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New York SCA Subcarrier Radio Stations
The FCC's description of the service is a bit dry"A subcarrier, known also as Subsidiary Communications Authority or SCA, is a separate audio or data channel that is transmitted along with the main...
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Humbard Family Radio Favorites
The first print reference I found to the Humbard family was in the Indianapolis Times, September 5th, 1949. The Humbard family was performing at 4:30 PM on 1260 WFBM. I didn't immediately connect them...
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Tropical Fish Capacitors
Tropical Fish Capacitors are one of those obscure electronic components really only known about in the DIY electronics community. Even people with a passing knowledge of electronics likely wouldn't...
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Another Nielsen Radio Survey (Part 3)
Since the second letter arrived the diary has also landed; I've not scanned any of it yet. But at first glance, it looks very similar to the last one. [LINK] This communication came with five crisp...
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Another Nielsen Radio Survey (Part 4)
The diary has arrives and even since that date another reminder letter and I think at least three phone call reminders have come. I got one on my voicemail and I hung up on the other two. I thought...
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Whistling J. Donald Wilson
Our story starts with two radio announcers born only a few years apart with similar names, both working as radio announcers on national networks. Donald Harlow "Don" Wilson and John Donald Wilson. With...
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Before Metal was Metal
I had a chance discovery in the book Another Life: And, The House on the Embankment by Yuri Trifonov. It's actually two books, urban novellas in the Russian povest genre. It's translated from Russian...
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Slingshot # 134
I am pleased to report that my mad midnight scribblings are back on actual newsprint. Thank you to the Slingshot Collective for keeping that dream alive. I wrote a few zine reviews which they...
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News and Reviews 2021
We are now in year 16, and I stand by my statement from 5 years ago... "it seems both impossible and inadvisable to have gone so far down the rabbit-hole." This blog began in April of 2005. As of this...
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Chanson d'automne Radio
Drôle de guerre (2008) I'd like to start in 1940 before we rewind to 1866. Radio Londres was a radio station broadcast from 1940 to 1944 by the BBC in London to Nazi-occupied France. It broadcast...
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Radio Artifact # 472
This is a schedule from the radio station 90.1 WECS from the late 1990s. being abotu 20 years old it's no surprise to see a few changes. Following a national trend with NPR affilates, the afternoon...
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Montgomery Ward Airline 62-254
I may have bitten off more than I can chew. This is a Montgomery Ward Airline 62-254 radio. This superheterodyne tabletop model was made in 1936 - 193. Notably it does not run on 110v AC power, but was...
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The first illegal satellite launch in history
Normally when I read about LoRa, I am reading a story about IoT devices in a smart-home installation, and always in the future-tense. As of late a few LoRa devices have made it to market, mostly...
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Quarantine Takeover on WLOY
I'm doing a program over at WLOY that's airing tonight. You can check it out HERE
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Glaskarten Archiv
Kait Moon aka DJ Glas has dug into her archive and posted a few episodes of her old radio program on KAOS some 20 years ago. The audio quality is actually really good, maybe even better than the new...
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Jack Ruby and KLIF
Anyone with any level of interest in the Kennedy assassination from the student, to the historian, to the conspiracy theorist knows who Jack Ruby is. But many of them won't know anything about 1190...
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Herman Darewski Conducts
Herman Edward Darewski was a composer of what was then called "light music". Lets take a quick detour to explain what that actually was. These are short orchestral pieces, often just 3 or 4 minutes in...
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The Blisard Brothers
Don and Norman Blisard were the Blisard Brothers. One promotional photo shows them in cowboy hats with a mandolin and a guitar standing in front of a microphone bearing a KUOA badge. Their parents...
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RADIO EUZKADl
It's very difficult to write about the Basque as an outsider not speaking Euskara. Because very few people speak Euskara there's very little editing to information webpages. Even within the rigid...
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Who the hell is Bill Thailing?
Bill Thailing was a long time fan, trader, collector and dealer of comics, newspapers, radio programs, magazines, pulp magazines, books and ephemera in Cleveland, OH. He published his own catalog for...
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