MOSTLY CLOUDY TODAY....HIGH ONLY OF 58.
TOMORROW, MOSTLY SUNNY AND AGAIN,  A HIGH IN UPPER 50'S.
WE MIGHT GET DOWN TO AN OVERNIGHT LOW OF AROUND 32 BEFORE THE WEEK IS OVER.

THE JACKSON COUNTY UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR AUGUST WAS 7.4 PERCENT,
UP FROM 7.2 PERCENT IN JULY.

MAQUOKETA POLICE REPORTED THE THEFT OF A 12 SPEED BLUE MONTAIN
BIKE,  TAKEN WHILE ON THE GRASS AT THE MAQUOKETA POST OFFICE AROUND 7 SATURDAY NIGHT.

A SABULA  WOMAN, BRENDA WAGNER, AGE 46,  WON A $250,000 LOTTERY PRIZE AND PICKED UP HER WINNINGS FRIDAY IN CEDAR RAPIDS.  SHE BOUGHT THE $10 SCRATCH GAME AT THE HOP N SHOP IN SABULA.    SHE IS A LINE ASSEMBLER AT THE ELKA MANUFACTURING COMPANY IN SAVANNA, ILLINOIS.

MAQUOKETA SCHOOL BOARD MEETING AT 6 TONIGHT.

A BIRTH.   A GIRL BORN TO JIM AND BRENDA VANKEUREN OF SEVERN, MD...BORN SUNDAY.    GRANDPARENTS ARE DENNIS AND JANET STANGE OF MAQUOKETA.

THANKS FOR THE VISIT.

DENNIS VOY

THIS SUMMER, THE OLD KMAQ FM-

TRANSMITTER GAVE UP THE GHOST.   WE FOUND

               ANOTHER OLD  ONE IN DAVENPORT TO KEEP US ON THE AIR.

THE LIKE-NEW REPLACEMENT ONE FROM DUBUQUE

ARRIVED TODAY.     IT IS BEING  UNLOADED

ABOVE BY JOHN PORTER, TOM MESSERLI

AND MARK BECK.   TOM (MAYOR) IS OUR

ENGINEER AT KMAQ AND JOHN HELPS HIM

WHEN NEEDED.    TOM IS A FIREMEN

AND TALKED CHIEF BECK INTO HELPING MOVE

THE HEAVY TRANSMITTER FROM WHERE IT

RECENTLY WAS REPLACED BY A  NEW ONE,

IN DUBUQUE.    THAT STATION WANTED TO GO WITH

A DIGITAL TRANSMITTER AT THEIR NEW TOWER LOCATION.

OUR THANKS TO  JOHN REGAN OF RCS

COMPUTERS AND APPLIANCES IN MAQUOKETA FOR

LETTING KMAQ USE HIS TOMMY-LIFT  PICKUP.

SOON, IN A DAY OR TWO, THE ABOVE TRANSMITTER

WILL BE PUT ON-THE-AIR.

   FROM NOW ON, WE WILL HAVE TWO FM

TRANSMITTERS,  AS WE WILL KEEP

THE  OLDER ONE WE HAVE BEEN USING FOR

EMERGENCY USE IN THE FUTURE.

CLICK-ON PHOTOS TO ENLARGE.   

DENNIS VOY

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.

MARK BECK HELPING TO SLIDE IT

IN PLACE AFTER LETTING IT DOWN

FROM TRUCK AND GUIDING IT

THROUGH THE REMOVEABLE

WALL PANEL IN THE TRANSMITTER

BUILDING.

          When you need to have something moved,

         call PORTER, MESSERLI & BECK, LTD.

in Maquoketa.....pictured left to right.

    Here they are, standing in front of KMAQ'S

   low-milliage FM transmitter, ready to push

out the KMAQ programs in a day or two.

               It's a 10 thousand watt transmitter, but 

            we can NOT run it at full power.    Our

           license is for 6kw.        DENNIS VOY