MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY
All Veteran's Memorial Park, Cedar Rapids, IA

A look at the crowd...May 25, 2009

            
                        KMRY's Cary J. Hahn                                                         Guest Speaker, Janet Wilhem
                served as Master of Ceremonies                                        Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival Director

            
         Speaker, Congressman Dave Loebsack (D)                                                  American Veteran

KMRY worked around the record flood of 2008...

Our auxiliary transmitter, a Harris MW-1, operating in the garage at the KMRY Studios building on Blairs Ferry Road NE.  To the side, you can see other equipment - including our main digital transmitter - which was rescued before our main transmitter building was flooded.

Our auxiliary tower, which normally carries our microwave signal from the studios to our transmitter.  The white PVC pipe up the side of the building carries a wire, which is barely visible, extending to near the top of the tower.  Our coverage area is limited, especially at night, but we have managed to remain on the air!

Here is a picture taken from Edgewood Road, looking at our transmitter site on Ellis Road adjacent to the Cedar River.  This shot was taken Wednesday, June 11 ... well before the river crested.

...after the river crested and started going down...

...an aerial shot.  We do not know who took it or when...

Our first chance inside the transmitter building.  The old transmitter in the center is an "historic item," but has not been in use for years.  The red gas can atop a rack to the right side of the picture floated there ... from the floor!  The insulating material you see atop the old transmitter and over other equipment fell thru the ceiling as waters receded.  The historic transmitter, a Collins 20V-3, is now in its new home ... Winona, Minnesota ... where it will be refurbished and put back on the air in the amateur radio bands by Skip Green.  Here's some pictures from the move out of our ruined transmitter building...