KICY CallCall LetterLetter P.O. Box 820, Nome, 99762 Phone 907-443-2213 Fax 907-443-2344 Toll- Free: 1-800-478-5429 e-mail: [email protected] web page: www.kicy.org October, 2011

Manager’s Mic KICY

s you read this, I will be return- Aing from an eight city Salmon Fundraising Dinner tour. This year, I asked the Norton Sound Seafood Processors to save me at least 500 pounds of Silver Salmon at the beginning of the season. It turns out that may not be enough. From Lincoln, Ne- braska to Willow Street, Jacob Foote closes up the transmitter. Pennsylvania, I cooked and served wild Harris Tech Installs Alaska salmon Dennis Weidler in a series of Energy Saving Device. fundraising events. For 12 years, we ith diesel fuel topping out at acc+ and the device allows the have worked really hard to rebuild W$5.50 a gallon in Nome, the carrier to actually be reduced KICY. The studios. The transmitter prospects appeared to be very bleak during times of silence. All the site. Staff housing. It all for the upcoming winter. No, we’re other stations in Alaska are needed...and in many cases still not all that concerned with filling our looking at Nome and your KICY needs major remodeling. But, today vehicle tanks as there are few places as the testing gets under way. We the need to travel more often, to to go. But those increases are applied are praying for a successful host more fundraising events and to directly to our home heating oil and completion of the test, minimal firmly secure the financial future of to the fuel used to produce electricity reduction of a listenable signal KICY is paramount. Heating oil is at the power plant. and great, great savings on our up to $5.50 a gallon. Our electric A few months ago, we petitioned monthly utility bills. rates are over 35 cents a kilowatt. the FCC for an experimental license One of the questions I had And even with the new green to allow the installation of technol- before installation was, ‘Can we technology, we use a lot of kilo- ogy which is new and not currently easily switch the circuitry out of watts. approved by the FCC. It was granted the system if listeners notice a If you have ever considered in one week. degraded signal?” The answer was making a donation to KICY, this On September 20, Jacob Foote, a a resounding yes. A simple toggle would be the time. October, with technician from the Harris Corpora- switch is provided to turn the 100% Sunday, and November and tion, the manufacturer of our 50,000 system on and off. December with year-end giving, watt transmitter, landed in Nome. Again, let me stress that this is a make this a critical time for us. The circuitry had arrived about a piece of make it or break it Please help us foresee a healthy week before so everything was technology. Please pray for great fiscal year in 2012. We thank you in awaiting his arrival. It’s called an success. advance for your support. A Prayer Request. For each of our volunteer staff members. George Bard Tim Tuggy wraps up the generator installation. Ian Coglan Luda Kinok Stand-by Power is Lena Mathlaw Standing By. Louis Murphy Penny Olanna es, Arctic Broadcasting Board The moment of truth came when Ymember, Fred Tuggy made we started the diesel engine for the Stephen Palmatier yet another return trip to Nome very first time. A quick touch of the Lon Swanson this year. This time he brought start button and the engine sprang to along his brother, Tim, two neices, life. Now, understand that this was Rolland Trowbridge Bekah and Hannah and a friend, an e-Bay purchase, shipped from Candace Weidler Rick Fodey from Wycliffe Associ- Portland. It had not run since it left ates in Tucson. the Lower 48. But run, it did. Dennis Weidler ABA Vice President, Terry Within a few minutes, it was power- Frances Whitmore Reynolds helped to coordinate the ing the transmitter building, but not acquisition of needed supplies the transmitter as we were in the from his home in Eagle River so process of installing the new power his is a wonderful time to be by the time the team arrived, all reducing system. Tserving at KICY. We are fully the items were on hand. By the next day, power had been staffed with hard-working and Diesel engine exhaust parts, fuel successfully applied to the modified extremely dedicated volunteers. and oil filters, power cables, transmitter and all went very well. Our listeners are so appreciative connectors, and ground wire were Oh sure, there were the little set- of our efforts to bring them God’s quickly put to work. backs one might encounter, espe- Word and Music. We used direct bury cables. In cially without an installation manual If you have ever thought about a fact they were designed to lay right for either the engine or the generator unique missions opportunity in the on the tundra. But we felt with itself. But, using that famous Tuggy middle of a land of great adventure, snowmachines, musk oxen, moose creativity and ingenuity, all came think about giving a year or more to and reindeer herds, we would together to complete the project. By KICY. reduce our risks as much a pos- 4:00 o’clock on Friday afternoon, the When Candace and I were called sible and bury the three cables generator had finished the final test to Nome, we thought five years connecting the transmitter and sequence powering the transmitter at would be a good long time. Now, generator building. a full 50,000 watts. after more than a dozen years, we Fuel was run from the recently Now when the fall and winter think of Nome as home. painted, 550 gallon tank to the V8 storms thrash the Alaskan coastline, Consider this an invitation to turbo diesel engine. It is reported we will pray for everyone’s safety and serve all of western Alaska and the to use 17 gallons an hour. Pray we thank God for this gift of standby from Nome with will not need to use it very much. power. Thanks to all of you! our ‘family”. Next Salmon Fundraising Can You Help? n our past issues of the Call Dinner Tour Scheduled. Letter, we mentioned that Luda et your Salmon January 21st through I had back surgery. Praise God, it Dinner Reser- Saturday the 28th. G was successful. Now, KICY has vation in today. The That’s 7 open dates. been receiving bills for the portions week before the Call General Man- of her surgery not covered by Covenant Midwinter ager, Dennis Weidler insurance. These costs, plus her Conference is filling up fast. So toll-free at 1-800-478-5429 and immigration attorney’s legal fees to far, Thursday, January 26 at make your church’s reservation. allow her to stay in Nome, now Ravenswood and Sunday, January Enjoy wild Alaska Salmon from amount to over $7,700. This is a 29th at Hinsdale Covenant are Norton Sound while you hear the significant, unexpected expense. already booked. That leaves many tales of service to our listen- Can you help? Any donation you available dates from Saturday, ers. can prayerfully make to this effort would be greatly appreciated. October 23rd is $7,712 100% Sunday. s your church participating? We Ihave a newly released, 2:15 CD- ROM with a narrated PowerPoint presentation. We can get one out in today’s mail. It’s not too late for you to encourage your church to be part of 100% Sunday. After all...it’s not 100% without you!

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Second Place for KICY Bathtub Race Team. t was a sunny but very breezy As is the tradition, the Crowley Trailing in a very distant third place ILabor Day as the Bathtub Race Lighterage Team had the advan- was the KNOM Team. And well at teams lined up in front of City tage with a customized, fiber- the back of the pack was the Hall on Front Street in Nome. glass bathtub complete with Rasmussen Red Bare’n Team. Former Mayor, Leo Rasmussen oversize bicycle tires. They won. “I think we could have won, if we verified all teams were accounted But right behind, in second had raced to Council’, stated Coglan. for, threw a few water balloons at place, finished the KICY Team. Of course the Village of Council is passersby and proceeded to 70 miles away and not really count down to the official accessible by road. start. Just a few minutes after “We honestly thought we high noon, they were off. could win this year”, added The KICY team, comprised Palmatier. “We trained hard of newcomers, Stephen for this race.” Palmatier and Ian Coglan There’s always next year and were joined by 7 year veteran, perhaps the Crowley Team will Luda Kinok seated in the be predisposed. Thanks to the soapy water, and new recruits KICY Team for a valiant Angela Kim and Pete The KICY Bathtub Race Team. effort. Butkevich.