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["The Programming Director's Account" <progdir AT www.wxdu.org>]

For the benefit of the 3 or 4 of you who are not wxdu djs..

WXDU's Station to transmitter link has gone down due to flooding in the 
building in which it is housed.  We may be off the as much as a few days.  
Please keep checking 88.7FM and wxdu.org 

ps. thanks to Mark for the kinds words about local college radio.  
Also we are chronically frustrated by our terrestrial 
signal.  Unfortunately we are limited by having little money and 
restrained by FCC rules.  Specifically, our tranmitter tower is out near 
Hillsborough and we are required to protect Shaw University's signal from 
Raleigh at 88.9FM.  This results in a somewhat weak coverage in Durham's 
Direction.  Our signal problems are particularly bad durin summer mornings 
due to meteorological conditions.  So in the Fall we should be sounding 
better again if you are not trying to tune us in from behind a hill.  (for 
example, Intersecttion of Franklin st and Estes in CH, or 54 
bypass in CH)

Jeff 
Assistant PD, WXDU