Radio

From this month’s issue of Popular Communications:
Authorities in Zimbabwe have banned wind-up receivers, a favorite among non-governmental organizations seeking to promote access to information in rural areas. Their presence has spawned listening clubs accused of tuning in on “illegal” foreign news bulletins broadcast on shortwave.  Batteries are almost unavailable in Zaimbabwe.  Along with satellite dishes, [...]

There have been a lot of cases throughout history where certain radio systems had strange and unintended consequences for people and equipment nearby.  Most recently BPL (Broadband over Power Line) has raised a lot of hackles because it has been proven to interfere with the band used by radio amateurs (HF band, 1.8 to 30MHz).
Another [...]

There are, at very least, two sides to every story.  I recognize the value of GPS devices to the people who use them.  From the very beginning, however, the concept made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. By the principle of reciprocity, if you can get driving directions, They know where [...]

Special Event stations for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games began operating on May 18 and are scheduled to continue through September 17. Five special calls, representing the five rings of the Olympic flag, are on the air: BT1OB, BT1OJ, BT1OH, BT1OY and BT1ON. The last letter of the call sign corresponds to the color of [...]

Jesse Ventura Talks 9/11 Truth On Howard Stern
Howard Stern has Jesse Ventura back on the show and he lets rip his views on the Vietnam war, the Gulf of Tonkin false flag event, the PNAC doucuments, a new Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
Talk about your strange bedfellows… Jesse Ventura on the Howard Stern show, as reported [...]

Wille Faler writes “Swedish blogger and civil rights activist Henrik Alexandersson has been reported for “freedom of speech” violations by the head of FRA (Swedish National Defense Radio Establishment), the government agency that is responsible for surveilling the contents, origins and destinations of all phone calls, internet traffic and text messages passing through swedish networks, [...]

I haven’t spent enough time on the actual topic of the blog, thermionic emissions.  This simply refers to vacuum tubes and the way they operate.
Two weeks back I attended a hamfest outside of Philly.  For the uninitiated, this is sort of an electronic flea market for radio, audio, and computer people.   It does not refer, [...]

A while back I purchased a stack of ancient amateur radio magazines.  They’re so old, some of them date back before I was hatched(!)   I find all sorts of interesting information in them, from basic electronics (TUBES, of course) to ads.   It’s incredibly interesting to look at the differences in advertising between then and now, [...]

Last night my wife was watching the local news (I always do something else when she watches local news because local news has no content whatsoever. She called me in for a story about a zone of no car alarms.
There was some sort of local shopping center where, for the last year, no one [...]

YouTube - Syndicated Radio host Michael Reagan, adopted son of former president Ronald Reagan, publicly calls for 9/11 Truth Activist Mark Dice to be murdered.
“We ought to find the people who are doing this, take them out and shoot them. Really. You take them out, they are traitors to this country, and shoot them. You [...]