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Bob I have seen reports from Channel 5 WEWS that there has been some wide spread flooding and power outages in Cuyahoga County. Are you okay?

If you are unable to read this, I will assume your power is out at the moment in which case, you won’t be able to answer that question. Seriously hope everyone is okay in your neck of the woods and i wll continue to watch the news from WEWS in the meantime.

For those whose name is not Bob Felmly and are curious as to what the heck i am talking about, here is the news from channel 5 WEWS TV.

http://www.newsnet5.com/poweroutage
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http://www.newsnet5.com/home

Wow!
Who would of thought a family could have so much fun with a talk show that everyone can join in on?

My family certainly has! Nearly everyone in my household has joined in on our talk show that airs over our internet station Blue Bucket Radio. Our talk show is called “The Little Things Show” and features many subjects from law breakers to crazy youtube videos and everything in between. Hosted by Barry and his wife Stephanie, the show airs twice a week at 10 pm et and last’s usually 1 hour though recently the show has reached 3 hours!

Sometimes there is nothing new to talk about meaning we were unprepared due to our busy schedules and other times we have it all together. There are times when our daughter Caitlyn joins us and other times the whole family comes into the studio to add something.

We stream the show live from our studio at home to our Shoutcast server at Reliastream.com and www.radiodizzy.us. Each show is recorded, edited and uploaded to our on demand page provided by our shoutcast service.

I may have to upload a few of the longer shows to Podomatic since i am limited on space on the Reliastream server.

Feel free to listen and if you want, you could air the shows but I do suggest previewing the shows before airing them over the air waves as there might be something you or someone else might not agree with. The show is clean as there is no profanity.

I hope to add more shows throughout the week taking the show from 2 nights a week to 4 nights a week.

We shall see. I hope you enjoy it, we are still working the bugs out.

Thanks for reading and happy broadcasting.

A short article about grounding stations and resistance.
http://electrical-engineering-portal.com/what-is-a-good-ground-resistance-value

This morning at 11:21 AM a fighter jet flew over our house twice.

First time i was attempting to record a station ID which i was going to use on Blue Bucket Radio and also send to MRAM (Bob) to be used for the ALPB.

The mic was open and i had Audacity set up for recording using the voice activation mode so just as i was about to record, the Jet flew over and was loud enough to start the recording.

At first i was a bit frustrated and bewildered, i mean this isn’t the first time a fighter jet has flown over this mountain but it was loud enough this time to set off the record function and sounded a bit odd in the headphones. I don’t play my headphones very loud due to tinnitus so it was pretty much in the background.

I reviewed the recording and determined that it was indeed a Jet Fighter and assumed it was probably Ky National Guard or some other branch of the military, this happens a lot around here and i haven’t asked anyone about it yet.

So out of curiosity i decided to open a voice recorder app on my Android phone and have it recording while i did my production work. 11 minutes later that jet flew over again and i caught it on virtual tape.

I present to you a free sound effect in the raw of a Jet Fighter flying over the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. Which by the way, woke up the rest of the family (who should have been awake anyway) and scared my Siberian Husky enough that she wanted in the house.

I think there might have been a second plane following behind the first but since thunder echoes in these mountains i couldn’t be sure. Lets face it, by the time you hear the sounds it’s already too late to look for it.

Enjoy..

you could eat off of it.

I was finally able to clean up the audio of the Blue Bucket Am Transmitter.
How? I have no clue! Really! All i did was move the bucket around, it is pretty much in the same place it was the day i set this thing up in the yard. Now to work on getting more range out of this thing.

Hear for yourself, i used no processing during this broadcast.
https://soundcloud.com/rock957/am-1610-blue-bucket-radio-clean-audio-no-hum

A follow up on my post from a couple weeks ago, the transmitter in a bucket was thrown together today in the house and set up in a temporary location outside.

Range was 1/4 mile from an ungrounded 100 mW AM transmitter, the audio is being fed to the transmitter via a Sony Walkman tuned to 102.7 FM. I am using one of those FM modulators that plugs into a cigarette lighter inside the house connected to a laptop and power supply.