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Old 12-30-2011, 06:37 PM
 
Location: Texas
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mukluk messages are so cool! KIAM radio! i left one for a friend who's out there in the wilderness for the holidays. anyone else ever send one?
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Old 12-30-2011, 07:08 PM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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Yes, listen to them often as well. There is some other stations that do it too. When you live out away from town, that is how you find out what is going on with you neighbor twenty five miles down the trail.

Life line of information for them!
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Old 12-30-2011, 07:20 PM
 
Location: Point Hope Alaska
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Yup Kotz & Barrow do the same thing and I believe also in Glenallen!

Love to listen to that stuff. Radio is a blast to listen to in remote places. A different type of (better) world!
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Old 12-30-2011, 07:26 PM
 
Location: Texas
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sheesh i am gonna have to stay up real late tonite to hear my mukluk message! this is way too cool!
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Old 12-30-2011, 08:06 PM
 
Location: Palmer
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I used to know a dog named 920. His owner kept missing his messages because of course out on the trapline you tend to not watch the clock. He could never remember the time for "caribou clatter" so he finally named one of his dogs 920 because caribou clatter always came on at 9:20 PM
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Old 12-30-2011, 08:10 PM
 
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caribou clatter? what radio station is that on? i know mukluk messages is on KIAM. what fun names!
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Old 12-30-2011, 09:30 PM
 
Location: Palmer
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caribou clatter? what radio station is that on? i know mukluk messages is on KIAM. what fun names!
I don't remember, it was a long time ago. Most of the stations that broadcast to the bush had those services. That was before telephones.

OH...I looked it up. KCAM in Glennallen
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Old 12-30-2011, 10:26 PM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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When I was a kid they use to do it out of Anchorage, can't remember what they called it, but I use to love listening to it on my transistor radio, it would come on when I had to go to bed, so I would lay there listening to the messages and imagine what it was like out in the wilderness when I was eight or nine years old.

Can't remember if it was KHAR or KBYR back then.
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Old 12-30-2011, 10:43 PM
 
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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KYUK AM has a message board called Tundra Drums. You call in and leave a message and it gets aired four times a day. They also have a live call in show to do Birthday wishes called the Birthday Line.
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Old 12-30-2011, 11:01 PM
 
Location: Point Hope Alaska
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I was living in Glenallen in 94 & 95, right beside Pump station 11

However; I used to have to travel up and down the line and spend time in other pumpstations.

When I was away; I had a friend from Boston who would babysit my boys while I worked remote.

One day as I left one of the pump stations I made a call to the 'message' board of the local radio station in the Glennallen area.

When I arrived home and the radio was on. my babysitter heard his name mentioned with a short message on the radio and he sure freaked out.

How do they know I am here?? He was so puzzled for the longest time!!
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