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The Mama Jazz Show
Phyllis Campbell was known to WMUB listeners as Mama Jazz and after almost 30 years behind the mic she was a raspy, gravel-voiced Cincinnati-area institution. She only stepped down in 2006 because if...
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Radar Bounced Off the Sun
 We are all familiar with the moon bounce, but the "sun-bounce" is much more obscure accomplishment. The first successful attempt was transmitted on April 7th, 1959 at Stanford University. the...
View ArticleCar hits WZGV-AM
Marty Hurney was just wrapping up his afternoon show just before 3:00 PM at WZGV-AM, aka ESPN 730 in Charlotte, NC. He and his co-host Tom Sorenson were surprised to say the least. Two cars collided at...
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Radios That Work for Free II
After 40 years K.E. Edwards has written a new book "how to" book for Crystal Sets. His prior work remained the gold standard for almost 4 decades. You can get a copy here. You can read my review of his...
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Knights of the Gray Underwear
On admiral Byrd's second exhibition to Antarctica in 1934 he brought a team of 55 men and tons of equipment. That included a strange array of vehicles but also musical instruments and a radio...
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Electric Banana
I recently found this... Supposedly it was inspired by the work of an Andy Warhol. It's based on his painting of a banana that served as album art for the Velvet Underground. The Warhol Foundation has...
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The First FM Radio Ads
To be clear, these were not print advertisements for radio, these were advertisements within FM radio broadcasts. Edwin Armstrong patented Fm broadcasting in 1933 and built the first full-scale FM...
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Wilcke the Librarian
Audrey Wilcke was the first woman employed at WHIO-AM in Dayton, OH. She started in 1940. She was born in Toledo, OH and lived to be 95 years old and thus in 2012 was able to tell you about her famous...
View ArticleFRIDEN EC 1117 CALCULATOR on EBAY
I am selling my Singer Friden EC 117 Nixie tube calculator on Ebay [HERE]. It is an actual working unit from the 1970s. All of the Nixie tubes work without issue, and are made of pure awesome. See below:
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Radio in Fahrenheit 451
Reading makes you smarter. Decades ago when I first read Fahrenheit 451, I overlooked a radio reference in this classic American text. In in the Ray Bradbury book, the character, Beatty,a fire captain,...
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POMAR Code
 POMAR Code, n. "A code (part synoptic code and part aviation operations) in which certain observable meteorological elements and certain aircraft data are encoded and transmitted from transport...
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Somali Radio in Minneapolis
The nation of Somalia is over 8,500 miles away from Minneapolis, MN. The cities have nearly nothing in common. Minnesota is our the 32nd state. It was admitted into the United States in May of 1858....
View Article1963 Radio Recording
CoolDudeClem posted both sides of a 1963 recording of 1510 WMEX-AM. They were a Top 40 station with strong 50k watt signal based in Boston, MA. But reputedly the tides in the Neponset River would wreck...
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2700 POSTS!!!
We have now reached 2,700 posts. It's not as momentous as 2,500, but I'm all that closer to 3,000. It's clearly time for a night off. See you all Monday.
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CBGB Radio
CBGB wasn't just a club. Any punk rocker over 40 can rant about the clubs significance, BTU I mean that literally (not figuratively) was more than a music venue. It was also a record label. Then there...
View ArticleRadio CBGB (Part 2)
I found a few clips of the old Radio CBGB from the 90s. CBGB radio operated as a specialty program on WKDM-AM radio station operated from 1994 till 1996. It aired at 11:00 PM-3:00 AM Monday through...
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Radio Servicing Comic
The comic is from 1939, it's exact provenance unknown. Though the speaking character strangely reminds \me of J. Wellington Wimpy "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
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Radio King Kong
I really don't care for Leonard Maltin. He's a movie guy, when he moonlights in radio he's out of his element. We can discuss his syndicated radio program, "Leonard Maltin on Video" some other night....
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