By Rick Kempiak

As a freshman, I was a physics major until I took calculus (yuk). I was also a ham, music etc. so when making the change I went to R/T, tech stuff, no math. with an audience. Wanted hands on, so I found WIDB (along with WSIU, WHPI, WSIL). The ham stuff I wasn’t very good at, but the tech stuff I was. At WIDB I did the tech stuff of managing hundreds of key punch cards for Traffic while having fun with the gang. This evolved into engineering type jobs at several TV stations, AFRTS, WB, Deluxe and Dish.

Fun with the gang on WIDB Cleanup Day

I asked how to get experience in RT and was given WSIU and WIDB. When I applied at WIDB in 79, their traffic Manager was graduating and offered the “paid” position (wink wink) to me because anyone with any smarts would have ran very fast. WIDB was in the basement at the time, and luckily I had a car as I had to move eight heavy boxes of punch cards every month between Wright and the computer lab.

Tony Tony Tony Esposito keeping the fires under control at the Pig Roast

Al Linton was there at the time along with Kerry Peace, Tony Tony Tony, Ted Schultz (my room mate for two years), Floss Daily, the Rock and Roll Troll, John Jam-berg, Charles Begarles,,Cyril Radwin, John Greyson who I helped figure out he had a diffraction pattern at the towers while trying to null out the SWR on the new transmitters. He needed to turn off two transmitters while setting the gamma match to the live one and repeat two times. There was a whole bunch more but it is one in the morning and I need to get some sleep.

Easy.

Rick Kempiak