Kind of cool, if you need some offbeat news prep:
http://www.fark.com/
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How to be a Radio Presenter I didn’t find this website to be particularly informative, but in spite of this, it was kind of interesting to me .
I actually browsed the entire site. All the pages were short and quick reads.
Somehow, it seemed charming.
Maybe I just liked the simplicity of it. I don’t know.
I wouldn’t call it useful, but if nothing else, you might find it worth the glance over..
Good Ones You are a fine radio presenter, Rich Powers.
I enjoyed Fark and laughed a lot at several of their “not news” stories. I expected “fark” to be a dictionary word, but my dictionary doesn’t know.
I can see why you like “Radio Presenting,” and have learned from the experience that, after many years in radio, I am a “radio presenter,” even more so today since we are “presenting low power radio.” But for many departments offered by radiopresenting.com, their “ABOUT” link isn’t hooked up, so we don’t know who is presenting.
RichPowerssays
Undefineable Well Carl, the best I can deduce on the meaning of Fark is that it’s “not cheese”, not even backwards. But it is close.
I hope that helps.
RichPowerssays
1991 Radio Station studio tour video YouTube description: “K99.1FM – WHKO, Dayton Ohio, a very dated radio station studio tour from 1991. This video has been edited for time.”
Makes me wonder how long the original broadcast was.. this runtime is 9:34. Dated perhaps, but it’s a pretty detailed tour of a professional radio station.. or at least their station as it was 20 years ago.
I’ve never been to a radio station, so I don’t know, but it did give me a more first hand impression concerning operations and procedures, and cart use and.. other stuff –
Anyway, it’s just something to check out if you feel like killing ten minutes!
I thought it was fun.
SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific has developed a technology that uses the magnetic induction properties of sodium chloride (salt) in sea water to create UHF/VHF/HF antenna.
Create An Effective Radio Commercial Just a couple interesting short articles concerning radio commercials.. http://www.marcommwise.com/articlecat.phtml?c=Advertising (Radio)
(I liked the second article on producing a commercial more)
By the way, I’m surprised no one commented on the “Salt water antenna” a post or two above.. that was pretty intersting I thought.
Ken Norrissays
Seawater Of course I can say from experience seawater is a good conductor, better than plain earth by thousands of MHo’s, so there is no reason it can’t serve as an inductor with the magnet. Cool idea … although I suppose you’d need a battery-powered pump. Still useful in situations near or on the water for emergencies, such as they just experienced in Japan.
Ermi Roossays
Sea water antenna The sea water antenna is something that gets re-invented from time to time. The earliest description I have seen was published in the 1970s. I doubt that a patent will be issued for this invention because it has been described before. Even if the patent examiner somehow issues a patent, it will not be valid because the idea has been published previously, and is therefore not novel.
The conductive water stream antenna is similar to the tree antenna described on another thread in this Forum. It makes use of a conductive ionic liquid (salt water, rather than tree sap). It will not work as well as a length of wire as long as the liquid stream, because any metal is much more conductive than any ionic solution, and this antenna will therefore be much less efficient than a wire antenna.
T.ALLREDsays
Nice!!! I like the idea of incorporating saltwater into an antenna design; however, has anyone tried this application with part 15 AM or FM?
Carl Blaresays
Applauding Wildly The Sea Water Antenna is spectacular!
PhilB, others, please watch this video!
Starts at 2mHz….well that’s just a notch higher than the AM X-band!
Shoots a viable stream as high as 60-feet? Hey, the Part 15 rules don’t mention water as an antenna medium.
PhilB, I mentioned your name because it seems to me that, as this product becomes commercially available, it might be a great item for your product list.
Can be used on dry land by using a bucket and some salt? Get me one!
How to be a Radio Presenter
I didn’t find this website to be particularly informative, but in spite of this, it was kind of interesting to me .
I actually browsed the entire site. All the pages were short and quick reads.
Somehow, it seemed charming.
Maybe I just liked the simplicity of it. I don’t know.
I wouldn’t call it useful, but if nothing else, you might find it worth the glance over..
http://www.radiopresenting.com/
Good Ones
You are a fine radio presenter, Rich Powers.
I enjoyed Fark and laughed a lot at several of their “not news” stories. I expected “fark” to be a dictionary word, but my dictionary doesn’t know.
I can see why you like “Radio Presenting,” and have learned from the experience that, after many years in radio, I am a “radio presenter,” even more so today since we are “presenting low power radio.” But for many departments offered by radiopresenting.com, their “ABOUT” link isn’t hooked up, so we don’t know who is presenting.
Undefineable
Well Carl, the best I can deduce on the meaning of Fark is that it’s “not cheese”, not even backwards. But it is close.
I hope that helps.
1991 Radio Station studio tour video
YouTube description: “K99.1FM – WHKO, Dayton Ohio, a very dated radio station studio tour from 1991. This video has been edited for time.”
Makes me wonder how long the original broadcast was.. this runtime is 9:34. Dated perhaps, but it’s a pretty detailed tour of a professional radio station.. or at least their station as it was 20 years ago.
I’ve never been to a radio station, so I don’t know, but it did give me a more first hand impression concerning operations and procedures, and cart use and.. other stuff –
Anyway, it’s just something to check out if you feel like killing ten minutes!
I thought it was fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neUV0AyewL4
Runtime: 9:34
Sea Water Antenna
Oooo neat!
SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific has developed a technology that uses the magnetic induction properties of sodium chloride (salt) in sea water to create UHF/VHF/HF antenna.
Runtime 5:45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tIZUhu21sQ
Create An Effective Radio Commercial
Just a couple interesting short articles concerning radio commercials.. http://www.marcommwise.com/articlecat.phtml?c=Advertising (Radio)
(I liked the second article on producing a commercial more)
By the way, I’m surprised no one commented on the “Salt water antenna” a post or two above.. that was pretty intersting I thought.
Seawater
Of course I can say from experience seawater is a good conductor, better than plain earth by thousands of MHo’s, so there is no reason it can’t serve as an inductor with the magnet. Cool idea … although I suppose you’d need a battery-powered pump. Still useful in situations near or on the water for emergencies, such as they just experienced in Japan.
Sea water antenna
The sea water antenna is something that gets re-invented from time to time. The earliest description I have seen was published in the 1970s. I doubt that a patent will be issued for this invention because it has been described before. Even if the patent examiner somehow issues a patent, it will not be valid because the idea has been published previously, and is therefore not novel.
The conductive water stream antenna is similar to the tree antenna described on another thread in this Forum. It makes use of a conductive ionic liquid (salt water, rather than tree sap). It will not work as well as a length of wire as long as the liquid stream, because any metal is much more conductive than any ionic solution, and this antenna will therefore be much less efficient than a wire antenna.
Nice!!!
I like the idea of incorporating saltwater into an antenna design; however, has anyone tried this application with part 15 AM or FM?
Applauding Wildly
The Sea Water Antenna is spectacular!
PhilB, others, please watch this video!
Starts at 2mHz….well that’s just a notch higher than the AM X-band!
Shoots a viable stream as high as 60-feet? Hey, the Part 15 rules don’t mention water as an antenna medium.
PhilB, I mentioned your name because it seems to me that, as this product becomes commercially available, it might be a great item for your product list.
Can be used on dry land by using a bucket and some salt? Get me one!