What did his tag say, I don't remember. I know people who still hang out with pizza and TV like that, even though, like smoking, it's recognized as being harmful to health. Boomby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
Great tips Dood, especially with so many transmitters and receivers using one master oscillator for all bands. If that drifts then everything is off. I do remember the analog TV frequency standards, someone wrote a construction article for one in possibly Popular Electronics, with a loop antenna that picked up the 15.75 khz horizontal frequency from a television, which was supposed to be sourcby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
I think that pirates did lug huge gear into the woods to broadcast, nothing like getting 100 watts out from the middle of nowhere, but a big effort though. Why not enjoy a nice hike and see the beauty of the forest while you broadcast? Thanks Tha Doodby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
Wow, unsolicited testimonial! Really, thank you so much Pat. Yeah, when other small transmitters were coming out, I'd joke with friends that the Radio Animal Grenade was 'the original, and the best'.. :) I remember it, people were using heavy tube transmitters or expensive transceivers, and I don't think there was that much building or experimentation going on at the time either. I also thinkby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
Bring back the A*C*E*.. :) I think it would be funny if there was one edition of the A*C*E put out a year, just as a gesture or nod to great times. I liked all of those mags, with good memories of getting the latest issue of something and reading the whole thing in one session. ACE and PopComm were favorites, and any electronics magazine like Popular Electronics, Electronics Now, Radio Electroby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
Here's my copy of what I found on my cassette, recorded about 1983 or '84. I used to use it on my stations back then. The Flac file is the full lossless copy of what I have on this one cassette, and the mp3s are split into easier to use cuts. If I can find more I'll add it to the archive. Boomerby Radio Animal - The Swap Shop
I like vinyl records too, that's a nice stack, wow! Records have come back in a big way, and people are doing all vinyl radio shows for distinction, and to get an analog feeling back. We hear that Britney Spears hasn't been singing live in concert for years, only lip sync, and everyone is high on Autotune, so records can bring back some of the reality to music, it's all in how you play it.. :)by Radio Animal - The Swap Shop
I know, working with tubes to that level is unique these days, it's beautiful stuff, and he built a nice website to showcase it. It touched something in me and I sent him a picture of one of my old rigs made with dual 6L6s, all recycled parts except for the plate current meter. Tube purists might object to the transistor modulator section, but I think the hybrid approach is a good one. The modby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
John, get with the times, every kid in college has a turntable now! You're at risk of falling behind on these technological advancements. I have a copied cassette of at least some of those bits, I used to play that on my pennywhistle local station all the time in the mid-1980s. The bits I remember were Whitecross Speed Reading with Rudy Du Baker, 'I have a gun, it's pointed at my head', Tell mby Radio Animal - The Swap Shop
With letters I'm unsure of, in webmail I right click and save the mail as text, .txt, and then read that in something like Notepad, where nothing can execute. Jack Jones' mailing is legit, it seems to be just a pirate name, and the site is real, and it's a nice little site. I wrote back and suggested that some of the valves he's using in the transmitter might be harder to find for USA buildersby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
I want to thank Cosmik for posting that aircheck of WHYP from December 24, that sounded like a great signal and sound quality! I've heard music broadcasts from them before, but not a special retrospective program like that. I was hearing the announcer telling the back story of WHYP and its origins on 1530 AM, the voice of James, and how he left records in the run-out groove playing static forby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
Excellent man, the frequency 5110 is usually strong here! I didn't see this the first time to catch last night's broadcast, but I should be able to hear it most weeks. Glad that you went for the airtime. Boomerby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
Add the Death Penalty, race relations or who is the best rock band. Boomerby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
This was an interesting article, I don't think I've posted it before. Do people in the broadcast industry really feel this way about pirates? I've known people in broadcasting who had their own bootleg stations at home as teens and found they liked it so much that they went on to commercial radio - and are still in the business years later! Usually they don't advocate people taking up piratby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
If there are problems, maybe you could copy the text and put it in a post, or if the FRN has a file area, upload it there. The FRN used to have a file area on the old site, it was separate from the forums and fun to look at, though kind of neglected. When I didn't have any of my radio pictures on line, and couldn't attach pictures to e-mails because I was on a TV box browser, I'd refer my newby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
With the net and its vast cornucopla of sound, I don't really need to dumpster dive stations, unless it would be for old time's sake. Back then it was a necessity and a great source, my station was hungry for audio every week. You remember, 'The Night Calls', that's great! I've always loved those loops, playing different ones from several tapes at the same time, Jamming. I made them on an openby Radio Animal - The Workshop
Wow, that's colored by hand, (or paw) like old time family portrait photos used to embellished with color from an artist's hand. Thanks for putting that up. Boomerby Radio Animal - QSLs
For so long, we did that too. Maybe 'retro' will find us wrapped up in tape once again.by Radio Animal - The Workshop
Sonos software audio processing. I've been interested in software audio processing in radio for a number of years, after reading about it in places like Radio World magazine as the techniques were being developed and refined. I've known something about analog processing, and how hard it can be to get a tight and clean sound, but this new fangled digital stuff promised great peak control and beby Radio Animal - The Workshop
Same here in Western PA with 1250 WDDZ, 5kw, Radio Disney IDs and music on October 1. Boomby Radio Animal - Medium Wave Logs
Finally someone from the radio industry is putting their foot down about reception and audio quality issues! From: Subject: Meeting with FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai and Mr. Peter Doyle, Chief of the Audio Division of the FCC Media Bureau at the offices of the FCC in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23, 2014. To All AM Broadcasters in the USA: Kintronic Lby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
That's great, I thought Frn.net was gone! I see that going there redirects to here now. I don't know what kind of machinations have gone on in the background to allow this to happen, but yes, thank you to the parties involved! Boomerby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
Local community focus might be the best, it's something networks, satellite, most stations and the net don't offer right now. There's nothing like a station right in your community, tuned in to what's going on and ready to broadcast it. Daytimers do seem to not be the greatest thing for the AM band, and they seemed to be important at one time when people couldn't get enough radio, and some ofby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
To me, the thing NAB wanted was more channels to get a leg up on cable TV and offer competition. That was always a problem with analog, not as much space, especially on VHF, and high startup costs for any full power station. I didn't think about rural areas being shut out of signals because of digital, but it has to be true. I've visited people in the mountains who had no clear analog signals,by Radio Animal - General radio discussion
Very cool, and it seems like it's newer as a 'Super-Heterodyne', if indeed it has an IF amp strip in it. Most radios in the early days were TRF types with variometers, variable coils with one coil inside of the other to tune. Superheterodyne radios put most of the amplification and selectivity in a strip of fixed tuned circuits and allowed one knob tuning. Superhet was a huge breakthrough inby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
His low band 160 meter antenna system is built like a mediumwave broadcast station's with that kind of radial ground plane! If you had a licensed AM station, that's what you'd be putting in. An interesting thing is how the 4 T-sections around the antenna are used to direct the signal. The sections are just part of the guy wires holding the tower up. For a directional array, broadcast stationsby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
I like it that they have a full power AM and decent power FM for a college station. There's nothing like that where I live, but we have at least one school with AM carrier current that's supposedly still on the air. Boomerby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
I think that AM has to change in a few ways, and those involved aren't really working on it, they're kind of just letting things happen rather than fight. I'm not sure why broadcasters aren't more political, pushing to have AM stereo when FM got stereo in the early 1960s, or standing their ground for a stereo system when it did finally happen. If all of the systems were acceptable, why didn't AMby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
Great public relations, man! That should help to show Radio World listeners that pirates are real, and we're all a little closer than we might think as radio folk. Reading that, pro radio people might feel a little more when some forceful action happens against a pirate station, not just say 'oh it's just a pirate, who cares.' Boomerby Radio Animal - General radio discussion
Good food for thought John, a nice read. I can see why the FCC wouldn't want a citizen's brigade to look after the airwaves, it would make a mess of things. I hope that Bob mended his ways, I thought that Monitoring Times was a pretty decent magazine. It seems to me that in the long run, the idea of citizen snitches and hobbyists telling on each other would create a climate of hyper vigilanceby Radio Animal - General radio discussion