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This building is the home to the main studio
and offices of KZ88! The building is constructed of local stone.
It was built in 1936. It's located at 1211 Ozark Street (West
Business 60) in Cabool, Missouri. Inside is a stone fireplace
which was built by someone with a sense of humor. |
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Director and Operations Manager Kazie Perkins has been
active in local theater. Here she plays the part of a seamstress
in the play "Rebecca". Kazie is on the right. The play
was performed inWillow Springs in February. |
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Gene Colliflower is another Director and News Director
for KZ88. Shown here is Gene providing a report on local and
state voting for the Super Tuesday election last February. |
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Chad and Willie had the major task of creating
a soundproof wall between our main studio and restroom. We're
proud to announce that the new wall successfully passed the flush
test. These two spent a few days volunteering and made not only
what we needed, but a great looking wall. Thanks! |
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Could the real reason for the smiles be that a
long day of work was over? A lot of work was done. Old carpet
removed, walls and ceilings scraped in preparation for new paint.
This was part of the group that showed up at our first work day
at the station. The smiling lady on the left even brought a wonderful
spice cake to the gathering. MMMmmm...cake. By the way, the group
is standing in what will be our newsroom. Thanks to all for all
of the help!!! |

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Work at the tower site has been progressing quickly as weather
permits. Here you can see the forms for the concrete base of the
transmitter building. In the background our underground power feed is
being trenched. |
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Here's the finished pad just about ready for the transmitter building. |

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How many electricians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? It
might make a great joke, but these two took our electrical needs
seriously. Thank you for your great work! |
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For a while our newsroom served double duty as a place to store equipment awaiting installation. |
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vicious trees were tamed thanks to the further efforts of Chad and
Willie. Yes that is what seemed like perpetual ice on the ground. |
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stories up our engineer prepares one part of our studio transmitter
link. The system will allow us to have a "city cam" on our website. |
 | This is the brand new still-in-the-plastic mixer board in our master control room. It can handle 24 stereo inputs. |
 | This is our transmitter building in the process of being delivered. Unfortunately it would take another crew to put it in place. |
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would think it would take so much cement to build a radio station. The
pole being set is the support for our satellite dish. In the background
you can see the bottom STL tower section. |
 | Our News Director Gene is as happy as the rest of us about our transmitter installation. |
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a view of our master control center. Well actually it's our only
control room, but master control sounds so much more important. KZ88
volunteers get to work with the latest equipment and technology. You
give us time and you get valuable new skills, have fun, and support
community radio. |
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Director Gene Colliflower has developed a following for his traffic
reports. Since we are not in a major metropolitan area some of the
information may be less than useful, but it's fun and it's local. |
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is part of our transmission facility. Our entire system is networked
together so we can monitor and control just about anything from
anywhere on the network. For techie types: We're using a Vorsis audio
processor, Burk remote control system with web interface, Henry silence
sensor, a pc for backup programming and telemetry. Our transmitter is
made by Broadcast Electronics and is a solid state model. Our antenna,
not shown, was made by Shively. |
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