Wow….ya never know what’ll happen next. Most of you have been seeing the severe storms heading through Western Pennsylvania. Unfortunately last night KDIK 570’s main transmitter high atop Magnum hill in Ft. Magnum, PA took a nasty lightning strike. Technician Ho Lee Fuk was slightly injured in the conflagration but is recovering nicely and is expected to be back at work in the next week.

Chief Engineer Long Wang has advised our staff that 2 of the high power triodes in the transmitter’s final stage were destroyed. He’s ordered them and they should arrive shortly. The bad news is clear channel 570 KDIK AM is expected to be off the air for 2 weeks; returning to service just before the end of the month. Unfortunately that means that we’ll be unable to broadcast Saturday night’s performance from the Penn-Wells ballroom in Wellsboro, PA on our clear channel coast to coast hookup. Sorry to disappoint those who wanted to get some Swingin’ Dick over the weekend.

But for those who ARE in the area it’ll be full throttle Swingin’ Dick at 7pm Saturday in beautiful downtown Wellsboro !

Wang will be working on getting it up as soon as possible, and has provided a lower power transmitter that’ll be operating on CB channel 23 (27.255 MHz AM) for the broadcast which given favorable atmospherics and a good antenna might be heard for those dedicated denizens who can’t attend the live performance but can’t help but want some Swingin’ Dick this Saturday night !