Nick, a fascinating read, and Chris goes into further detail to answer the questions that I had asked of him when a group of about a dozen of us DXers toured Entercomm Milwaukee (WSSP-1250, and others) in August 2017. I had asked him if universities and broadcasting schools (Brown, and others) were doing anything to educate young people about the technical side of radio and about the duties of maintaining multi-tower sites. "Virtually nothing", he replied. "I'm 48, and I'm one of the youngest people I know of still doing this. There's nobody coming up behind us to take over."

That portends an eerie future for radio, and for those of us who are hobbyists in it. Before that visit, I had been a stauch defender of AM's future, but now, I'm more like, "Well, I'm just going to milk this cow for however long there's milk left in her."

73,
Rick Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska