We hear it all the time. A radio station offers music, news, weather, traffic, and more.
What is the "more" part of such an offer?
That's what I am working on now.
My favorite example of a radio station with more is Friday Harbor Tiny Radio invented by Ken Norris. In addition to his talk, music and sports shows, he fills the night with nature sounds recorded in high quality swamps and un-trampeled forests. No hint of airplanes, traffic or human sounds... just sweet birds, frogs, burbling brooks and stirring breeze. The best more.
I don't own natural sounds, so I look elsewhere.
But first let's consider the psychology of it.
Talk programs stimulate the brain with incoming information.
Music programming excites the emotions with moods and feelings.
Complete silence is great more, but you can't broadcast it.
So I was listening to WWV, the time radio station of the National Bureau of Standards, and except for the occasional annoying tones it qualifies as being fairly more.
Over I went to the audio editor and created some ticks and tocks devoid of tones, and began airing them.
It sounds like... "tick-tick-tick-tick-tock" and sounds like a clock that doesn't know what time it is.
Tonight I plan on running it all night as an experiment.
Interested listeners with curiousity can check it at here...
The Tok Clok ran hour by hour through the night, until the lightning storm at 4:30 AM CDT, at which time I disconnected from the grid and went deep cover.
Even though mostly asleep during the event, the difference between having a clock ticking and the complete silence when it was turned off, was noticable and caused a shift in the sleeposphere.
Again tonight the clock will count the seconds on Worldround Raqdio.
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Thank you John WDCX for alerting as to mis-link.
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You may already detect that the acronym "xmtr" is an abbreviated form of "transmitter."
My radio servers are located on what I call the "Transmitter Room" page because I view a radio stream server as a form of radio transmitter.
Again tonight during "after hours" the clock tok machine will be running.
Sometimes I run an Alex Jones Show in the time after the online schedule says "off the grid," but the clok should start by 10 or 11 PM and run all night.
I'm thinking about placing voice messages every hour but so far it's all clok.
In the future I will show pictures of the part 15 transmitters with details about their antennas and frequencies.
I hate it when I am right all the time.
I made a mistake once. I thought I had made a mistake!
Actually, I learn so much from my mistakes that I make a few now and then just to stay sharp.
Some mistakes are worth making. That's all I can say at this time.
The KDX Worldround TOK CLOK simulation of a WWV time ticker minus actual time has won major accolades from inventor Carl Blare.
Early this morning Mr. Blare decided to take a nap prior to the official start of the program day.
But the voices on his radio were talking back and forth about how dangerous ebola is. This prevented Blare from drifting asleep, and he thought, "I know ebola is dangerous, so I wish they'd shut up."
But they didn't shut up and Blare noticed he had a pink pillow case. "If the guys at ALPB knew this it could be bad."
So Blare got up, changed pillow cases to white with a nice frilly flower pattern, and switched the radio to the TOK CLOK which is nothing but one tok after another at 1-second intervals.
The nap was fabulous.
Listeners don't always want to hear about everything.