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SEPTEMBER
Monday September 30, 2019
12:38 NOON CDT -- National Impeachment Day
Already established, National Impeachment Day is held on March 3rd.
Monday September 30, 2019
12:11 NOON CDT -- Orange Shirt Day
Research by Artisan Radio has uncovered a Newly Designated Holiday!
Today is Orange Shirt
Day in Canada. It was started to recognize the
impact that Canada's
Residential Schools had on indigenous communities
for over a
century. At least 2800 children died and/or disappeared in
these schools.
I also take it as a
sign of respect to the first inhabitants of North
America. What
Trump and his sycophants ignore is that white Europeans
were immigrants to this
land. They swindled and stole the land out from
under those that were
already here. In other words, what is left of the
First Nations are the
true 'Mericans. Not the old white males (and
females) that support
him and his ilk.
Ignorance fills empty heads.
Sunday September 29, 2019 9:08 PM
CDT -- Radio's Most Dramatic News Sounder
Sunday September 29, 2019 5:30 PM CDT -- Closed Monday, Open Tuesday
& Wednesday, Closed Thursday, Open Friday
Additional Designated Holidays have been added when The
Blare Blog will be open during the coming 1st week of October.
Sunday September 29, 2019 9:30 AM CDT -- Music for the Future of 1960
Back and forth in musical time.
Sunday September 29, 2019 9:15 AM CDT -- Aijet's Total Lie
The Chairman of the FCC in a bad light of his own shining.
Sunday September 29, 2019 7:58 AM CDT -- INCELS are Wrong in More Ways
Than One
The "involuntatilly celibates" are angry because women
won't have them, but let's deal with one problem at a time.
As
explained to us by a Catholic priest, "celibate" literally means
"unmarried". He noted that priests take a vow of celibacy, meaning they
will never marry. Nuns, on the other hand, take vows of chastity, which
means they will never have sex. The Church arranged it this
way
so the male clergy can enjoy the perverse thrill of watching the nuns
go insane.
So, the "incels" are involuntarilly chaste not
because they're ruffled over being unmarried, they plainly want sex and
aren't getting it. They are literally INCHASTE.
Getting the
right words isn't their only problem. The INCHASTE fail to understand
that it's not women who rebuff their incursions, it's biological nature
itself blocking out unsuited sperm spreaders from the
reproductive imperative, since the covert mission of the sex drive is
to overpopulate the planet until survival becomes unlikely.
Sunday September 29, 2019 7:23 AM CDT -- Glenn Hauser At 2000
The
host of "World of Radio" achieved his two-thousandth program containing
an interview on the history of the program hosted by Charles van Sant
of WSSR Cincinnati.
An odd thing is that
Cincinnati has no WSSR, those call letters are assigned to Joliet,
Illinois.
Saturday September 28, 2019 1:34 PM CDT -- Picking and Choosing on
Trash Day
When
the curbs are lined with heaps and stacks of refuse we've known people
who
make the rounds and pick about to collect free takeaways. It's
interesting to see what they take and what they leave behind. The
broken garden hose has possibilities but the discarded strorm windows
are the wrong size.
The same holds true when they chose their
politicians. For example the ones who chose Trump as their chosen liar
and cheater almost all identify with his hatred of non-whites and
dispassion about cruelty but none of them seem to adopt his penchant
for nice suits and bright executive ties. The Trump crowd parade around
in their half-pant cut-offs looking like geriatric six-year olds with
clown shoes, mismatched socks, ungroomed facial hair and rumpled
baseball caps not even owning a suit. They certainly won't be ready for
the next funeral.
Saturday September 28, 2019 10:44 AM CDT -- It Could Have Amounted to
Something
There
was once a great hobby which contained the seed of major revolution in
radio broadcasting. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened
the way for legal low power broadcasting with Part 15 of their rules.
At its origin the idea was intended to benefit equipment manufacturers
by permitting "phonograph oscillators" inside record players so that
music could be played over the family radio, eliminating the
higher cost of including amplifiers and loudspeakers in phonographs. It
was quickly realized that these mini-transmitters could be modified to
enable personal radio stations built around them. Personal transmitter
kits entered the catalogs and the great micro-radio hobby was
established.
Meanwhile
the national networks and local high power licensed radio stations
monopolized the programming arena making available only what they
offered. Over the decades quality dropped from an outstart of excellent
program fare to the present day trashpile of rightwing hate talk,
sports trivia, recycled religion, and repetitious music aimed for the
culturally retarded, and
it's still a monopoly with the FCC as their guardian.
What
we could have had is quite different. Were Part 15
micro-stations made part of every household, more
than occasional use as a realty tool, it
would be
listeners in
total charge of what gets heard in homes and by nearby
neighbors.
Program and advertising opportunities would bestow to homeowners whose
income would increase in exchange for commercial airtime. Energy
wasting high wattage stations would be mostly obsolete except for
regional public safety stations for traffic, weather, and emergency
contact with
the mass public.
Very
recently we've passed through the Armageddon of Part 15 radio as the
professional high quality kits that opened the door for entrance to
this empowerment have become extinct under very questionable
circumstances. What remains are low-level ineffectual beginner's kits
with no upgrades and vastly overpriced factory built units that offer
too little for their greatly inflated price.
As conspiracy
theories go it is widely witnessed that strategically placed trolls
entrenched in hobby forum sites have very actively and sereptitiously
succeeded in killing the kits and discouraging participation in this
liberating hobby.
What few practitioners continue to operate are
dwindling in number and even the little blue pill is impotent
against their disappearance.
Saturday September 28, 2019 6:32 AM CDT -- The Best Classical Music
from Germany
For
the 10th year (I'm estimating, it's been quite a few years) the
Deutsche Welle Festival Concert Series is coming to KDX Sunday evenings
at 6 PM CDT. The good news arrived by E-mail:
Dear
Subscribers, we're about to start a new season of festival concerts,
and it's an exciting one!
The fall quarter of DW
Festivals begins on Monday, September 30.
Clara Schumann turns
200 this year, so does Jacques Offenbach, but neither have ever sounded
younger than in our concerts, from a Schumannfest in Bonn and an
Offenbach Festival in Cologne.
Another birthday boy,
the Polish-born Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg, is only 100. His
music was duly celebrated in this Russian-Polish Weinberg Year - and we
have a special performance of his last symphony. This is music worth
sharing with your listeners.
On the subject of
anniversaries, hang on for the rollicking 50th anniversary tour begin
of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany. With Richard Strauss's
Alpine Symphony, it's clear why this young orchestra is in the deluxe
class.
Andreas Ottensamer is
only 30, but the multi-talented clarinetist is a hot commodity on the
music market, and was Artist in Residence at the most recent
Schwetzingen Festival. We were there and bring it to you.
Elected four years ago
by the Berlin Philharmonic as that orchestra's new principal conductor,
Kirill Petrenko gave his inaugural performance in August. We have it,
with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
This series would never
be complete without the opening of the Bachfest in Leipzig, this year
turning its attention to his courtly, i.e., worldly music and including
some of his best-loved pieces.
Imagine an entire
festival dedicated to string quartets, and you'll have an idea of what
goes on in Heidelberg every season.
Julien Pregardien and
Kit Armstrong team up for "A Winter's Journey" by Schubert, and the
splendid La Stagione Frankfurt give their brisk rendition of the
classics.
Star conductor Teodor
Currentzis has a fascinating program of 20th and 21st century music at
the festival Eight Bridges in Cologne.
Your host as always will be Rick Fulker, 6 to 8 PM Sundays on KDX
starting October 6th.
Friday September 27, 2019 4:28 PM CDT -- Word from the White House
We are half-cocked and bloated!
-
(This statement
was heard on a program earlier and is paraphrased here.)
Friday September 27, 2019 3:48 PM CDT -- Heads Too Small to Accomodate
Complete Thoughts
How
does this happen to so many Republican men? Years of research have paid
off and we've tracked the cause of unbelievable stupidity so prevalent
in today's population. It's the hats. No kidding. Not just MAGA hats,
all hats of the same kind nominally known as "baseball caps", "trucker
hats" and "Army private caps". They've become a fashion requisite in
these times and men wear them in the daytime, at night, and everywhere
socially. Men sit at table with their wife or girlfriend wearing those
hats. They show up at church like that. Now hold on, hold on, we're
getting to the point. Thing is by wearing these hats in the summertime
they trap head-heat and cause brains to shrink continually squeezing
out thoughts. As heads get smaller you've soon got a
beligerent
white nationalist talking about shooting up Planned Parenthood. The
right kind of hat for tropical comfort is the pith helmet which is
suspended away from the head by a specially designed head-band system
that allows air-circulation and cooling around the head. There is no
cost for this information, The Blare Blog is glad to help.
Thursday September 26, 2019 8:45 PM CDT -- Artisan Radio Responds to
Our Anonymous Debater Blog from Tuesday
Had to
laugh when I read in your blog that your anonymous e-mailer
wanted to debate
you. As far as I'm concerned, you don't give the time
of day to someone who
doesn't have the courage to attach their name to
what they write.
- Artisan Radio
Heck, sometimes I don't know who I am, so it might be a match.
Thursday September 26, 2019 8:39 PM CDT -- Hartford Calling
We're receiving a "5" signal from Brooce!
Hi Uncle
Carl!
I read
everything in your blog!
You've
got a lot of great stuff there that I really enjoyed.
As
mentioned - the Linux computer will be just for hearing KDX.
The computer crashes a lot, but my tablet has been used mainly for
internet stuff-- and this is because it has a pretty good "mag"
capability.
So -
just a couple of hours ago there was a pirate station on 1710 kHz - and
- unbelievably -- it was heard by AM BCB DXers from roughly Detroit to
NY and all sorts of places inbetween.
I
heard it also - but I was not near a radio - so I listened on a remote
controlled software defined receiver in Pennsylvania. Just
before I was able to take a receiver outside away from RF noise to try
to hear it - it vanished from the remote receiver in
PA. So it was then gone. The music it played
sounded like far eastern (Chinese sounding???) electronic
music. Not fun music to listen to at all. Very
generic and boring - awful sounding, really. Someone on an AM
DX Facebook page said the station was asking for reception
reports. But I did not hear those announcements.
My FM
DX tuner is coming back from being repaired. This is (by
widespread opinion) the most sensitive and selective FM tuner ever
made. The FM band is wall-to-wall with local signals - but I
still want to have the capability of hearing FM DX anyway. I
am also expecting loop antennas for longwave and 2 - 6 MHz.
They should be here next week.
Well,
I'd better try to sleep. The air conditioning is ON - but it
still feels like it's 90 degrees in here
Very
Best Wishes
Brooce
Brooce signs off for now.
Thursday September 26, 2019 8:23 PM CDT -- Word from Boomer
Hello Boomer! Welcome to The Blog. What do you have to say
for yourself?
Monday was
a holiday and I got to see your blog.
I too have seen those
directories with endless music station listings. I think if they could
rise any bit above those listings, they're already serious about
broadcasting and doing it somewhere else, like on Youtube or through
their own sites. It's more of a playground, but if you're someone like
The Legacy or ATrain's WHAR, directory space is a place you wouldn't
bother with.
As for male and female
voices getting higher these days, I've heard it too and thought the
cause was from smoking much less tobacco. Many male announcer voices
were deeper because of smoking, it's a distinctive sound I've heard on
old recordings. Actresses who smoke too, consider Suzanne Pleshette or
Lucille Ball going from a high lilt to deep and gravelly voices.
You
could be right about the cigarettes... the movie stars are always
smoking in every old movie. They also drink all the time when they're
either happy or upset, and that might cause "whiskey voice". Back to
you.
Another thing was radio
hired announcers with authoritative voices for news reading or as the
general station voice in the early days of radio. Recording processes
also dictated what voices were desirable, older recordings were
midrange, so you'd fit better with a higher voice, think Tiny Tim
quality, but back in the wind-up phonograph era.
Now I think the trend
is bright, youthful voices in the media, and informal announcing
styles, especially on sports talk radio, with all of the 'ah-umms'
included.
I've noticed women with
very high voices who sound like young kids. Maybe they're moms who talk
to their kids that way all day, or pet owners. I noticed it one day at
coffee, and if she wasn't talking about adult topics like her car, it
could have been a little girl's voice. She could voice a young
character in an animated movie or TV show like the Simpsons. A full
size adult woman. Use your talent for something..
Well,
they hired me and said they wanted an authoritative voice, but
I
found that sounding authoritative never went so well on date night.
One reason that radio
production is so tight nowadays is because of digital watermarking for
Neilsen ratings. In order to get the most 'hits' on the meters, station
audio has to be dense and wall to wall so that the digitally encoded
tones have some sound to ride along with at all times. Announcer reads
should always have a music bed behind them.
The overlaps being
tight, I hear that a lot now, and it's probably the automation making a
slight mistake at the crossfades, the silence detection, or the voice
track timing is off a bit.
It's a symptom of
auto-dj and automation, compared to a board operator playing cartridge
tapes and records. I recall stations having seconds of silence between
songs, or pauses between news headlines and you'd hear a teletype in
the background. Silence does help one to organize and contemplate, like
paragraphs in written blog postings do.
When I got my first
serious radio station going while in high school, I was very concerned
with music and how radio was dealing with it. Stations wanted to be
able to define their listeners by the kind of music they liked, and
played more of that kind of music. Not only was there competition
between stations, but it reflected in listeners taking sides, I'm a
rocker, or I like jazz so rock and roll is offensive. I think it
polarized people a lot more and it wasn't fun to live with that
genre-ism in school.
I defined my radio
station as freeform, or a 'true pop station', that played the best of
everything, that's what I tried for, within the limits of the music I
was able to get. I started to like music crossovers, like jazz rock,
classical rock, funk country, whatever could be creatively put
together, and I could hear it and think, 'Ah, I like what they did
here.'
As I roll on with the
music on my carrier-current station, it's still done that way, all
bagged together. I don't think my station is all that exciting, maybe
it could just be called 'interesting' or a curiosity, an uncommon
commercial free music station on AM radio. That's how I feel about it,
but even so I think it's a cut above, because radio has such a low
average intelligence to begin with, it doesn't take much to exceed it.
You
mention "musical crossovers" and I have a whole collection which I once
used on a classical station. I had the rock-n-roll version of an
overture by Mozart, the disco Beethoven's Fifth, the samba version of
Grieg's Piano Concerto, but the station didn't appreciate it.
As for sample and
bitrates in streaming, one thing you could do offer several bitrates of
the same program, one for desktop browser play, others for phones on a
data plan, so they can at least hear it. Examples are mp3 or ogg at
128k and higher, and Opus or AAC at 32k and lower. There are other
phone formats that can be used, but Opus seems to be the most free,
supported and unrestricted to use.
Ya, KDX has toyed around with digital formats and bitrates.
I hope you can get your
carrier current station going on 1510 AM! Fewer worries about neighbor
complaints, lightning, tuning transmitters mounted outside,
weatherproofing, or running audio and power links to distant
transmitters.
Range is self limiting,
staying within power lines in a neighborhood, or along a few streets
where the signal tends to be strong and then drop off rapidly outside
of that area. I've heard my carrier current signal a few miles away,
but it's so weak that the average person wouldn't stay to listen or
even notice it when tuning around.
Carrier current seems
to be better received in homes, I find lots of fading on a car radio,
where an antenna signal is better, more consistent in the car.
It's good if you're
able to get on a frequency that was deleted in your area too. Those
were carved out in the band plan for AM radio, and are often the
quietest frequencies in an area.
If you need tips on
your carrier current station, let me know. I notice that the K-Rocks
Radio site that was once a good CC reference is not on line right now.
Boomer
Thursday September 26, 2019 7:43 PM CDT -- Al Franken Update
Al Franken has been doing a podcast since spring.
Thursday September 26, 2019 7:12 PM CDT -- A Place to Plan
I
don't know where you do it, but I plan things in my head. At the moment
there are many plans up there. To name some, my head plans to virtually
light up the end of the AM radio band. By the time these plans are
manifest KDX will be heard at 1510, 1550, 1640, 1670, 1680 and 1710
kHz! At the present time we have enough actual transmitters, as opossed
to transmitters that only exist in the head, to do five of them. Let's
see, 1510 is an LPB AM-5 Carrier Current, 1550 is an AMT3000, 1640 is
an AMT3000, 1680 is AMT5000 and 1710 is Ramsey 25B. We only
need
one more! It's
amazing we can think of so many things with only one head. Space inside the
head is crammed compared to the vast expanse outside, yet you'd
sometimes think the opposite was true.
Thursday September 26, 2019 7:08 PM CDT -- Saturday Has Been Designated
It
will be World Safe Abortion Day. Anyone planning to have a safe
abortion should have it on Saturday. If that's how it is, I guess
Contraception Day didn't go as planned.
Wednesday September 25, 2019 5:48 PM CDT -- Al Franken Returning to
Radio
Plans a weekly radio show. If it becomes available to KDX
we will carry it!
Wednesday September 25, 2019 5:19 PM CDT -- A New Knock-Knock Joke
KNOCK-KNOCK
Who's there?
I don't know, would you see who it is?
Wednesday September 25, 2019 10:46 AM CDT -- A Name for Everything
The
ground around the Internet Building, home of KDX Worldround Radio, is
known as "Average Terrain Park" and a driveway connnects the public
road up through the park 100-feet to the building. We are
pleased
to announce the naming of the drive as "Wireless Way", although we
aren't sure how to get it registered with the GPS location-finding
system.
Wednesday September 25, 2019 7:10 AM CDT -- The Automobile
The automobile is a mechanism designed to make car radios
mobile.
Tuesday September 24, 2019 10:09 PM CDT -- The Fluidity of Word
Definitions
Realty and reality no longer have anything to do with each
other.
Tuesday September 24, 2019 8:54 PM CDT -- Next Designated Holiday
The Blog will be back Thursday for World Contraception Day.
Tuesday September 24, 2019 8:35 PM CDT -- Ever Changing
KDX
Worldround Radio is classed in several ways including "Experimental",
or, as we kiddingly like to say, "Mental and Experimental". Humor
aside, we have been dabbling with radio streaming technologies and are
exploring a return to the Shoutcast Directory, which was the original
directory of our origin when Nullsoft owned the platform. When
Shoutcast was taken over by Radionomy the connection was cut and we
migrated to Icecast which means two things: the underlying streaming
servers are different and the directories are separate. Over the course
of time Radionomy has become two streaming enterprises under one roof:
Radionomy for financially upscale radio and Shoutcast for smaller
starter operations. Our first concern in considering a renewed
relationship is whether it can be accomplished without running two
streaming servers.
Tuesday September 24, 2019 7:42 PM CDT -- We'll Have the Latest Time
for you in Ten Minutes
We'll tell you the time in words instead of numbers.
Tuesday September 24, 2019 7:32 PM CDT -- YES!!
My kind of guy.
Tuesday September 24, 2019 6:25 PM CDT -- Subjects and Topics
A few things I've recently been thinking about...
The
"debate" advice given by the Anonymous Emailer. Ya, I've been
mentioning the anonymous emails calling my opinions wrong and
suggesting that I participate in a debate but I think the anonymous
emailer already makes two blunders which we'll address: first, given
that he's anonymous, how would I know who to debate? And the other flaw
is that he seems to believe that "debates" are held to determine which
opinion is the correct one, and that's not what debates accomplish. An
educated understanding of the debate format tralizes that debates
are semi-formal academic competitions which determine the most
persuasive debater before a given audience. Very often the poorly
informed
competitor has the greater audience appeal but is still wrong once it's
all over. In my case since I know my opinions are correct based on
journalistic and scholarly investigation there would be no point giving
the wrongly informed opponent the time of day. For that matter we do
not have an audience at hand with the slightest interest in sitting
through such a useless exercise.
Then there's the contemporary
uproar over racism and sexism. I'm sick of the whole thing and intend
to clamp down where KDX policy is concerned, and now ban any reference
to anything racial or sexist no matter how it's framed. Even what I'm
saying now is banned and I must stop saying it at once.
On a
more creative note I'd seriously like to do a daily live show over all
of our media outlets, the AM, FM transmitters, the streaming radio
station, and this Blog. I've been mentioning that on thousands of
internet radio stations no one is doing anything live, which seems like
a wasted opportunity. Of course we'd record the show and re-air it
later
and make it available on the forthcoming Demand Radio page where the
best of radio will be offered for you as an industry insider.
Don't let me know how you feel about these things because
I can imagine.
Tuesday September 24, 2019 5:28 PM CDT -- The HEBA Medium Wave Antenna
The KDX Engineering Department first learned about the
HEBA medium wave antenna on "This Week in Radio Tech":
Tuesday September 24, 2019 4:57 PM CDT -- Being Punctilious
The
following words are related one to the other: point, pointwise,
punctilious, punctuate, punctuality and punctuation. You See? We know
even less about the English language than you thought. I'll let you
study it while I'm busy setting up our "Punctuation Display" using
litlle punctuation fonts downloaded from the keyboard.
? ! , . " : ;
Tuesday September 24, 2019 6:35 AM CDT -- Punctuation Day
Sunday, September 22, 2019 9:05 PM CDT -- A Moment of Pastafarian
Warship
Sunday September 22, 2019 8:48 PM CDT -- The Autumnal Equinox
Sunday September 22, 2019 7:38 PM CDT -- Tort Law Day
Just
announced on this weekend's Ralph Nader Radio Hour... October 5th will
be Tort Law Day starting this year. Whereas the significance for our
purposes is that The Blare Blog remains open on these special
commemerative days, except that this year it comes on a Saturday when
The Blog is already open. So we'll be open in stereo. Of course in
succeeding years October 5th will fall during the week if only we
remember any of this.
Sunday September 22, 2019 5:49 PM CDT -- Whiz Dumbs of our Four Fathers
Haystacks have gotten to
be more scarce than needles.
- Carl Blare, less than 10-minutes ago
Pots tend to say things
about kettles.
- Carl Blare, earlier today
Most of the known universe remains unknown
- Carl Blare, before noon
I don't doubt reality but I think reality doubts me.
- Carl Blare over breakfast
Sunday September 22, 2019 4:07 PM CDT -- It Happens So Slowly You
Barely Notice
Over
the course of the past several decades the once deep voices of male
humans have been slowly rising in pitch at about an octave per decade
so that men today have upper mid-range voices and in years to come will
be in the soprano range. With women the change isn't exactly the same
as their voices are sounding increasingly younger and more girlish so
that mature women of the present day sound like grade schoolers and in
the near future will sound like toddlers. The cause of these voice
effects is of course plastic. For some reason green plastic is the
worst but it all plays a role.
Sunday September 22, 2019 3:27 PM CDT -- WEATHER
Rain is dropping from a darkened sky. For more on this we
take you to Lightning Maps.
Sunday September 22, 2019 3:01 PM CDT -- Vanishing Birds
Sunday September 22, 2019 12:57 NOON CDT -- Don't Forget Tomorrow
Tomorrow
is a Designated Holiday for The Blare Blog which always means we'll be
open for fun. Do you know what we'll be celebrating? We'll probably spend
the day planting a beer garden, as recommended by Reverend Stang on
"The Hour of Slack".
We're feeling pretty good now that the climate has been saved. I mean,
isn't that what was accomplished by Friday's CLIMATE STRIKE away from
school and office holding parades and rock parties everywhere on earth?
Saturday September 21, 2019 7:08 AM CDT -- The Strike
The
world of most Americans continued unperturbed yesterday with little
notice paid by domestic radio to the historic GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE
taking place around the world inspired by Swedish activist Greta
Thunberg. From our vantage here in the center of north america
we
monitored radio stations across the country hearing no mention of the
Great Event. The hold on licensed radio frequencies by right-trash
corporate "conservatism" is almost totally pervasive giving no voice to
serious reality, force-feeding a gag-reflex of movie and sports trivia
from the usual vomiteers such as Rush Limbsaw, who never saw a pork he
didn't eat, and Sean "Sanity" Hannity, the worst haircut on radio.
At the same time, down the dial, conformunist public radio
took
time away from their national mortuary service to panhandle because it
costs money to panhandle. Appropriate to the occasion comes word that
3-billion fewer birds populate the sky owing to the very causes being
ignored.
Saturday September 21, 2019 6:16 AM CDT -- Free Speech in Limited Supply
Speech may be free but don't
take it all.
- Carl Blare
Friday September 20, 2019 ALL DAY -- GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE
KDX Worldround Radio Participates in the GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE inspired
by 16-year old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.
Thursday September 19, 2019 6:35 PM CDT -- Sign of Life in Streamland
Frequent
tours of the several thousand stations streaming at the Icecast
directory turn up thousands of music music music music stations with no
sign of life within the acres and miles and piles and mass congestions
of more music hit music every genre no voice no person just music
endless tunes from the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, high school
memories nothing but, all day over and over again and again.
But
last night I found a lone stream delivering voices and talk and
conversation called 3950.net. What it sounds like to me is the audio
feed from an amateur shortwave HAM relay station. I listened for
awhile, wondering if re-transmission of shortwave conversations was
legal but I'm not an enforcement agent so it's not something to be
concerned about but I just wonder
and I'm sure it's safe to listen or at least I hope it is
now I'm worried.
Thursday September 19, 2019 4:10 PM CDT -- Ideal Radio House
Think of the ways a low power radio station could fit
perfectly into this wonderful building.
Thursday September 19, 2019 8:23 AM CDT -- About Public Radio
Public radio sounds like a hosted mortuary service.
Thursday September 19, 2019 7:54 AM CDT -- Humanity's Destruction is
Not Relevant to Low Power Radio (moderator part15.org)
Wednesday September 18, 2019 7:01 PM CDT -- When the Medium is the Only
Message
We've
talked about the greater share of low power broadcasters who love hit
music from high school above all, even when they're in their eighties.
Only 1% of us make a mission out of airiing cultural content serving
the higher mind, somewhat of a rare commodity this close to the Bible
belt. And there's an even more specialized sub-set of radio buffs who
simply like the equipment for what it does. It transmits frequencies
and can be heard far away. It's tantamount to a construction worker
loving pliers and wrenches completely apart from anything you can
build or repair with them.
Tuesday September 17, 2019 5:42 AM CDT -- Constitution Day in the U.S.
It
was a radio broadcast at 3-something this morning that informed us of
Constitution Day so it's been added to our List of Designated Holidays
upon which The Blare Blog is Open for Web Tourists.
Monday September 16, 2019 7:14 PM CST -- The Power Increase Hasn't Come
Through
However,
it should be noted that KDX hasn't applied for a power increase. It
would just be nice if they once in awhile granted them anyway.
Monday September 16, 2019 6:59 PM CDT -- The Sun is Going Down and It's
Getting Dark
Are you sure this is normal?
Monday September 16, 2019 6:55 PM CDT -- Examples of Irrelevant Things
This picture has nothing to do with radio and would never
fly over at the forum site.
Monday September 16, 2019 6:13 PM CDT -- Sound Effects Forever
Monday September 16, 2019 5:47 PM CDT -- Land Plans
KDX
has no plans to re-locate to a cruise ship at open sea and will remain
on land as far from the coast lines as possible. Nor will we move into
re-conditioned train cars moving around the rail networks. We will
continue to operate from a fixed position anchored to the ground but
are converting this website into a Virtual Theme Park for Radio
Hobbyists.
Monday September 16, 2019 5:43 PM CDT -- Brick or Parking Garage
Reacting
to our posts about cruise ships Bruce says they remind him of floating
bricks, but I see it differently. To me the huge container ships look
like bricks and cruise ships look like floating parking garages. The
phones are open so you can tell us what cruise ships look like to you.
Monday September 16, 2019 10:46 AM CDT -- Quality Boost
Streaming station KDX-OGG has just doubled its audio
sample rate from 22,050 Hz to 44.100 Hz. Reception
comparisons between the two are underway and will determine which
setting is better under general conditions. There are two issues that
often stand in contrast to each other: The higher sampling rate
incrementally increases the received audio quality, but more demand is
put on the the listener's internet service and CPU.
Monday September 16, 2019 8:45 AM CDT -- The Retro Look
This thing looks alright.
Sunday September 15, 2019 7:28 PM CDT -- What Are They Going to Do
About Us?
"Us"
includes all who fail or refuse to subscribe to "mobile" which of
course refers to cell phones. At KDX we have a land line and
will
never
buy into the cell phone push. But the world is coming to expect mobile
presence and this could soon effect hireability and acceptability as we
are scrutinized for web certification. Already growing numbers of the
population are being disenfranchised over matters other than phone
affiliation, the homeless are of interest only to the degree they can
be dispersed to "somewhere else", with no such place being accepting of
them. It is
significant that
today's policy makers adamantly defend the unborn by prohibiting
abortion, but advocate riddance toward the long born by herding them
elsewhere. It
is too often the leaders and policy makers who need to be quarantined
so the rest of us can rest.
Sunday September 15, 2019 5:56 PM CDT -- Stop Butting
Modern
radio production would have it that every song and announcement be so
closely butted together that in some cases one is stiil heard while the
other starts. That is not always the best practice. There are times
with some material that calculated silence becomes appropriate.
Sunday September 15, 2019 3:41 PM CDT -- I Can't Remember
An idea flowed into my thoughts leading to an instant
impulse to blog about it but then...
What was it? Can't I remember? The thought has got to be right there,
ready to re-connect. But
it's dormant and all I know is that there was this idea. It was good too. Despite
not knowing what it was I have the deep confidence it was, frankly, an
excellent idea, proving again how smart I can be when I actually say
something prior to forgetting what it was.
Sunday September 15, 2019 3:21 PM CDT -- Free Wi-Fi in the Package
I'm
still ruminating about the cruise ship concept where they get you
captive and subject you to an unending trail of credit card charges
while you quietly plow through vast miles of salt water on the way to
other credit card moments. This next shipboard tour via steadicam is
hosted by the cam operator who does a splendid narration except when
the wind blows his microphone or the waves below override the
hearability and because of the quantity of mirrors we occasionally see
the cameraman in reflection prior to a turn down another
corridor.
In
this sequence we learn of courtesy binoculars for the event of a whale
sighting, special TV channels with new release movies, yoga mats,
towels and flip-flops, showers with anti-smog mirrors, frequent
drinking stations with still water and sparkling water, spa, hot tub,
steam room, sauna, wading pool, diving pool, jogging track, heated
floors and laminated wood railings.
Please
understand us. We're not railing against ocean cruises, although they
are seemingly irrelevant to low power radio, we're exploring talk show
content that might interest listeners. The fact is, EVERYTHING IN THE
UNIVERSE is relevant to radio broadcasting!
Sunday September 15, 2019 12:21 NOON CDT -- The Most Expensive Boredom
Money Can Buy
Do
I have dementia or Alzheimers? Can't decide which. All I see is
furniture. Acres and rows and columns of furniture, and edibles, mouth
watering crunchy sweets and fried crispy meats, pools, saunas, so much
water. Yet
how dry I am. To the bar!
Saturday September 14, 2019 8:35 PM CDT -- In a Few Words
A music genre
is a conventional category that identifies pieces of music as belonging
to a shared tradition or set of conventions. It is to be distinguished
from musical form and musical style,
although in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
There are numerous
genres in Western classical music and popular music, as well as musical
theatre and the music of non-Western cultures. The term is now perhaps
over-used to describe relatively small differences in musical style in
modern rock music, that also may reflect sociological differences in
their audiences. Timothy Laurie
suggests that in the context of rock and pop music studies, the "appeal
of genre criticism is that it makes narratives out of musical worlds
that often seem to lack them".
Music can be divided into different genres in several ways.
The artistic nature of music means that these classifications are often
arbitrary and controversial, and some genres may overlap. There are
several academic approaches to genres. In his book Form in
Tonal Music, Douglass M. Green lists madrigal, motet, canzona,
ricercar, and dance as examples of genres from the Renaissance period.
According to Green, "Beethoven's Op. 61 and
Mendelssohn's Op. 64 are identical in
genre – both are violin concertos – but different in
form. However, Mozart's Rondo for Piano, K. 511,
and the Agnus Dei from his Mass, K. 317
are quite different in genre but happen to be similar in form." Some,
like Peter van der Merwe, treat the terms genre and
style as the same, saying that genre
should be defined as pieces of music that share a certain style or
"basic musical language".
Others, such as Allan F. Moore, state that genre
and style
are two separate terms, and that secondary characteristics such as
subject matter can also differentiate between genres. A music genre or
subgenre may be defined by the musical techniques, the styles, the
context, and content and spirit of the themes. Geographical origin is
sometimes used to identify a music genre, though a single geographical
category will often include a wide variety of subgenres.
Several music scholars have criticised the priority accorded to
genre-based communities and listening practices. For example, Laurie
argues that "music genres do not belong to isolated, self-sufficient
communities. People constantly move between environments where diverse
forms of music are heard, advertised and accessorised with distinctive
iconographies, narratives and celebrity identities that also touch on
non-musical worlds."
- Re-Printed from Wikipedia under Creative Commons.
Saturday September 14, 2019 8:16 PM CDT -- Older and Wiser is Sometimes
True
We've
met a lot of oldsters who never managed to get wiser with age, but I
think in our case we've fulfilled the prophesy and have become slightly
wise in some respects. Take dating for example. I've always known how
to meet women but no longer seek opportunities to do so
because of
becoming stingy about time. What is dating but time spent getting to
know one-another but I am not about to take time away from the radio
station to accept cruise ship invitations or dancing at the castle.
However, there is a way that could work... if I let women know that I
have no time for socializing but invite them to volunteer at the radio
station what I'd do is train them to operate the transmitters and
compile the programming setting me free to roam around "on station
business" and socialize with other women. What could possibly go wrong?
Saturday September 14, 2019 6:18 PM CDT -- Stray Genres
"Genre"
has gotten into the lexicon for describing the "Category" or "Type" of
programming heard on radio stations. There are tons of genres in the
music realm starting with rock, alternative rock, oldies, grunge, punk,
rap, jazz, classical, disco and so many more. Non-musical genres
include news, talk, Christian, right-wing hate, and sports. The Icecast
Directory lists some genres that are interesting... "Misc", which of
course means miscellaneous; "Null" which puzzles me but probably means
something; "Radio" which promises to be comprehensive of anything;
"Unspecified" which leaves us to wonder what we're hearing; "Various"
which can also be said "Variety"; and these two: "Alternative" and
"Progressive". Earlier we mentioned "Alternative Rock" which so-far as
we know is a specific breed of music, but the world is loaded with
alternatives including alternative medicine and alternative news on the
internet. "Progressive" I think is a particular musical category but
it's also a leftist political wing and can refer to people who are
futuristic and inventive. For a short time we added "Think" to
our
genre description, but I got to thinking and removed it. Fact is, and
we've mentioned it before, the station genres listed on web directories
don't mean much because so many stations simply claim every
possible genre so as to over-populate the directories in a
desperate bid to be noticed. Maybe KDX should list "None". Or, this
thought is just now forming, maybe the "genre" space can be re-purposed
to carry some other message. I think for fun I'll put: "The Radio
Station of the Internet". Later that same day, the new test message is:
"God set you on the path to hell. Jesus can save you." And finally, to
wrap this up for now, I think we'll use the Genre Generator on our
Stream Server to publish maxims, aphorisms, platitudes, and the
occasional promotional plug. This is getting to be fun.
Saturday September 14, 2019 1:11 PM CDT -- Poem for My President
At
10:07 this morning our Incoming Message from Boomer contained several
things that prompt a response. Ya know, when ya think about it, adding
a few public information programs to a music format might be the ideal
format. Anyway I admire the approach, so good! Do that! And the Live
Boomer Show once a week has our super interest and we wonder if we
could get a link so our Friends of the Blog can overhear? Lastly is the
matter of "stinky flatus", which reminds me of POTUS, providing perhaps
the basis for a poem in the Rose Garden.
Saturday September 14, 2019 12:58 NOON CDT -- News of Bruce
There
have been no inquiries regarding the recent silence of Bruce in
Hartford so I'll respond in case anyone has withheld their curiosity
and sits there hoping we'll bring it up anyway. Last week by telephone
Bruce announced a new SDR (Software Defined Radio) with a steep
learning curve so he's been deeply into it and said he'd file a Blog
report the minute he knows anything. His new dog Jimmy which shunned
hin at first is beginning to accept him and often tries to attract
Bruce away from the SDR for more dog oriented activities.
Saturday September 14, 2019 12:29 NOON CDT -- Word From Canada
I just caught up with the
Blare Blog, and read with interest Boomer's update and
thoughts. I have to say that I agree with him regarding the
actions of the moderator over at Part15.org and the Journalism thread.
It's just common
sense. The Forum is there to serve its participants, not the
moderator's personal opinions. If someone is willing to spend
the time and effort to publish facts and/or their thoughts that touch
even remotely on Part 15 broadcasting (and that don't include such
obvious taboos such as bigotry and racism, sexism, etc.), then to
offhandedly dismiss them as irrelevant is insulting. Why
would that individual bother to post again? Why would anyone,
particularly newcomers?
When it comes to
moderation, less is more, at least in my opinion.
- Artisan Radio
Saturday September 14, 2019 10:07 AM CDT -- Incoming Signal from Boomer
the Dog
Hello? Hello? Are you there?
Blog check-in.
I saw the journalism
being rebuffed by the Junk Yard Dog, and it annoyed me too; that part
of my brain that detects unfairness was set off. It doesn't seem like
the Junk Yard Dog spends that much time on the group, fewer posts and
replies, so maybe he took a quick glance for moderation purposes and
flagged it without reading with depth.
I think music stations
are good, even ones that play your favorite hits from high school. It's
still an alternative to corporate, network radio, and an act of
disobedience to commercial radio that only wants you to listen to
themselves. Still, it's good to be asked if we might be able to do
something more with the special opportunity we have. Most Part-15
stations put a good bit of time and technical effort into establishing
their stations on the air, and is it really the end of the cycle, just
to be on the air?
I'm mostly music based,
I'm on AM and there's not a lot of music on AM. I do C-QUAM AM stereo,
and music is good to show off the high fidelity through stereophonic
sound. I'm an experimenter, so I work on my sound and signal a lot,
trying different things. I run a few shows from the internet, like
Radio Survivor, and do a live show once a week, as well as have friends
stream in and broadcast them live, but it's mostly music on Auto_DJ.
I'd like to do more, and perhaps if the P-15 groups encouraged
discussion of programming, it could give stations some ideas for their
own listeners.
With historically low
attendance numbers at P15 org, now would be the time to loosen up on
moderation. With fewer overall posts to the group, one negative post is
like an oversized elephant in the room, and it hangs around like a
stinky flatus in the air.
Boomer
Saturday September 14, 2019 9:37 AM CDT -- Let Me Explain
The
world is self organizing and then along come the humans who have their
own ideas about how things should be arranged so they rip everything
apart and use their own maps and plans which must be perpetually
maintained and repaired because the earth keeps trying to get back to
its own original plan and persistently undoes the human mess. Unlike
the world, the human mind is empty and disordered but continues to fill
up with falsities until minds are completely misinformed at which time
they try for a career in politics so they can be paid to spread their
own confusion onto everyone else. We
each choose our own strain of disarray and defend it mightily using
such tools as speech, written word, and body language together with
technical inventions such as guns and keyboards. Even upon realizing
our fate there is nothing we can do about it so giving up and
withdrawing into a hopeless gloom makes perfect sense.
SaturdaySeptemner 14,
2019 8:54 AM CDT -- Our Stable Genius Assures Us
Thank you for the reminder.
Saturday September 14, 2019 8:42 AM CDT -- We Interupt This Blog
This Just In...
Friday September 13, 2013 4:13 PM CDT -- From the Other Side of My Mouth
Having
criticized all the music stations for being so damn common I also
realize that having the power to transmit favorite songs over radio is
a wonderful pleasure. Ya, I'd go up to the 3rd floor and start "Rumble-
by Link Wray" (1957) over the Knight Phono Oscillator,
then rush over across the balcony to the
attic room and tune it at 1630 kHz and the voice coil thumped with
exquisite wrang. So, I know what you're doing and why you're doing it.
I still get the same rush when I transmit my own voice and listen to
what I'm saying and marvel at how the microphone diaphragm sent it to
the transistors and out over the Internet and while anyone in 400
countries could have heard it they didn't which is amazing.
Friday September 13, 2019 3:12 PM CDT -- When Journalism is Banned
Perhaps
central to my departing several low power radio forum sites is their
unfortunate practice of counting journalism as "off topic". The fact
that three forum sites have a similar attitude is not by design or
collusion but by plain coincidence. There happen to be white
nationalist webmasters at two of the sites and a starched pants
conservative moderator at the third. These people are guardians of a
party-line and do their part to quash points of view outside of
what main-stream media would present. They profess the "fake
news" mantra of their Fuhrer Donald Trump.
These forum sites
claim to represent legitimate low power broadcasters regarding
technical and programming issues and most members patter on about the
hit music in their playlists and there's no objection from the referees
but news talk stations come under scrutiny in the campaign to abolish
investigative journalism that might expose the lies and omissions of
right wing hate radio.
All this to say that it's happened again
with an otherwise excellent posting at one of the sites by RadioPhvern,
a Blare Blog Correspondent. Here's what he shared:
The
news story as approached by RadioPhvern is an excellent example of
first-rate journalism for reasons that should be obvious. He is not
promoting a "theory" about what happened on 9\11 nor is he inferring
anything about the "truthiness" of the so-called "official story". He
is simply presenting facts about what the N.Y. Fireboard did and
mentioned that the story was otherwise buried by mainstream media,
which gives additional dimension to the matter. But instead of
commending RadioPhvern for excellence in news broadcasting, he was
cornered by a junk-yard dog of a moderator who said:
A
reminder: this forum is about supporting Part 15
radio. I
fail to see how the original post is relevant in this regard. Also,
anyone posting links should at least give a synopsis of the content so
others do not waste time on things which do not interest
them. It
would be helpful if those posting links add their own original reasoned
comments concerning the link content rather than just dumping them here.
The
rudeness of that STOP SIGN is stunning. This moderator is rendering
judgments on behalf of an imagined set of participants whose time (he
concludes) will be wasted by an example of excellent journalism.
The true reaction to the incident, by me at least, is
disapproval and disgust for asinine moderation.
Another radio program on point:
Thursday September 12, 2019 10:54 AM CDT -- Yogi Berra was a Famous
Baseball Player
Berra was also well known for his impromptu pithy comments, malapropisms, and seemingly
unintentional witticisms,
known as "Yogi-isms". His "Yogi-isms" very often took the form of
either an apparent tautology
or a contradiction, but often
with an underlying and powerful message that offered not just humor,
but also wisdom. Allen Barra has described them as "distilled bits of
wisdom which, like good country songs and old John Wayne movies, get to
the truth in a hurry."
Examples
- "90 percent of baseball is mental; the other half is
physical."
- On why he no longer went to Rigazzi's, a St. Louis
restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
- "It
ain't over till it's over." At the time he said this, in July 1973,
Berra's Mets trailed the Chicago Cubs by 9½ games in the National
League East. The Mets rallied to clinch the division title in their
second-to-last game of the regular season, and eventually reach the
World Series.
- When
giving directions to Joe Garagiola Sr. to his New Jersey home, which
was accessible by two routes: "When you come to a fork in the road,
take it."
- At Yogi Berra Day at Sportsman Park in St. Louis: "Thank
you for making this day necessary."
- "It's
déjà vu all over again." Berra explained that this quote originated
when he witnessed Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris repeatedly hitting
back-to-back home runs in the Yankees' seasons in the early 1960s.
- "You can observe a lot by watching."
- "Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise they won't
go to yours."
- "I really didn't say everything I said."
- "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore"
- "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."
- The reference to Yogi Berra comes from Wikipedia under Creative
Commons.
Thursday September 12, 2019 10:42 AM CDT -- Unidentified Object from
Interstellar Space
It's coming this way and they don't know what it is.
Thursday September 12, 2019 8:42 AM CDT -- "The" Remains Public Property
Attempt to take the word "the".
Thursday September 12, 2019 6:58 AM CDT -- KLOK is Taken
Turned on as we are over the repair and improvement of our
Time Spitter
radio clock we opened inquiry into names and labels that can be applied
to aspects of the mechanism including possible new call letters like
"KLOK", but found that California stations KLOK and KLOK-FM thought of
them first, although I doubt they spend time emulating WWV. San Jose
station KLOK 1170 AM has 50,000 Watts and KLOK-FM 30,000 Watts while
KDX operates with 1/10th Watt for its efficiency... our power bills are
much lower.
Thursday September 12, 2019 6:21 AM CDT -- Time Service
KDX
has filled non-program time with time. We managed to hack together an
imitation of WWV, the Bureau of Standards Time Station, ours being
inaccurate to within 1-minute. Trouble is it stopped working for
reasons unknown and that got us very confused because no one remembered
how we did it in the first place. So, naturally, we became preoccupied
about it and started reading manuals and making scribbled notes until
at 3 AM this morning we awoke out of a dream in which we'd noticed the
air conditioner had been yanked out of its regular window and set
ackwardly in the wrong window. That's when we knew how to repair the
KDX clock and even came up with a name for it - Time Spitter.
We also realized a simpler way of generationg time, although will
always be proud of having previously figured out a complicated way of
doing it. This time we added expansion opportunities by having a gap
every 20-minutes where we can wedge in other vital data, whatever that
might end up being after we've thought of something such as perhaps
planetary information or bus schedules.
Wednesday September 11, 2019 3:37 PM CDT -- The Pentagon's Christian
Outreach
Sign up today and become a "soldier of Christ" or burn in
hell for all eternity.
Wednesday September 11, 2019 8:30 AM CDT -- John Bowlbrush Shown the
Door
Now
where will ex-National Security Adviser John Bowlbrush aim his war
mongering hatred of other peoples in other lands? No longer able to
push for wars against the world Bowlbrush was sent to the streets by
the Fuhrer.
With that guy gone we have reason to celebrate.
Tuesday September 10, 2019 3:51 PM CDT -- Lightning Up
After
that last blog about the contamination of Republican corruption we
should lighten up. Or did I say lightning up. Watch this and decide:
Based on a thread by Artisan Radio at part15.org on an entirely
other subject.
Tuesday September 10, 2019 2:18 OM CDT -- Right Wing Republican Rot
A
Wikipedia search for "progressive news websites" produced a list
including not a single of the many well established progressive sites
and instead leaning toward "fake news" and "propaganda sites". This
tactic of misdirection and obfuscation is a typical hallmark of the
conservative right and is not what one expects from the "Free
Online Encyclopedia". MAGA
maggots and festering decay have infected the reference library.
Tuesday September 10, 2019 7:30 AM CDT -- When Radio WAD
The call sign "WAD" was recently proposed for future use
and Correspondent Bruce has something to say:
WAD
was the real callsign of a marine ship-to-shore station from 1939 until
about 1975.
It
operated in the 2-3 MHz band and other higher marine bands.
It
probably also had receive and transmit on 500 kHz, which was one of the
international distress frequencies. The main one, I'm sure -
in the early days of radio.
Best
Wishes
Brooce
Just
one question, Bruce: when we talk about "marine" are we taling about
the United States Marines, the military outfit, or do we mean "marine"
in the oceanic sense(?)
Tuesday September 10, 2019 7:18 AM CDT -- Solutions and Improvements
KDX
Worldround Radio has been offline more than usual this week
troubleshooting software and hardware problems and today report
complete success and better audio quality than before. There
is a good reason for the audio improvement... Stereo Tool is back in
our signal chain after an absence while I was "too busy" to get around
to solving a certain issue that arose... It happens that KDX stopped
using Winamp as our automation service with its DSP Plugin Version of
Stereo Tool and moved to Zara Automation with the Stereo Tool Stand
Alone Version which did not know we were registered to use it and every
20-minutes faded into a distorted condition as a reminder that "this
software hasn't been paid for". Now that I've finally looked into it,
we located the FAQ instruction for copying and pasting our registration
credentials and we never had to trouble the inventor, Hans von Zutphen.
Long story long, Stereo Tool matches the best of today's hardware rack
audio processing equipment and gives our audio a live sparkle which
surpasses the result from the temporary SONOS Compressor/Limiter used
during the interim.
Monday September 9, 2019 11:47 AM CDT -- Security Watch
Please report anything that bears reporting.
Monday September 9, 2019 11:31 AM CDT -- Declaring Blog Week
The
Annual Holidays between Christmas and New Years Day are hereby Blog
Week during which The Blare Blog will stay open the whole week.
Monday September 9, 2019 11:21 AM CDT -- Decision to
Remain Inland
Not
a traveler, we none the less enjoy vicarious quick trips via YouTube
with a
combined interest in multi modal transportation technology and
impatient curiosity about other earth locations. Rail travel is a
favorite and we expanded into sea voyaging to encounter a fellow who
spoke about his $100 per-day living arrangement aboard a cruise ship.
Responding to the idea personally, we opted against taking up
quarters aboard a cruise liner due to a likelihood that low power radio
operation would not integrate well from within metal walls. We'll stay
put here in the Internet Building built on fertile soil just above a
rich layer of clay.
Monday September 9, 2019 11:16 AM CDT -- BRAINING
Until
this very moment "braining" hasn't been a real word, but as of now it
is a new word invented by me, Carl Blare. It is a substitute for the
general word "thinking" but applies to focused creative thinking such
as it takes to come up with new words.
We have been doing a lot of braining this morning.
Sunday September 8, 2019 8:25 AM CDT -- Morning of Dark Rain Thunder
Bravely KDX operates under a dark flickering sky bypassing
the usual policy of closing during severe weather.
Saturday September 7, 2019 5:29 PM CDT -- KDX is Joined By Two
Additional Radio Stations
Station
KHZ has been around for a few years, transmitter AMT3000,
destined to become an antenna experimental project, but has not gotten
started. Then another call-sign beams into my head... KPU...a station
for location near the dumpster. A big metallic dumpster could serve as
a ground-plane. Stinky air... P U! By the way how is the actual word
spelled? It is a word, right? PeeYou!
Saturday September 7, 2019 4:20 PM CDT -- Seth Andrews of "The Thinking
Atheist" program as heard on KDX
Saturday September 7, 2019 1:41 PM CDT -- Mystery Downage
Startup
procedure came to a halt this morning when essential computor network
failure
prevented KDX from opening website and radio servers.
Close
to 8-hours spent exploring the symptoms finally led to recovery. It is
believed that software upgrades to our malware security program
possibly conflicted with communications software. Reverting to
pre-update conditions opened the way to renewed functionality. A
similar problem several years ago was also caused by security
software that interferred with key operational applications.
Wednesday September 4, 2019 7:12 PM CDT -- Summer Reading
The MAGA hat is a quick
read.
- Ian Scholls, Philosopher on the Philosophy Talk radio program
Wednesday September 4, 2019 6:17 PM CDT -- New Bargains
KDX
now operates two back-to-back shopping mauls for your sales dollar:
Medicine Mall and Smilers' Mall! The KDX Radio Shed, in addition to
long time favorites - Genuine Placebo Pills in the Little Brown
Medicinal
Bottles and Brackish Water in Deluxe Over-Sized Plastic Jugs-
we
now have two more great products! Try our Pure Liquid Mercury and
Multi-Colored Micro-Plastic Pellets so you can Get Them Directly Into
Your System without extracting them from decomposing dead fish
remnants! We are
here for you and you are with us when you're here! From Pseudo
Science Labs. As
advertised on the George Noway Show - Shore to Shore PM.
Wednesday September 4, 2019 11:55 AM CDT -- The Naming of a Day
As
one of thousands of low power radio stations on the planet it
seems we should have a special day to celebrate what we do.
We've
added "Planetary Low Power Radio Day" for June 1st, using the date when
KDX started formal streaming in 2007.
We
also need an alternative name for what is commonly called "New Year's
Eve". What are the four main things people do that night every year?
They change the batteries in their calendar, stay up past bedtime,
drink a bottle or two, and try to find someone to kiss. Can those
things be wrapped up in a single name?
By the way, we've also added Cosplay Day, "Costume Play Day", on
October 31st.
Tuesday September 3, 2019 7:18 PM CDT -- KDX Gains 1510 kHz for Carrier
Current Tests
It happened by default. We got wind that the local 1510
had gone defunct and this is what we turned up:
On March 4,
2019, WQQW went silent, citing the following:
WQQW IS HAVING ISSUES WITH TRANSMITTER
STABILITY/RELIABILITY IN THAT IT HAS REPEATEDLY TURNED ITSELF OFF FOR
UNKNOWN REASONS. IN ADDITION, WQQW IS EXPERIENCING ISSUES WITH IP
DELIVERY OF PROGRAMMING FROM MAIN STUDIO TO TRANSMITTER SITE, RESULTING
IN LOSS OF BROADCAST PROGRAMMING. WQQW EXPECTS TO REMAIN SILENT FOR 90
DAYS WHILE IT TROUBLESHOOTS AND DETERMINES A SOLUTION TO BOTH THE
PROGRAMMING DELIVERY ISSUE AND THE TRANSMITTER RELIABILITY ISSUE.
WQQW
was 1 kW daytime. The "Notification of Suspension of Operations" was
submitted to the FCC March 5, 2019, so obviously they've not managed to
return to operation within the predicted 90-days. What's more, WQQW is
one of four stations owned by this licensee and all of the licenses are
now scheduled for a Revocation Hearing because of a complaint filed
with the FCC.
We notice that the listing for WQQW is fully removed from Radio
Locator.org
Tuesday September 3, 2019
5:43 PM CDT -- Bad Show
Positioned among the low power radio stations of North
America, KDX Worldround Radio maintains affiliations and associations
with many small broadcasters in business and hobby, but we have one
overall disappointment about how it's being practiced by the majority
of them. The greater majority of micro stations tend to be automated
hit music playlists with no live human personality.
Past radio wasn't memorable for playing hit music, it is remembered
because of the glib disk jockeys hosting the music, now lost and
forgotten to the fading years.
We have recently listened to thousands of small independent streaming
radio stations on the internet and viewed lists of stations utilizing
low power transmitters and there's a vast oversupply of dumb mindless
operations cranking out endless musical regurgitation to zero audience. Needlessly
pointless unnecessary radio.
My advice is consider yourselves failures and find a high
ledge to look down from until the emergency team arrives.
Monday September 2, 2019 6:54 PM CDT -- OPERATION STORMWATCH
Throughout the day we have been monitoring WFLA NewsTalk
from Orlando Florida keeping
track of Hurricane Dorian.
Monday September 2, 2019 1:20 PM CDT -- Door No. 1
Bruce writes:
I got
out yesterday and went to the 50,000 watt flamethrower, WTIC, AM 1080,
FM 96.5, and channel "3," well - they still call it channel 3 even
though it isn't.
That's
WFSB, CBS - over the air UHF channel 31 digital, otherwise known as
ATSC 1.0.
So
this is the transmitter building I'm talking about.
It was
a huge installation, with backups upon backups upon backups.
(And then more back-ups.). WTIC is the primary 'emergency alert'
station for CT and even some of Mass.
My
phone had run down so I couldn't take any pictures.
The
phone was getting recharged when I took the tour.
On my
way out I picked up the phone and got a picture of the front door of
the building -- built in 1922 -- almost 100 years old now.
Here's that shot.
Monday September 2, 2019 1:15 PM CDT -- What is August 20th?
Bruce writes:
By the
way - did you know that August 20 is (was) National Radio
Day?? I didn't know until I heard it on local WDRC 1360
5 kW
just down the road. (WDRC was the first radio station in CT
by the way.)
Anyway
I think it's called National Radio Day. Did the NAB just
come out with it recently? Well... I bet they did.
Best
Wishes
Brooce
Monday September 2, 2019 11:37 AM CDT -- Ignorance is Protected by the
1st Amendment
Here is a minister who preaches that school science causes
mass shootings.
The
trope "people are made
in the image of God" is tantamount to saying
that "the image of God is caused by poor digital reception" otherwise
it wouldn't be so distorted.
Sunday September 1, 2019 10:48 PM CDT -- To Change or Not to Change
Just heard a good one on the Stuphfile Program hosted by
Peter Anthony Holder and carried weekly on KDX:
Men look at women and
hope they never change, while women see men and hope they'll change.
Sunday September 1, 2019 9:23 AM CST -- SIGN ON ANNOUNCEMENT
The Blare Blog resumes
operation for a
new month, September 2019, bringing thoughts and opinions of Carl Blare
to the international community during a time of decline for the planet
and the species as we enter extinction from a beginner's point of view.
The Blog is a side-channel of KDX Worldround Radio transmitting from
the Internet Building located in Average Terrain Park, Center
of
North America, FEMA Region 7. KDX-OGG streams globally on the internet
and, for
listeners within 200-feet KDX AM and FM can be heard on several
frequencies. This website, kdxradio.com, serves as the hub for these
various broadcast activities and usually closes during overnight hours
unless local temperatures drop below 39-degrees Farenheit, in which
case we keep the server equipment running to heat the room. The Blare
Blog opens Weekends and Designated Holidays and closes during
ordinary weekdays.
The Blare Blog centers on low power radio technology and programming,
as well as philosophy and mathematics, with anti-religious bias and
political mockery. If I'm leaving something out I'll call you back and
tell you what it is.
