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The Voice That Returned: Weather Report From a Dead Station
Freitag, 21. August 2026 · 20 min
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The Voice That Returned: Weather Report From a Dead Station
A calm woman's voice came out of the trees at a.m. on March 9, 2019, from a small orange radio tuned to 91.7 FM - a frequency that had been dead air for eleven months. Who was broadcasting, how did a damaged backup transmitter and a live but unused breaker combine, and why did the signal return just after a man "forgot to undo" a decision?
In this episode, we tell the story of WKCT, the small community station that went silent after a fire and the chain of mundane events that produced an impossible-sounding moment - a weather report heard at Cutler Creek from a station that had been off the air. What exactly lined up to make that voice come back?
Date: March 9, 2019
Location: Cutler Creek, Teller County, southern Illinois
Station: WKCT, 91.7 FM
Fire date: April 22, 2018
Restoration estimate: $87,000
- The voice was heard at a.m. on March 9, 2019, from a small orange radio on a sycamore root.
- WKCT had been off the air for eleven months following a fire on April 22, 2018.
- The fire destroyed the main amplifier stack and signal processor and left a restoration gap of $47,000 after insurance.
- A backup transmitter was borrowed on January 2019 and returned on February 26, 2019, logged as non-functional with a cracked power supply housing.
- A breaker for the equipment closet was repaired and live again on February 2, 2019, twenty-four days before the transmitter was returned.
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