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Fabled Radio of
KABN 830 AM
The Voice of the People
Long Island, Big Lake, Ak
by W.J. Lynus O'Brien

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Friday, 03 September 2010

TALES FROM THE TOWER

Bear's Story
Friday, 20 February 2009 | Roger Leff

Bear's StoryStories about KABN radio...where does one begin? I had the priceless opportunity to spend 5 years doing the morning show at KABN...the transmitter was fired up by 5 AM when “the Golden Age of Radio would be broadcast. It was a funky series of old-time radio with the likes of “Fibber McGee and Molly” and “Abbot and Costello” gracing the early morning airwaves. After that it was 4 hours of music with Local News, Trapline Messages, the Trading Post and Ride Board...
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I took 1 st personal loans when I was 25 and it helped my relatives very much. However, I need the college loan once more time.
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I used to listen to you guys 1982-1986 when I was stationed at Elmendorf. One day I was talking to someone at Eielson on the phone, both of us stopped talking when we realized we were both listening to Kabn radio. (pretty good propagation through the passes) You guys were great smiley
Bear's Story
Great Story. Thank you Roger. Please let Kim Adelia know that her old Fairbanks friend says 'hi'
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And a dream it was. Traveling up the Alcan with my dog and Winchester 30.30 in a little orange Datsun pickup, the year: 1980. I was 23 and burned out on what I'd been doing and was looking to the Great Promise That Was Alaska. Some of the best times of my life were out on a roof pounding nails for a Wasilla contractor, with the radio cranked to KABN radio listening to the songs that were to become my background music for life the next three summers. Whether catching Reds in Nancy Lake Creek, or driving over Hatcher Pass way too early in the year, there was only one station on that old cassette radio, it might just as well have been welded in place. I can't explain the feeling of being young in a Great Land, living free, working hard during the housing boom of the early '80's and just soaking it all in to my soul. And KABN always in the background. Man, where did it all go, the life, the dreams, the expanse, the thrill of living in a place where nature calls the shots and I only too ...
Bear's Story
what can you say when one of the most mentioned names by regular KABN listeners is the studio dog? a true celebrity of Alaskan broadcasting.

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RADIO FREE BIG LAKE -- or what a long strange trip it's been
Monday, 01 December 2008 | W.J. Lynus O'Brien

RADIO FREE BIG LAKE -- or what a long strange trip it's beenThinking back on it, I wonder? Would I change it if I could? Would I take it all back? Even after all these years I'm not yet able to answer that question. But what I do know, what I can tell you, giving it straight from the heart, is this, that night in 1980 during my weekly bath in the old #3 wash tub I began a journey that took me down a path from which there was no coming back. I'd...
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