During the night something got knocked to the floor in the dark by a clumsy radio announcer, but I was too sleepy to find out what had fallen until this morning.
Oh no! The precious TECSUN PL-310 had dropped 2.5-feet to a hard wood floor!
Close physical inspection found no dents or scratches, so we flipped it on and heard rock music at 101.5 mHz.
Oh no! Someone was on my hard-found frequency, maybe a new LPFM or translator. Luckily a generic voice came on identifying the station as KPLA.
A quick search found KPLA, 41kW in Columbia, Missouri, 120-miles away!
Wow, the TECSUN had found a most interesting way of telling me that it was all right and my frequency was still available for local use.
101.5 mHz is used by a Wholehouse 2.0 to send audio editing projects 6-feet to a C.Crane Plus Radio.
Part 15 FM "Voice of the Microcosm."
Yup, that's a very good FM DX radio.
You know what's frustrating?
Oh man. It's when you are over
somebody else's house and there is
some kind of band opening that you
hear on THEIR radio, and you can't check
on it because it's a social occasion.
A ways back, I was at a lovely dinner.
We were in the dining room, next to
the living room. Somebody flipped on
the TV in the living room for a little
background chatter.
There was a gigantic E-skip opening
on TV channels 2, 4, 5, and 6. (This was
in the NTSC/"over the air" days, and even the local channel
3 was getting some interference from the skip.)
Oh it was so big an opening, and we could do
nothing. (I was with a friend from one of the
local radio stations.)
OH WELL.
Bruce
Same thing as your experience, me and the date were visiting with some plain people when something really good came on the radio. But they didn't notice and kept flapping their lips. I was trying to ignore them and only hear the radio, but they would cut in by saying, "What do you think, Carl?"
I wanted to curse them out and splash a drink toward them, but I remained polite and now suffer the rest of my life without having heard that super interesting broadcast.
Turn down marriage proposals and stick with Part 15 as your preferred life style.
Join the ALPB.
My Tempo S-2 220 MHz amateur radio
handie talkie fell off the top of our
new fridge after I closed the door.
It never fell off the top of the old
fridge when I closed the door.
It fell quite a bit farther (further?)
than your Tecsun 380.
It didn't make it.
Bruce
MICRO1700
"Beyond the Fridge" is an excellent play on "Beyond the Fringe," and I only mention it for the hasty readers who missed it the first time.
Things that fall might be the whole problem with life, but I haven't given it much thought.
I have a bachelor sized fridge which never has enough room for everything, but I'm holding out for "the new woman," being optimisitic, who will be able to select the new and bigger refridge of tomorrow.
Do you realize that some people who earn bachelor's degrees are married? CNN has said nothing about it.
So can I come over to your place?
i won't be any trouble. I'll live inside
your fridge. OH - wait a minute. I'll
live inside your dryer. From what I've heard -
there is room to hang up pictures and put a stereo
system in there. During those really bad storm alerts
you can stay in the dryer and I'll go into the back of
your unused old NTSC television set.
I'm a rather short person, you know.
The parachuting lessons I had for my 55th
birthday didn't work out.
Bruce
I'm hoping that somebody might be laughing
somewhere.
Bruce
Bruce, you are welcome here at the Internet Building, but why are you leaving home?
My wife and I either work or
are attending to "life stuff" just
about all the time.
Also, I can't drive because of the
eye thing. So going anywhere else is
a treat for me. Even a funeral. It's
a real family joke. It's really true.
You could ask anyone and they would
say, "Yup, Bruce would like to go anywhere."
Especially my brother. He knows. I went
with him to the funeral.
Bruce
Carl, I like the shows from KDX where
you go off in the distance and still
are talking to the mike but from far away.
Sometimes you move things or go to
other rooms and listen to the "KDX monitoring
radios." Sometimes you turn things on or
shut them off, and it all gets into the mike.
You have interviewed poeple on your
street and you have left the miike outside
so the nature sounds and other noises
are audible to the listener. I really like that.
It's the theature of the mind.
I would be fun to see KDX. I don't think I'll
ever really get out your way, but it's fun to
think about.
And from what I can tell, you must have
about 5 million records.
It must be cool to be there.
Bruce
KDX is more mysterious all the time. I enjoy being here so much that I have turned down many invitations to visit people in other places. I would not be happy leaving KDX.
A few years ago I took a few trips out to visit people who'd invited me, and I had to pretend I was having a good time. All the time I wanted to get back to the station.
I also notice that all my local "friends" never ever look at the website nor listen to the station, and although we all have our civil liberties, it begins to feel like an insult.
Neighbors walk by while I'm trimming the greens and I never mention the station, the chat is usually about trees and flowers.
Now I'm headed over to the WJR thread.