|
|
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 911
Campfire Regular
|
OP
Campfire Regular
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 911 |
There were others. Name a few.
ALASKA is a "HARD COUNTRY for OLDMEN". (But if you live it wide'ass open, balls'to the wall, the pedal floored, full throttle, it is a delightful place, to finally just sit-back and savor those memories while sipping Tequila).
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 86,318 Likes: 30
Campfire Oracle
|
Campfire Oracle
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 86,318 Likes: 30 |
KFAR in da banks had…..tundra drums?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 911
Campfire Regular
|
|
OP
Campfire Regular
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 911 |
Related there was a company in Anchorage that you could call on your phone they had people in several remote areas that had HAM Radios. That person would get the person you needed to contact to come to him, give them a brief lesson in how it worked. Then the Anchorage company would call me back when everything was ready. It might have been called "Anchorage Radio".
ALASKA is a "HARD COUNTRY for OLDMEN". (But if you live it wide'ass open, balls'to the wall, the pedal floored, full throttle, it is a delightful place, to finally just sit-back and savor those memories while sipping Tequila).
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 25,530 Likes: 5
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 25,530 Likes: 5 |
Father in law called it the “Tundra Telegraph” but he was there about 1949 or 50 until the war.
�Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.� �General George S. Patton, Jr.
---------------------------------------------------------
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 86,318 Likes: 30
Campfire Oracle
|
|
Campfire Oracle
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 86,318 Likes: 30 |
There were several on AM radio out of Anchorage and Fairbanks.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 32,177 Likes: 4
Campfire 'Bwana
|
|
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 32,177 Likes: 4 |
My favorite one of those Bush messages went something like this: "Tell the Dr. to never mind. I won't be in. I had the baby yesterday."
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 86,318 Likes: 30
Campfire Oracle
|
|
Campfire Oracle
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 86,318 Likes: 30 |
Always felt like I was listening in on a party line.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 3,781
Campfire Tracker
|
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 3,781 |
Trapline Chatter is a common one out of the Christian Radio KJNP both out of Wasilla and Fairbanks.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,697
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,697 |
If I remember correctly KFQD or KHAR had Mukluck Telegraph. I used to listen to Caribou Clatter in the 60s.
'Often mistaken, never in doubt'
'Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge' Darwin
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 1,456
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 1,456 |
Galena has a station, KIYU, that broadcasts (and is rebroadcast) throughout the mid Yukon River area.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,110 Likes: 1
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,110 Likes: 1 |
KOTZ in the 1980s was the Tundra Telegraph. Hilarious messages sometimes! If you listened close enough, you could almost catch a whiff of the seal oil on the radio waves.
NPR All Things Considered was another staple. IIRC, Cory Mcclintok ?sp was not too bad There was not too much to listen to up there. ESPN and MTV were relatively new if you had access to the cable "boob tube."
las would know if Tundra Telegraph was still in existence.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 17,491
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 17,491 |
KICY out of Nome still runs Ptarmigan Telegraph.
"To Ralph at Eagle Island..." is the beginning of hundreds of messages I've heard over the years....always thought it would be cool to meet Ralph.
Last edited by Klikitarik; 11/20/22.
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 521
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 521 |
Pretty sure Ralph has passed on. Nice Camp there. Son in Fairbanks owns it now.
|
|
|
|
|
517 members (1lessdog, 1badf350, 1beaver_shooter, 222Sako, 219 Wasp, 160user, 66 invisible),
2,205
guests, and
1,164
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,193,397
Posts18,506,922
Members74,000
| |
Most Online11,491
Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|
