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02-02-2009 Alamo Radio Station to Broadcast 4th of July Parade and Events
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Alamo Radio Station to Broadcast 4th of July Parade and Events
By Dave Maxwell
Staff Writer
KQLN-FM plans to broadcast the annual Alamo 4th of July parade and have interviews with the roving reporters during the events that weekend.
Owner/operator Harvey Caplan of Pahrump, said they plan to come over on Thursday and begin broadcasting Friday evening, July 3, with the motorcycle and quad races. In addition, they will be around for the parade on Saturday and activities in the city park thereafter.
"Everyone is invited to tune to 91.3 FM during those times for interviews, the parade, and Who's Who," Caplan said. "We've been working very hard the past couple of months to try to get the radio station going, and now we're going to take the opportunity to party with everyone in Alamo."
Caplan said, "We are bringing some of the friends of the station over to help us in some of the things." They will have two radio reporters on the scene. One is D.J. Rouke and his wife Lorena. D.J. Rouke, a U.S. Navy veteran, served in the Armed Forces Radio & TV during the Vietnam War. He will do some of the color announcing and will work with what local announcers might be interested in helping out. Caplan said the Fourth of July Committee co-chairwoman Whitney Vande Sluis, "has encouraged us to go where we want and have fun broadcasting what we want to broadcast."
Caplan has already visited the Alamo area at least twice this spring to conduct tests on signal strength and range with a small portable transmitter that can reach about four to six miles. This small transmitter will be used during the Fourth of July broadcasts. However, later in the year, when KQLN is hopefully up and fully functioning with possibly 6,000-watts, Caplan says the signal range will be nearly 40-50 miles.
On Saturday, KQLN plans to have a booth in the park all day in order to give on-site commentary and do interviews using roving reporters with wireless microphones. They will broadcast the parade beginning at 9 am. Following the parade, "Anybody that wants to be interviewed or talk on the mic is welcome. This has always been for the town. It's a community radio station," Caplan said.
At the booth on Saturday, Caplan noted, there will be a PA system hooked into the same audio board that feeds the transmitter. However, the speakers will be positioned far enough away as to not create feedback, "so people will be able to hear what we are doing," he said.
Caplan also said some people who have learned of his plans for the holiday celebration have told him they were going to have to go out and buy a radio, or maybe a bigger one.
"Some people have to work that day," he said, "and we want this to be for them, too."
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