From Russell Wells:
> I was going through a "traveling aircheck tape" from July 1977 ...
> apparently this guy took a long roadtrip from New Mexico to Memphis.
> That in itself wasn't important, BUT he tapped into the speaker line of
> his car radio, feeding into a cassette machine powered by an inverter
> (as I recall the story told me). With that setup, he airchecked a
> whole slew of stations along the way -- there are some good clips from
> Santa Fe, Amarillo, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and .... Little Rock.
>
> Along with some brief clips of the original KLAZ (98.5) and KKYK
> (103.7), he captured a golden minute's worth of The Mighty 1090, with
> David B. Treadway at the mic.
>
> The quality is beautiful -- in listening to the entire montage, it's
> VERY OBVIOUS when he started taping from KAAY; a glaring tribute to its
> engineering. I'll add here that there's a fantastic dialsweep of
> Memphis, and all the big players (WHBQ, WMPS and WDIA) also had great
> audio and all of them jumped out of the speaker larger than life .....
> but to these ears, the KAAY sound had all of them beat.

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