KKK shot up FM transmitter
By
NIGEL MALTHUS
C.93FM radio station is now broadcasting over a transmitter with the distinction of having been-shot up by the Ku Klux Klan, i The transmitter was bought second-hand in the United States last year and was refurbished before being installed in C;93FM’s transmitter room at Sugarloaf. < The station manager, Mr Steven Marshall, said that the previous owner, a Christian radio station in Alabama, incurred the wrath of local Klansmen, who arrived at /the transmitter site and riddled/ the equipment with bullets. Ilf The repaired transmitter bears no scars, witithe station is keeping one > ft the old panels for posterity./. J The new transmitter gives an output power of 10 kW, five times that of the previous transmitter, which has been retained aaan emergency back-up. Because IM transmission is basically lino-of-sight, the higher power /will pot necessarily give greater range but should improve freceppon in areas where fading has Been experienced in the past -»a
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Press, 6 October 1987, Page 1
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