These are two staffers of WEGL, the campus radio station that I haunted for four years.

Beyond these it is the generic group shots of shaggy students, so we'll make fun of the technology.

The lower photo has the oldest control board I've ever seen, and I once worked on one so old that the manufacturers were still signing their names on the guts of the machine as a stamp of pride.

The mic looks familiar though.

The yearbook mentions by name all of the specialty shows WEGL broadcast at the time. There were many, as there are today, the non-commercial station being a music-box programming mix. One show from this period remains on the air, or at least shares the name, of a show I worked on and that existed until very recently. The rest of the show names are alien to me. Students also broadcast NPR from the transmitter's lofty perch atop Haley Center.

Started in 1971 after much debate, WEGL went on the air with 10 massive watts of power at 91.1 on the FM dial. In 1975 the broadcast radius with a power increase to 380 watts. In 1977 they began broadcasting in stereo.

Today WEGL has a 3,000 watt transmitter (a 1988 upgrade). Sometimes you can pick it up from 40 miles outside of Auburn. Some nights it is difficult to tune in with the transmitter in view.

In the brick buildings of campus most every other signal is choked out, but you can clealry hear WEGL and the Pakistani goat herder music for which it is famous. I could get into the why's, but you really want to know about the equipment in the top photograph. I've no idea. Never seen anything like it, and I once worked in a station that still did everything with patch cords.

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