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Subject: Radio tower makes for talkative neighborhood
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[Non-Linear Junctions Gone Wild. -jma]
http://www.vvdailypress.com/2006/114648790865751.html
Monday, May 1, 2006
Radio tower makes for talkative neighborhood
Residents complain radio station can be heard on
phones lines; demand tower be removed
By LEROY STANDISH Staff Writer
APPLE VALLEY If you give Kate O'Rourke a call
on her home phone listen closely, you might be
able to catch the weather report too.
The radio transmission tower behind her home has
been talking to her and those who call her ever
since she moved in a decade ago. The tower's
signal is so strong here that the radio station
can be heard over the telephone lines. For that
reason and more O'Rourke and some of her neighbors want it gone.
"I can listen to Barb Stanton on my phone,"
O'Rourke said. "Evidently it is louder for me
then the person calling me ... After ten years I have gotten used to it."
The tower was erected in 1956, during the glory days of radio.
"That is the original tower from KAVR (which
stands for Apple Valley Ranchos), from way back
when," Kathie Martin, town spokeswoman, said.
John Charles Thomas, a famous baritone, lived in
Apple Valley from the early 1950s until his death
in 1962. He was coowner of the station. Thomas
used to broadcast live from the Historic Apple Valley Inn's Blossom Room.
Born in Pennsylvania in 1891 Thomas was a car
nut, enjoyed golf, raced hydroplanes and raised
chickens and hogs. He also made stage appearances
from Broadway to London. He began his radio career in 1927 on NBC.
The tower, which has its roots deep in town
history, was recently the subject of some
neighborhood controversy. Singular wanted to
co-locate an antenna on the tower and build
another small building next to it to improve its
cellular communications network.
After some neighbors objected to the plan the
Apple Valley Planning Commission rejected
Singular from locating on the antenna, which is
now operated by the Clear Channel. Singular is
now considering build an antenna on a back hole
of the Apple Valley Country Club Golf Course.
O'Rourke and some of her neighbors think the
tower, despite its history, is inappropriate for
the neighborhood. "It kind of fell through the
cracks, it stayed here and all the houses built
up around it," she said. "It is on a residential
lot and it is a commercial venture it would be nice if they moved it."
Other neighbors say they don't mind the
free-standing antenna, besides, they say, it was
here first. "It's been there since before I moved
here and it's never bothered me," Pandora
Patterson, whose backyard abuts the large vacant
lot containing the tower, said. "It's part of Apple Valley."
Patterson, who enjoys the wildlife that wanders
through the field, had the telephone company
install filters on her phone line. The filters to
block out the radio transmissions. Other
neighbors say they just make sure to use a high quality phone.
Deborah Tar r, who lives across the street from
the tower and has no objections to it, said the
antenna is only noticeable when she's using an
inexpensive phone. "Sometimes you here the radio,
but it's just when there is a silence," she said.
"And only when we use a cheap phone."
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