JOHN PORTER OF MAQUOKETA, GUIDING

IT INTO THE SMALL BUILDING OUT AT THE

BASE OF OUR TOWER AT BRIDGEPORT,

JUST NORTHEAST OF MAQUOKETA A COUPLE

MILES.     BRIDGEPORT  WAS ONCE A PLOTTED

CITY AND HAD A ONE-ROOM SCHOOL AND

STILL HAS A CEMETERY.   JONN, NOW A

RETIRED ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN WHO

WORKED FOR THE STATE, WAS KMAQ'S

CHIEF ENGINEER IN THE  60'S WHEN KMAQ-

FM FIRST WENT ON-THE-AIR IN 1967.

JOHN'S MOTHER, BY THE WAY, WAS WELL

KNOWN IN MAQUOKETA AS SHE WROTE

FOR THE MAQUOKETA NEWSPAPER.

HER NAME WAS GLEE PORTER.