WCQZ 930 AM has been part of Cedarlock Point for about as long as most people can remember. In 1995, the station is not a hobby or a nostalgia piece. It is a working public service and a working business. When it goes silent, people notice, and advertisers notice harder. The station campus sits back from town on rural land, surrounded by trees and damp ground that never fully dries out. The original studio and production building still does most of the daily work. A later admin building handles sales, records, and management. The transmitter building is separate, several yards away, like a small outpost that never gets to sleep. Tonight, Coast and County ran like it always does until a caller came on with genealogy talk and old record fragments. They sounded prepared, not nervous, like they had done it before. Big D let them read a phonetic line from a packet, and it went out over the air. Nothing happened in the moment. The show moved on. The board stayed clean. The meters stayed steady. Later, the station started doing things that do not fit normal failure. Dead air that is too complete. Essential transmit gear switched off without a hand near it. Audio layers that ride your chain during recoveries, like something is learning how your station speaks. At first it is just sound. Then it starts to touch the building. You are the person who keeps WCQZ on the air. If this is a technical problem, you can solve it. If it is not, you still have to keep the carrier up long enough to prove what is happening, and long enough to find the reason it began.