape.

I have, admittedly, have had somewhat of a "checkered" radio careerin the past. For one reason or another, I've left those past jobs. However, I'm left to wonder what would today be like, if for instamce, I have never left KYYZ in Williston North Dakota? Just one of those "what ifs" that you occassionally think about.

However, everything works out for the best.. and is meant to happen.. so while I'm struggling here at WABV, things will get better, they just have to!!

When will WABV be going all Christmas music? It will be happening sometime in the next month or so. Will it be the day after Thanksgiving? Will it happen a week before Christmas?

How long will the Christmas music last.. till December 26nd? January 2nd?

When the Christmas music ends, will Cool Country 1590 come back from vacation or will you see a NEW "flavor" of WABV for your listening pleasure?

AH HA!! I'm not going to tell you just yet, you're going to have to stayed here to this blog and to AM 1590 in Abbeville & Greenwood to find out who, what, when, where and why!

Almost the weekend...

Well, thinks are looking up here a little at "THE MIGHTY 1590"!

Im going to be picking up some Paid-Time Programming. For now, I just have Sunday afternoons at 11 for a natural medicine and health book show. It will run for an hour. I hopefully will be picking up at least 1 hour a day Monday thru Friday in the coming weeks from companies pitching various medical stuff, and yes.. colon clensins.

I know you're rolling your eyes and probably thinking all sorts of things. One thing I can say is that when the bills have to be paid, you do what you have to do. When I got into radio, I never thoght I'd "stoop to this level" so to speak, but overtime, Ive realzied... well, this is what needs to be done to help bolster the bottom line.

George D. Beagle has been hired as a staff member of WABV/Cool Country 1590. To see his information, just go to http://www.wabv1590.com and click the "Staff" link to find out more.

My 24th birthday is coming up! I turn a whole year older on November 19th, the same day as Ted Turner and larry King. Hmmm.. could that be an omen of good things to (eventually) come?

I'm praying to all that's holy in the universe of radio that it is an Omen!! :)

I hope all is well with everyone!!

A Very Vivid Dream....

Well, it's been a little while since I last updated this, but I had a VERY VIVID dream I wanted to share with you people who read my blog. It's nothingweird or perverted. .but it's definately interesting. Some people have thought I'm crazy when I told them what my dream is, but I'll let you decide that for yourself..

Anyways, it was Wednesday or Thursday of last week and I was slepeing!(Obviously!)... I had a dream I was back in North Dakota on the air at a radio station. Now, I have no idea what radio station I was at, but it was clear I was in North Dakota and at some station.

What makes this dream so vivid is that I could actually "picture" myself sitting in the studio and I was on the air at the time during my dream.

Anyone wanna comment on what they think that means? As most of you know, I worked for a brief time in beautiful Williston North Dakota.

I hope everyone is doing well! Life is a little furstrating right now, career wise.. but that's life I guess.

IT'S MONDAY MORNING!!

Lately, I've been staying awake till 7am and getting 5 or 6 hours of sleep. It's not good for me, I know..but whatever.

Well, my sales guy, Chris... quit after a week. But luckily, I have a new guy on board. Matt will be handling Sales for WABV-1590 as well as some Promotions work. I FINALLY think I've found someone whos up the challenge and will get the job done!!! We've already got TONS of ideas for programming and promotions!

I've updated the WABV website, which you can see by going to http://www.wabv1590.com or check our the NEW WABV/Cool Country 1590 blog at http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/wabvblog.html

The website and blog have a long ways to go, but it is definately a start and it will be improved upon in the coming weeks and months!(A website is never TRULY done and is ALWAYS under construction!!)

The weather has FINALLY cooled down here in Abbeville! We'd been having some very warm weather in July and August (obviously, it's summer in the south!!)... but it was warmer then usual, with some days seeing 100+... and in some cases, 105+ for days in a row. But lately, temperatures have been in mid 80s during the day and not nearly as much humidity.. PLUS, we got a much needed soaking from the rain on Friday night!!

You know, it's really nice having George, my 3 year old Beagle around. He's a fairly well behaved dog 85 percent of the time, never gives me lip, talks back to me or any of the other shit you get when delaing with human beings. Plus, all he asks for is love, attention, food, water, a place to p**p and a palce to sleep. That's alot less then any human being asks for.

Time to clean up around here and get a little rest.

See ya later!

Some random thoughts.....

..Well, I hope everyone had a good week! It's gotten a bit warm here again for the last few days, but not quite as bad as our 105+ heatwave a few weeks ago.

The radio station is starting to get noticed! We've handed out almost 20 little mini radios with batteries to local businesses in town, with the promise that if we give it to them, they must listen to Cool Country 1590! As so far, according to my sales guy, Chris, not one business has said no. Sure, they could change the station when we live, but frnakly, they won't have much of a choice as reception on these little radios is only good for "LOCAL" stations. Our AM tower is closest to almost every business in town, being a mere 2 or 3 miles away compared to the nearest FM tower being 5 or so miles away.

On another subject...

Hello to Keri Jones and everyone at Radio Scilly (www.radioscilly.com)! 107.9 Radio Scilly is a 200 Watt Community Radio Station licensed by OfCom(Office Of Communications, www.ofcom.org.uk) for The Scilly Islands. The islands are 30 miles off the southwest coast of England. They not only have a live audio stream, in both dialup and broadband quality but a LIVE in studio webcamera/video stream as well! Check them out and tell them Paul Walker from Abbeville, South Carolina, USA sent you!

I really wish I had the money to take a vacation. I really would like to Europe and Spain. I have a few specific places I REALLY want to visit:

***United Kingdom
***Austria
***Turkey
***Moscow, Russia
***Canary Islands

But that would be an expensive trip! I'd honestly love to live somewhere in Europe/England, but that's extremely hard to do.. getting a work visa and all is NOT easy! But, living/working in radio over there is on my list of things to achieve in my lifetime.

When I was at the grocery store last week, someone who was probably younger then me was bagging my groceries. After he was finished, he said, "Thank you Sir, have a great day!"... I'm only 23 years old and Im being called Sir! LOL, that made me feel kinda old. Plus, you'd never see that up north.

I'm sure I'll think of something later... and when I do, I'll update this, again!

Ahhh...the weekend!

Well, I'm about to get ready for bed here.

This week has been a little stressful and nerve rackin for a few reasons, both personally and professionally. I'd rather not get into much deal, except to say that it has to do with radio, (obviously).. and deals with a project I've been working on for over a year now.

I wish I could take a vacation. Even if I could afford one, I have no one I trust enough to run this place. As much as I like my dog, George The Beagle.. I don't think he's quite smart enough to answer the phones, run the board and operat the computer or transmitter.

Anyways, I hope y'all have a good weekend. I've got nothing special planned, like usual. But, I'll probably head over to the grocery store Saturday or Sunday night to pick up some snacks. I might rent a movie or two online from www.movielink.com some this weekend too.

Well, Me and George The Beagle are off to bed!

JINGLES...JINGLES...JINGLES!!

I recently dug through my collection and put together a montage of jingles. Feel free to download them or share them with others. The montages were from stuff I've personally airchecked or collected off the internet for years..

http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/PaulJingleMix.mp3
The link above is 15 minutes and 30 seconds long, encoded at 128K Stereo/44hz. A lower bitrate (48K/22hz) is found here:
http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/PaulJingleMix1.mp3

http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/oldradiodjjingles.mp3
These were airchecked from a podcast of a morning show from Washington state when they discussed "Inetta The Moodsetta" from WBLX-FM Mobile, AL.

http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/southfljingles1.mp3
http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/bigd103.mp3
These two links are of jingles from different radio stations, but they all sound alike!

http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/wabvabbeville.mp3
And finally, The WABV in Abbeville Theme song

Enjoy everyone... :)

Ah, back to work...

Well, the weekend was not so bad!

On Saturday, Powell E. Way, W4OPW from Newberry South Carolina and myself headed over to Wild Wings Restaurant at The Village at Sandhill in Columbia for a get together with a few fellow radio geek-a-zoids from the South Carolina radio-info.com message board!

In attendance was "CrazeeCarroll" along with "DudeFan", "RobynWatts", Powell and myself. The food was pretty good and the company was even better. it was nice to get together with some fellow radio folk and chew the fat about the business and such for a few hours. I enjoyed the afternoon/evening and hope we get to do it again soon!

I suggest you all check out "The Independent Alternative" WXRY-LP/99.3 in Columbia. They have a cool website, some cool (laughs) jingles and some nice swag in their online store! You can find them at www.wxryfm.org

Oh, and I had a chance to listen to WKDK 1240, Newberry's OLDEST radio station on the good ole' AM radio dial instead of over the web! They have a nice format, I love the music and vintage jingles! Check them out at www.wkdk.com

Some exciting things are happening here at WABV! We're gearing up to get this station back to Full Power, with some even better audio! I'm awaiting some transmission cable.. once we have that, all the peices will be in place. In the enxt few months, I expect to take WABV off the air for a Saturday to replace the transmission cable, replace the ATU and do some serious hedge/tree trimming around the tower!

I've also hired a salesperson, his name is Chris! I'm REALLY excited about having him on board.. he's a knowledgeable fan of Classic Country music and he's not afraid of some hard work! He also completely understands my visions and goals for this radio station. We've got some great things in store for the radio station!

Anyways, time for me to sign off from the PC< clean up a little and go to bed soon.