Carl Blare

Being snowed indoors has a strange effect on the mind. I’m thinking of part 15 life situations.

The worst think a part 15er can hear from his wife or girl friend:

“Is there anything else on?”

I am thinking this morning about the news problem we have discussed, regarding availability of radio newscasts 7-days a week. But there is another news problem very worthwhile to think about. I’m talking about news content.

Some news sources have political agendas and will omit stories or parts of stories, or will favor certain kinds of stories to satisfy their agenda. We may not notice the difference unless we become super aware of what is being reported by many sources.

One example of omission I noticed just last week was with regard to the new Republican Senate opening their season with a reading of the Constitution. There are two parts of the news coverage I heard on alternative internet sources which were not included by the local newspaper, in a story that occupied half a page. None of the representatives showed up to hear the reading, and very significant, several parts of the Constitution were skipped. The paper made it sound like a glorious moment of splendor for the flag.

What I am doing right now, talking about comparative news reporting, is called “journalism review,” and that’s something that was once the basis of its own newspapers and broadcasts, but has now disappeared entirely.

We may be small, but I don’t think we want to be unwitting propaganda voices for someone else’s agenda.

Mostly the signal at AM 1680 goes a few hundred feet, getting weaker on the uphill grade, and by the top of the hill is gone. But the radio was left on and there was powerline buzz alternating with a station way off in Michigan, until at about two miles while crossing a 5-way intersection the signal from home was there with enough strength to recognize the program! But in order to keep listening, it would have been necessary to remain stopped in the middle of the cross streets.

The Low Power Hour has visited Radio8z and MRAM1500.

http://kdxradio.com/demand.html

KDX4 – Radio8z

KDX6 – MRAM1500

I am very curious about the shape of AM antennas and how that shape affects/effects performance.

I am not talking about straight verticals, whether thin wire or thick pipe.

I am very curious about the shape of AM antennas and how that shape affects/effects performance.

I am not talking about straight verticals, whether thin wire or thick pipe.

I am talking about towers with either 4-legs or 3-legs which are wide at the bottom, narrow toward the top, and have all the support braces in triangular patterns all the way up each side. What does that wide-bottom narrow top shape do to the signal?

Every episode of “This Week in Radio Tech” is a permanent keeper. The hosts are all major engineers for licensed power houses talking about the big versions of all the small stuff we talk about.

Every episode of “This Week in Radio Tech” is a permanent keeper. The hosts are all major engineers for licensed power houses talking about the big versions of all the small stuff we talk about.

Tonight the subject was “How to Stream.”

It is “The High Power Hour,” or, “The Licensed Radio Hour.”

Oh, and by the way,

http://www.thisweekinradiotech.com/