In his Radio Engineering Blog for May 18
http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/
In his Radio Engineering Blog for May 18
http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/
Paul Thurst questions how radio stations plan to handle the end of the world, which will happen Saturday in Time-Zone increments.
Well…
Well,
at least I’ll be outside doing yard work so I won’t bump my head on the ceiling.
Rain Out Scheduled
I just got an email from my spiritual comedic guru who tells me, the end (as it is known), has been rescheduled and will probably be rained out. He says they plan to do a double header later in the season. I have no idea what that means. So, you can still barbecue on Saturday. Yeehaw!
HI POWER
So if the world is going to end
Saturday at 6:PM, I could say,
run, say 50,000 watts, right?
I think I heard somebody say
that there is an old 50,000 watt
transmitter lying around at
one of the local stations not
being used. I probably could
get it over to my house and
have it working by, maybe,
late Saturday afternoon.
I would just need about 30
guys to put it on 2 or 3 trucks and
bring it over and carry it thru
the side yard in the backyard.
After all, why put it inside? I’ll
just put a BIG tarp over it. We’ll
have to build some sort of flat
deck to put it on, so it won’t
sink into the muddy back yard.
I’ll probably have to hire some kind
of brick layer dude to build some
kind of barrier so it doesn’t fall
over sideways into my muddy back
yard. I probably won’t have time
to make a transmitting antenna so
I’ll just have to use the 3 meter pole.
I think this transmitter is for 1230 kHz.
Usually you wouldn’t have a 50 kW AM
unit running on 1230, but the station
that bought it didn’t know that. They
bought the wrong transmitter. So
they just left it lying out in the engineer’s
work shed because nobody wanted to
tell the general manager that he spent
so much money on something they would
never use. Rumor has it that whenever
the GM is listening to the station, somebody
just sneaks in and turns up the volume on
the radio so the GM thinks there is a
stronger signal (so there is the illusion of
higher power.)
I can’t go on 1230 kHz because that station
is already there, so I’ll have to take the
crystal apart and grind it so it gets up into
the 1610 to 1690 range. I think I’ve got
some stuff in my garage to do that. I have
one of those sanding wheels that fits on
the front of a grill.
In case of RF feeding back into the
studio gear, I’ll just run, say a 5000
foot cable down the street and set
up a temporary studio out on the
sidewalk of Ferd Rd. If the transmitter
needs 440 V, I can probably get a
step up transformer out of my stove
or something.
Yup. Sounds like a plan.
Best Wishes,
Bruce, MICRO1690/1700
Last Blast
Bruce, if you can get your power house on the air by late Saturday, we will tune in from the next time zone, Central Time, and we’ll still have an hour after your world ends.
Will your transmission continue in the after-time?
They have transmitters in heaven, I saw it in the bible.
HI CARL
Carl, well in that case I’ll have to
put the transmitter on way before
6:PM EDT so that I have time to rig up
a directional array, so the signal
gets to you during critical hours.
Let’s see. I think there is a station
in Detroit on 1500 or 1510 that has
a 14 tower array. If I could build
something like that – then there
probably would be hundreds of
thousands of watts going in your
direction. I’ll have to line up the
array in the right direction.
Um… Um… Uh… HERE’S my compass!
I just found it in my sock drawer!! Well,
that takes care of that problem.
Tell you what, I’ll grind the crystal for
1720 kHz so the channel is really clear!
Then you are sure to hear it. As I said
before, I have this sanding thingee that
attaches to the front of my grill – oops –
sorry I meant DRILL. Please excuse the
typos in this and the previous messagf.
Yup. Sounds like a plan.
Best Wishes,
Bruce, MICRO1690/1700
Five-Fifty-Nine Saturday
Time is 5:59 PM Saturday May 21.
Sign Off Message?
You guys need to just stop
You guys need to just stop worrying about May 21.. It’s just a scheduled practice drill for Dec. 21 of next year.
This information comes from good authority, I saw it on Fox News.
Alternate Ending
Rich Powers is right. The “Mayan Calendar” is rumored to anticipate “the end of time” 12/21/12. the winter solstice.
BUT, if the Mayans had actually been so smart, they’d have known they’d be extinct long ago.
Don’t quit your job yet.
The Rapture is undetectable
We will not know if the Rapture occurs or not on Saturday. Only God’s own people are to be whisked into Heaven during the Rapture. Those who are left behind are the unworthy, who are undoubtedly in the great majority. Those few who disappear on Saturday may be the holy, or they may have disappeared for some other reason. I expect to be around on Saturday, unless I am kidnapped, or I decide to make a quick getaway for some reason.
The perfect broadcast for May 21 😉
You reminded of a time my grandmother called us into the house and tricked us into thinking we were listening to the radio, when in reality it was an LP record…
We listened, and after a few minutes we all became glued to the “radio broadcast” – and never having a clue that it was really a record playing.. and what we heard actually began to scared us.
I just listened to it again for the first time in almost 40 years. Want to have a little fun? This would make a great broadcast for this Saturday!
It’s from 1971.
Higher quality: 15mg
http://www.end80radio.com/The_Rapture_1971_Jack_W._Hester—128.mp3
or Low quality: 7mg
http://www.end80radio.com/The_Rapture_1971_Jack_W._Hester—64.mp3
(I found it on youtube and edited out the introduction, and the preaching at the end; leaving the 16 minutes of the “radio broadcast”. If you want to hear the entire album it’s available on youtube).
True Story of Another World End
A few years ago there was a Coast-To_Coast show with the guy who published “End Time Magazine,” and he said the end was coming a few months from then. Let’s say it would be spring, 1999.
So, the next day, I called the 800 number he gave for the magazine and asked if I could get a 5-year subscription. They assured me that I could.
Dates…
You know,
Camping says the Rapture is on May 21st 6pm,
HOWEVER,
The world as we know it (as predicted by Camping)
Will not end until October 22, 6 days after my B-Day…
Time delay
Exactly. There will be a time of “tribulation” between the rapture and the end, which is unspecified. Camping sets it 5 months, but it may be years. So, the rapture is undetectable, and the time of the end is unknown.
I wonder what excuse Camping will give if he remains here. Could that mean that he is not among the select?
Just in case
I’m not doing laundry, washing dishes, taking out trash, paying bills or running errands until Sunday. And how is that different from any other weekend? Oh, yeah…
Past excuses of similar movements have ranged from “the work of the devil” to “the world has ended, your mind just hasn’t accepted it yet!”
Jack Hester – one of the better “War of the Worlds” knock offs, great early 70s radio imaging nostalgia.
5 year subscription to an end-times magazine – hysterical!
Did You Feel Anything
6 PM LOCAL TIME CAME AND WENT
Today is Saturday May 21, 2011
Have we overlooked something?
Are you still here?
I think maybe I am still here.
Are there any further instructions?
You can hear this guy in
You can hear this guy in baltimore on 107.9 FM
It is a pretty strong signal.
He sounds like the devil ironically.
Maybe this will thin out the horde of religious broadcasters in the U.S.
We report on this subject here:
THE RAPTOR
Left Behind…
Well, everyone I know is still here.
Hmmmm, that could be goooood or baaaaad.
Not to be self-righteous but either we all missed the boat or the prediction was flawed.
Heaven is really cool
You should see the computers up here in Heaven. No tower, no keyboard, no screen. Unlimited instant Internet access. Most of the websites don’t even exist yet. The math programs are really something. Fermat’s Last Theorem, Poincare Conjecture, Riemann Hypothesis, all solved, and you actually understand the solutions. Best of all, Maxwell’s laws are perfectly obvious. Now I really understand ground leads…Er…there’s been a mistake? I have to leave? Immediately?Aiiiiiiiii…
Theme Park
That heaven you were in is a theme park called “Walmart,” which is amazing because there are no walls, only an infinite sea of products.
Everyone there looked enraptured.
Flawed or Fraud
Harold Camping and the Family Radio Network did this little act once before in 1994 with the same outcome. Camping later explained that it was the end of the “church age”. He has already explained away the “non-ending” that occurred this last Saturday. For being over ninety years of age, you would think he would have gone the way of Jim Baker by now. Harold Camping is a false prophet. In Bible times, false prophets were stone to death. Harold Camping is just “stoned”. Maybe, he just needs a change of medication, or to loosen his boxers a bit.
As a practicing and credentialed minister who has to provide an explanation for Camping’s delusional prophetic utterances, I find him both theologically inaccurate and an intellectual fraud. No where in the codex translations from the original Greek or Hebrew can an honest theologian come to the same conclusion. I believe we are experiencing the delusions of an elderly man who happens to head up a large network of Christian radio stations.
Harold Camping is a fraud and flawed.
And finally, no man knows the day or the hour of Christ’s return, not even the Son. And that would include me.
The Other Hand
Marshall’s summary is logical and practical from the theological point of view.
But from the promotional point of view, Mr. Camping has hit a home run.
The whole world started talking about his prediction, and continued speaking about it right up to May 21, and are continuing to discuss it now. What a great publicity ploy to attract listeners to the shortwave stations where Mr. Camping hangs out.
Otherwise known as a publicity stunt.
Publicity Stunts Short Lived
With the accepted standard attention span of humans at 9 seconds and the ubiquity and speed at which information travels, Harold Camping will soon discover the rest of the world no longer cares what he thinks or says. The consuming public becomes numb to his ranting and predictions. You can only cry wolf so many times before no one cares to hear what you have to say.
I just hope he understands the momentary attention he has attracted, is just that, momentary. Over 90 years of age, I have to wonder if someone else put him up to this stunt. If so, Camping becomes the puppet. I can guess who the puppet master is. I think I can safely surmise it isn’t God, and God isn’t amused.
I don’t know of anybody who left the Earth.
Everyone I know is still here.
I’m glad all you guys are still here.
And that also goes for my family
and friends I have known through out
the years.
And for my 3 dogs, too.
Bruce, MICRO1690/1700
The Robins Are Gone
I had some baby robins crammed into a nest on the top rung of a 10-foot ladder, and suddenly the nest is empty.
Rapture!
He went to a motel….
Harold Camping, radio preacher, went with his wife to a motel after missing the date and time for the end of the earth prophecy. Read about it here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43140373/?gt1=43001
Between now and October, we have enough time to put together the Part 15 EAS network some have suggested for the folks who don’t make the going up. I always knew we would find a use for that idea. We could call it the “Low Power Yer Outa Here Network”.
See ya……POOF!!!
Why Say That
I hate it when the world ends in October.
Instead of Going To A Motel
Harold Camping should go camping.
The weather is starting to get good.
Yup, it’s me-
Bruce, MICRO1690/1700
Maybe It Could Work
Camping With Camping
A new program from MICRO1700
celebrating the Outdoor Life
Where you will never bump your head on the ceiling
On your way to the Theme Park in the Sky