Saturday, September 08, 2007
From The Forum
| posted by frederick jodry visit the forum Amateur Radio`s the whole thing for the Family or the Individual. Plenty of us well- glutted listeners think of ourselves as the cat`s ass of the lucky fun crowd in the toss and catch world of electrons, and Lord knows, us Broadcasters think we walk home after work with Fire- engine red socks glued on from the factory, too, but there`s an even better game to play next to the railroad tracks with all the other cats. Amateur Radio. Looking at the bottom half of Shortwave for a moment, Stations come in about the same signal strength, anywhere between 1 1/2 miles away to 400 miles away, obviously, really strong if local groundwave, or if long, dropping off quickly until the next ionosphere`s bounce fills in weaker. This main first bounce is a covenient enough distance to drive to, at least in the USA if you want to meet your contacts. There are two main types of Shortwave Amateur Radioists, "DX Hounds" and "Ragchewers". DX Hounds tend to be the ones that are unmarried or have no children and the hobby tends to be that of making lots of long- distance, hence, "DX", brief contacts on the top half of Shortwave, feverishly and competitively, and Ragchewers normally have long worthwhile or extra worthwhile talks and roundtables with each other and to much glee, entertainment, and education to each other and Shortwave Listeners, whether, Family, or the Individual. In fact, looking at the FCC laws for commercial radio use at Broadcast Stations, (in transmitter to studio links, studio to transmitter links, and intercity relays), it is illegal for the Station Operators to make longer than necessary telephone contact on the commercial radio. While the front reason is to be conservative of the commercial radio resource, the real reason is because mad numbers of watchers and listeners would get or make receivers for these commercial frequencies and listen to the Station Operators Ragchew their armchair and other sage opinions and gaffs about the programs, on, and how they are made. This can, of course, often be more interesting and educational than the the actual programs, themselves. Likewise, amongst Amateur Radioists, those who make their own equipment and maintain them, often thinking of future owners, are "best of show". Morse Code, (CW), Operators, and Amplitude Modulation users are the poorest formally educated, poorest incomed, but most resourceful and self educated amongst the Amateur Radioists. Above or below, I provide you a web link that backgrounds inside some of the world of the Amplitude Modulation Hams. As for CW, have you learned and taught the Morse code? This ends this first and scrappy lesson inside the world of Amateur Radio. http://www.amfone.net/. . . index, Forums Amateur Radio for Family or Individual http://www.amfone.net/. . . index, Forums Amateur Radio for Family or Individual |
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Friday, September 07, 2007
Ozzy Becomes Radio 1 DJ
Ozzy Osbourne and Sir Paul McCartney will DJ on BBC Radio 1 to mark the station's 40th anniversary. |
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Get The New Radio Informer Toolbar
| Are you tuned in. The radio informer has a toolbar which goes right up there next to your web browser .The tool bar updates you where ever you are on the web with radio news from the radio informer site and it has radio links,listen to radio,feeds or leave and read messages and it has safety blockers,information ticker,news ticker ,weather info all from the radio informer toolbar thats sits near your web browser.It automatically gets updated by me with the radio informer site feed included to keep you updated with new content on the site. Click here for information and to download it |
A Look Back At Radio: WMR
Well i thought i will have a short look back at radio that came on to the radio but not heard of for a while: I listened to this station during 2004 and 2005 where they were broadcasting not just weekends but during the weeks they broadcasted on 5815 khz transmissions ended 2005 and according to their site the future for WMR isonce again uncertain. They have a jingle page so you can listen to wmr idents. Check the stations history Site: http://www.wmr.dk/ |
Sunday, September 02, 2007
MV Baltic Radio - Birthday programme
| Credit: Email From Tom Taylor Date - 2nd of September 2007 Time - 1200 to 1300 utc On - 6045 khz review: Since 3 years we have been on the air each first Sunday of the month on short wave. Three years we have been broadcasting information from Mecklenburg- Western Pomeranian and music, which you can not hear on the normal mainstream Radio stations today. In our anniversary programme we hold reviews and play music which ran over our station in the last 3 years. Of course we will give also information from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Good listening and have a lot of fun. |
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