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WRTI AD
It's a rare day that I find a radio advert in a print publication.When I do I like to scan and post, collating the data slowly looking for a pattern...
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Radio Guantanamo Bay
It is a somewhat awkward fact for the news reels that there has been a U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for more than 100 years. The centennial anniversary of the base was actually in 1998...
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The Falkland Islands Invasion - LIVE!
Though they lie off the coast of Argentina, the British Government has always felt closer to the Falkan Islands than their 7,000 mile commute might imply. To their credit, the islands were probably...
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Software Defined Retail
Your radio no longer needs a dial. Things have progressed to a point where you can build a radio on a chip the size of a pencil point and configure the software that controls it at will. The Idea is...
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Music Vendor & Cash Box Mazines
Music Vendor used to be a top tier music industry trade magazine. It existed for only 18 years under that name and then became Record World. It began as Music Guild, which was first published on a...
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The Clitheroe Kid
It was the longest running sitcom on British radio. The Clitheroe Kid was a BBC radio comedy program. the protagonist was a irreverent but mostly wholesome schoolboy in a northern England town....
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Weatherfax Maps by Radio
There are people who fax weather maps via radio. You probably don't even have a fax anymore. Who faxes anymore? Apparently the answer to that rhetorical question is the coast guard. There is a coast...
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K-HIGH, WEED, KBUD and KBNS
Yes, these are Marijuana-themed radio stations. This week in Denver, CO 94.1 "Mile High Sports Radio"KCKK flipped to KBUD, also known as "Smokin' 94.1" In March, the station and its AM signal at 1550...
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George Gimarc & Johnny Rotten
Will you stop blogging about the Sex Pistols? Just one more. In the 1990s, John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, hosted a radio segment called "Rotten Day." It was a syndicated daily distributed by Premier...
View ArticleGoogle has a Radar Chip
The ATAP team at Google I/O recently unveiled a radar chip. The chip is about the size of your thumbnail and functions as a radar detector. It can detect small, and even subtle hand motions which may...
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RESURRECT MUSIC ON PLANET EARTH
In 2013 91.7 WKDU assembled a mix-tape for the first time in two decades (ostensibly.) But think of the time period. It's 2015. The audio CD debuted in 1982, the CD-R in 1990. That was 25 years ago. A...
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Camelot on the Lizard Penninsula
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station is a large telecommunications site located on Goonhilly Downs. From that name you probably already guessed this is in the UK. Specifically it's in Cornwall on the...
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Radio Tentoonstelling
Tentoonstelling is the Dutch word for "Exposition." That was the first clue. I Googled it and found a large number of commemorative postage stamps issued by the Netherlands post office. The real photo...
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N-rays are Homeopathic X-rays
N-rays aren't real. Consider this an abject lesson in bad science. The N in N-rays stands for the Nancy-Universite in Lorraine France. In 1903, French physicist Rene-Prosper Blondlot was trying to...
View ArticleFriden EC 1117
I got to play with one of these recently and it's fascinating. The Friden EC 1117 was manufactured by Singer. It debuted in 1971. Instead of a more modern LCD display or a cathode ray tube, it used...
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STUPID DJ TRICKS: Part 27
This isn’t the first case that a radio station prank contest went this way. According to the FCC, in 1999 102.1 KPRR in El Paso held a crooked contest. They told listeners that if they called in and...
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STUPID DJ TRICKS: Part 28
In 2014 the radio station CKMP burned $5,000 CAD. Responses ranged from outrage to disbelief. They were not the first to get a bit of press attention for burning money. In 1994 the band KLF burned one...
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STUPID DJ TRICKS: Part 29
Plastic is flammable, which makes sense since it's made from petroleum—oil. Foam rubber is generally made of polyurethane, is still plastic and also made from oil. They were first invented by Otto...
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STUPID DJ TRICKS: Part 30
This one reaches a whole new level of stupid. Aaron Klein is the host of Aaron Klein Investigative Radio. It's broadcast on 970 WNYM-AM in New York, and on 990 WNTP-AM in Philadelphia. Klein describes...
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