FROM THE top of the KSDP radio tower, 200 feet in the air, station manager Austin Roof could see nearly all of Popof Island, a scrap of tundra surrounded by sea at the base of the Aleutian chain. But the picturesque view was not what he was thinking about as 25-mile-per-hour winds bellowed in his ears. "It was blowing like a son of a gun," he said. The lines he was hoping to use to hoist a 75-pound antenna to the top of the tower were flying out of reach. Sand Point, a village of about 1,000 and the island's only settlement, lay below him. "I don't get paid extra for this," he thought.
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