I knew it had to be done, but it certainly wasn't my idea to start clearing trees at the transmitter site, but that's what I was up to today. My good friend, Bob Scarborough volunteered his services and he actually sort of took charge and so, I was on the hook. It appeared to me that Bob was determined to rid the transmitter site of unwanted trees with or without me, so since I own the place I figured I'd better be there.
So, there we were with two chainsaws that didn't work. We bought a new one. I borrowed a weed whacker from a friend and we started what was going to a long project. As I said earlier, this had to be done, but it was certainly more work than I had anticipated.
If you know anything about AM radio, then you know that there is a ground system of copper lines that extend out from the base of the tower. There's a ton of trees and briar and all kinds of nasty vegetation growing where it shouldn't and that is possibly detrimental for WLSC's signal.
Well, we took down a few trees and we really cleaned up the base of the tower and then the rains came. Yeah, it rained on my parade, but I think we'll be back... unless I decide to call the man.
If you remember the episode of The Andy Griffith Show where Aunt Bee buys a freezer full of meat from Diamond Jim's and then her freezer goes out and she doesn't want o pay the man from Mt. Pilot to come out and fix it and Andy says over and over, "Just call the man!" I might have to do that.
After I got home and cleaned up, it looks like I got into a fight with a polecat. One of those nasty briars cut my ear. It looks like I got my ear pierced. I'm the owner of a radio station. i can't look like I've got my ears pierced. Who's going to believe that i was wrestling a polecat anyway? Who's going to believe that I actually did some work?
Man, I hope this improves the radio station's signal. Ouch, I found another scratch. I'm calling the man.
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