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STUPID DJ TRICKS: Part 31
You all heard this story two weeks ago. But in the hubub you forgot that this was just another attention-seeking DJ interested in ratings. All claims to the contrary, about starting a discussion......
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The Planters Pickers
At first, all I found was a single program announcement in an issue of the The Evening Independent newspaper dating to November 19th 1929. "Southern melodies, talking picture theme songs and negro...
View ArticleThe Endless Extension Cord
103.7 FM WXSS "Kiss" in Milwaukee posted this video and I had to re-post. Every engineer at one time or another has had to do this. It's 10:00 PM. Do you know where your extension cord is?That awkward...
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SITOR and AMTOR
I had no idea this existed. SITOR (SImplex Teletype Over Radio) is a radio system for broadcasting text messages. Apparently Twitter isn't far reaching enough. Though it uses the same frequency-shift...
View ArticleNear Field Communications
Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." It's a line often quoted in science fiction, and it's broadly treated as a truism. I thought of...
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The End of Portable Radio Stations
Until 1928, portable radio stations were permitted. The idea flies in the face of everything you currently know about radio. Today the notion of even a class A radio station moving from city to city...
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The Freed Eisemann Orchestradians
The Freed-Eisemann Radio Corp was formed in 1922 in New York City to manufacture and sell radios. It's main office was located at 255 Fourth Avenue which if you know the area is just off the South...
View ArticleHam Radio Now Podcast
What is the difference between a podcast, a vidcast and a webcast? No really. Whichever of those three things this is, the Ham Radio Now program is great. Hosted by Gary Pearce (KN4AQ) the show...
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Radio in the Hive
Transmitters get smaller and smaller. The smallest transmitters today are measured in atoms and whole devices fit inside a pencil point. The problem has become the power source or the battery.You can...
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ProxyHam
If any of my readers are headed to Def Con 2015 in August please check this out. Ben Caudill, a researcher for the consultancy Rhino Security Labs, will be there on August 6th unveiling ProxyHam....
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The History of Radio in the Philippines
Edmundo A. Reyes wrote the book The History of Amateur Radio in the Philippines. His original call sign was KA10R, his last one was DU10R. The book is both a history of Ham radio in the Philippines,...
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Drug Cartel Radio
I've read references to "cartel radio" before. Usually the headline implies a lot more than is going on. But in 2013 Vice News reported that the Los Zetas Drug Cartel had their own radio network. But...
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Miles From Its Licensed Location
Before GPS, it was more difficult to plant a radio tower in an exact location. It could be done, but it required a bit more math. So it is unsurprising that a tower and therefore an antenna may be a...
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PBI RNAV
"In general, the FAA chooses names that are noncontroversial," said FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown. I think that's a good policy in general for a federal agency. So it comes as no surprise to anyone who...
View ArticleAustralian WWII Radio
This is a very novel program. It's about radio training and usage by Australian military services in WWII. It was produced by John Scanlan via the State Library of Queensland with funding from the...
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Anonymous Hacks Radio Station
Anonymous is not a single person or static set of people. It's an identity used by a "legion" of people. IUd' stop short of describing their actions as having a pattern, but perhaps a common theme. On...
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World’s Smallest FM Radio Transmitter
I think this title has changed hands several times already this century. In 2005 we were already down to the the head of a pin [SOURCE] But I think this one stands out as being best smallest and best...
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Wi-Fi Backscatter
I have heard over the years, of radio experimenters, hams, and hackers that converted radio waves into electrical power. The concept is not complicated. You receive radio waves and instead of consuming...
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Bilingual Battle Royale at KFUN
Currently 1230 KFUN-AM is owned by Baca Broadcasting, LLC, and airs mostly country music, but carries a fair number of local shows including Spanish and oldies music programming. They don't appear in...
View ArticleThe Hindenburg Disaster Broadcast
Hindenburg Disaster is understood as a historical event, but few know it was also historical for it's radio news coverage. Herbert Morrison and engineer Charlie Nehlsen (Neilsen) were assigned by radio...
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