KDWB-AM (1962 / 1963) - Radio Aircheck - 26 degrees below zero! (Minneapolis/ St. Paul)

[@Mark-yy2py]

I certainly don’t miss those cold Minnesota winters! 🥶😱

[@inkey2]

I do miss it so....when AM radio was really fun to listen to. Not overrun with religious and sports shows.

[@staticmunk7777]

don't even get religious stuff anymre its all talk talk and more talk for a change of pace only two stations up my way does music kbrd 680 am and kixi am 880 all the rest sports or news talk and that only

[@jimbohnenkamp5082]

Don Duchene was unknown to me as a deejay when I took his class in Minneapolis to get my FCC First Class licence in 1972. He was one of the nicest, kindest people I encountered at Brown Institute of Broadcasting. The license got me to my first job, but a few short years later the FCC changed the rules to make the license virtually worthless since nobody needed a license anymore. The experience was worth it.

[@DonDuChenesRadio]

Thanks very much for your comment! Don loved his students and he loved teaching at Brown Institute, both in Minneapolis and in Ft. Lauderdale.

[@bobbiggley6992]

To properly hear this one needs a six transistor radio!

[@ricojones1068]

INDEED / JIM / -- BROWN DID A GREAT JOB EDUCATING AND PLACING QUALIFIED / LICENSED FOLKS LIKE YOURSELF ..

[@MegaKegHead]

I remember that day!

[@ChuckoMountain-fv9yj]

gripping excitement.

[@Brent-qu3yk]

Where is that time gone 🔮🪄⏳️⌛️get inside of time imagine that 🌠🌬 I always tried and still do..

[@ApartmentKing66]

Wonder if when the weather got that cold, the transmitter building had to be heated? Twenty-six below is awfully cold for a transmitter to operate. This is before solid state, when tubes were in every transmitter, and all had cooling blowers in them for the tubes.

[@janetoconnor3636]

It was the same frigid temperature in Cincinnati Ohio in January of 1977 which froze the Ohio River. The wind chill and heating crisis made it miserable the wind was blowing over 40 to 50 MPH. My hands got chapped.

[@KB4QAA]

What a pro! Thanks.

[@MegaKegHead]

Oops, forgot to add that I walked to the bus stop that morning!

[@franklinbolander1916]

WAS THIS JANUARY OF 63,OR JANUARY 62 ??

[@janetoconnor3636]

January 15 1963