Highly recommend H. Ward Silver's Grounding and Bonding for the Radio Amateur from the ARRL store. Kindle edition also available.

Watching WJBK 3/11 at 11am. First, distracted by Maurielle Lue's hideous costume. Noting two lower thirds errors in story on a traffic crash on the east side. Teaser said "Connor and Warren"- it was in fact much further north, between Harper and Gratiot. Graphic during Langton's story called the str...

"Solid state" meant/means an electronic device that uses transistors and diodes, a marketing term to indicate it had no old fashioned vacuum tubes. Don't recall any thermostat ever that contained vacuum tubes! The old thermostats had a springy bi-metal strip that flexed with temperature, activating ...

SPOILER ALERT! If you don't want to know who won the Jeopardy team tournament, don't read on. Team Brad won first place, team Ken was second and team Colby was third. Geez, if you're going to do a "spoiler alert" don't put the "spoiler" in the same line of copy as the Alert. There's that peripheral...

Tomorrow the final of Jeopardy's Team Tournament Of Champions will be bumped for Mayor Mike Duggan's State Of The City Address. However it will be shown the next evening, (bumping Wednesday return to regular Jeopardy.) It seems a prudent thing to do. Zap2It is saying that WDIV is airing the regular...

innate-in-you wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:10 pm

AM 1310, La Zeta.

Yes, the name means "The Z", though that letter isn't in its call sign!

"La Zeta" of course is just a branding identity. Before that it was "La Mega" though there was no "mega" in its callsign, though its dial position is 1.31 MEGAHertz

...Look up KK8OTD in the meantime on one of the many search engines. The callsign shown on the show is NOT his actual callsign. It just hit me funny I guess. I never knew his given name. Tim is KK6OTD ( not 8 ). His fictional call on the show as Mike Baxter is KA0XTT. The very well-equipped shack, ...

"White Port and Lemon Juice" (W.P.L.J.) original by the Four Deuces, covered later by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. The Inspiration for (about to be gone) NYC callsign WPLJ.

"Drunk Again" - Paul Butterfield Blues Band ("In My Own Dream")

One of Big Cable's selling points has been that, unlike Satellite TV (Dish/Direct, etc.), weather-related outages due to rain, snow, ice and wind were just not ever an issue with cable. During our recent bits of nasty weather (snow, ice, wind) I've seen a few program services and networks (delivered...

CBS was originally on WJBK TV2 until the station abruptly switched to Fox, leaving CBS without a station in the Detroit market. WGPR TV62 was locally owned and I believe the only station up for sale/available when CBS bought it. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. WGPR-TV wasn't actually up for...

Turkeytop wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 08, 2019 7:57 pm

The last time I checked, a few nights ago, it's still running.

Yup. Like clockwork. <rimshot>

stopnswop2 wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 09, 2019 10:49 pm

Wait how do you have a "face for radio"?
We only hear their voices

Do we actually have to explain this ????

...I remember "Friendly" Bob Allison from his WWJ days in the mid-60's. ... You might be confusing nicknames. Bob Allison's on-air persona certainly always was/is, friendly. There was also heavy advertising in that era for radio listeners to call "Friendly Bob Adams ®," the fictional front for mone...

Legendary WBZ Broadcaster Gary LaPierre dies at 76 I remember hearing LaPierre doing the news on WBZ back in their rock'n'roll 60s when I'd listen to Dick Summer. Had one of the most "listenable" voices anywhere. Before the days of IBOC, WUFL on 1030, and other noisemakers, WBZ's morning news block...