Love train stories? Poetry? Dramatic readings? The inimitable Jean Shepherd reads Grant Reynard's 'Rattling Home for Christmas' complete with train sound effects. From his Christmas Eve broadcast of 1965 on WOR New York
For you own personal enjoyment or to play on your station. Approx. 31 minutes.
http://masturbatorium.com/RattlingHome.mp3
I'm also playing Shep on-air today, and streaming at http://afterburn.caster.fm/
Trains? Smartest thing ever made by man, except for radio.
Trains and radio.
Trains and radio and women.
Thanks for the Jean Shephard! Will air it tonight!
I just ran one of his shows the other night, titled "What Is Radio."
Real radio stations never close for Christmas, and this one was very active because on Christmas Eve the CD/DVD Drive stopped connecting and the troubleshoot that followed lasted all day Christmas and just got fixed.
The Windows Trouble Wizard said "Uninstall it and Reintall it," which I did that several times until convinced that it wasn't going to work.
Last night until past midnight I patrolled the storage junk looking for a spare drive but only found a SCSI type, which will not fit an IDE socket.
Today I remembered that the old HP computer, the one I keep tripping over, had an IDE drive inside.
Taking computers apart and unhooking connectors is an easy way to lose a hand, but the job got done only to find that the replacement drive also failed.
That's when I tried a Windows Restore Point to yesterday when, guess what, I had uninstalled and re-installed iTunes. That's what caused the problem.
Now the CD Drive is working again, but I have the old "defective" version of iTunes back again. Actually, all versions of iTunes are defective.
How was Christmas, by the way? I missed it.
Yes, Part 15 broadcasters have all of those attributes.
I may be the only one listening to my station but there have been some very late nights here also when things go wrong with the station.
Carl, Christmas was fine. The Low Power Hour played right on schedule here at MRAM 1500 and the How To Do It episodes were heard all over the City, all day and night on our AM TIS station.
Was Santa able to get in and out without you catching him?
In the dark and cold some old guy dressed in a Santa suit tried for 45-minutes to get in, but he finally gave up and seemed to climb a rope or something up to a height where I couldn't see him.
I didn't call it in because I was afraid the police would brush me off as another drinker.
Those people in Cuyago Falls are having trouble learning how to start their own radio stations, so I'll send some more "How To Guides."
One year a station secretary from the local public station stopped by all polished and pink in her short (for winter) skirt, and after three hours of me demonstrating part 15 radio, she left in a scowling mood muttering something about a party that might still be going on 30-miles away.