@richpowers You get what you pay for. My daytime "retirement" job is working for a Fortune 500, big box home improvement store. A $50 tool seems ent...

@richpowers Sorry, Rich. I've had to deal with ASCAP. They still collect fees and will threaten to sue you if you don't comply.

I always understood it to be that the signal traveled better on the upper end of the dial, starting at around 1300 kHz. I chose 1610 because no US sta...

Dollars to donuts ASCAP would still collect a fee to broadcast it, etc. "But it's public domain now". Never stopped them yet. Their syndicate strong a...

Katy Trail runs clear across Missouri, friend. It's been around for nearly 30 years! It's a fitness and biking trail on the old Katy Railroad right of...

self hosting comes with its own set of headaches like a sticky, "dedicated" IP address. I have minimal interest in running my own server, yet here I a...

The aluminum siding will radiate best if it is coated with a non-metallic paint over the long term; because of oxidation. Also, where it connects elec...

The contemporary use of a "pocket radio" would only be for portability in an emergency. I use one of those portable Voyager radio's to check my signal...

Yes, add this to the sheer level of outright fraud in the "science" world. There has been a number of articles about it the last couple of years. The ...

Carl was a very interesting person. Enjoy the odd people you're surrounding by while you have them.

I'm looking at some of these and they don't appear to be downloadable.  

What I don't do is say "this is KE0JIT" but "Radio Phvern is a project of KE0JIT". The station is announced as "Radio Phvern". Probably hair splitti...

I recall nothing but music on AM in the early 1970's, and our first FM rock station was KSHE in "Crestwood, MO" along old Rt 66. It did sound better t...