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WEEI at Fenway Park
Suffice it to say... WEEI-AM has a special relationship with Fenway Park, much in the way that the City of Boston has a special relationship with Fenway Park. WEEI goes way back in Boston. They signed...
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Traveling
I'm traveling alot this week. The wifi is terrible on Amtrak, so no posts for a bit. I will be back Monday, assuming I don't eat too many bacon, egg and cheese sandwitches at Lamberts and go native.
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WBAU and Public Enemy
WBAU no longer exists. Some people might argue the same thing about Public Enemy. Their two tales become entwined in 1979. WBAU was located at 90.3 FM under a day share agreement with WHPC at Nassau...
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The Red Balloon Funtenna
This sounds like science fiction, possible but improbable. But the idea already moved from the hypothetical to field trials. Security researchers at Manhattan startup Red Balloon Security, have...
View ArticleTransistor Radio Hack!
Well this looks fun. Thank you to Make Magazine post posting this one on YouTube.
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The Schwann Record & Tape Guide
In 1985 the RIAA honored Bill Schwann for "creating and perpetuating the nation's definitive record and tape catalog." They were referring to the Schwann Record & Tape Guide. They got in at the...
View ArticleAssembling Transistor Radios
This is a fun one "Assembling Transistor Radios." It's a short film (2.5 minutes) on assembling TR-1 transistor radios. These were the first consumer transistor radio made at the Regency factory in...
View ArticleRCA Victor Transistor Radio TV Commercial
A RCA Victor transistor portable in a guaranteed non-breakable impact case... this spot ran back in 1959.
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Ted Hawkins and KTYM
Ted Hawkins was 'discovered' several times by different promoters, producers, agents, song pluggers, and radio men. The most important was probably in 1971 when a DJ names Johnny Jr. heard him busking...
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The Other Blonde Bombshell at KGB
I don't mean the Russian KGB ( Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti ) I am referring to 101.5 KGB-FM in San Diego. From the beginning of time, one of the virtues of radio is that the talent is faceless...
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A Radio for Leibowitz
"The similar tidbits in the museum were connected together too—not in the form of a necklace, but as a complex and rather disorderly maze in the bottom of a small metal box, exhibited as: "Radio...
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Labor Day
Today is Labor day and in recognition of who really does the work around here... I am taking the day off. You can read more about the holiday here.
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I hate cats
Unsurprisingly, the station was no longer on air. For the record this cat was installed in total disregard for OSHA and IEEE standards.Courtesy of Thom at http://afrtsarchive.blogspot.com/
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Guinness Book World Radio Records
I read recently that Joe Madison had set a record with a 52 hour consecutive broadcast. XM claimed that "the broadcast is officially registered with the Guinness World Record Organization." The wording...
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More Obscure Filters
After you get through Low pass filters, High pass filters, Band pass filter, and Band Reject filters you get into some obscure highly specialized hardware. So, there's also SAW Filters, BAW filters,...
View ArticleLondon Underground - Pirate Radio Documentary
This pirate radio documentary from 1999 is focused on London and it's underground music scene which is and always has been linked with pirate radio. I've never neared so much in 25 minutes. It names...
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AMTOR and SITOR
AMTOR (Amateur Teleprinting Over Radio) is a type of telecommunications system consisting of two or more teleprinters. It's is a specialized form of RTTY protocol known commercially as SITOR (Simplex...
View ArticleThe History of DJ: Pirate Radio Ships
There is a lot more to this documentary. But these are two segments are all about pirate radio, and that's the part we all care about most. In the whole of radio what's more interesting than that?Part...
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Hacking Deep Sea Cables
There has been an arms race for over a century now between hardened wired systems and encrypted wireless systems. Typically, a closed wired system can be safely assumed to be secure. If your system...
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