Saturday November 30,
2019 10:42 AM CST -- For Example
To
illustrate the fact that FCC Part 15 Regulations do not cover all
legalities regarding low power radio operation one must consider
traffic law: it is illegal to locate a radio station in the center lane
of an interstate highway despite the fact that Part 15 says nothing
about it.
Saturday November 30,
2019 10:37 AM CST -- Beauty Across the Media
Cold stormy weather does not stop beautiful sound from coming through
the air.
Wise Word: YouTube may
desecrate this sacred music with blaring commercials. Give them the
finger.
Saturday November 30,
2019 8:48 PM CST -- I'm Not An Attorney But
How
often do we hear or say it? It gets said all over the place and
recently one of our esteemed colleagues on another social website made
the claim that because FCC Rules Part 15 don't expressly forbid using
the IBOC MA1/MA3 Digital format for AM radio it is therefore allowable
to do so for low power stations. The fellow seemed not aware that other
areas of law apply also and that Part 15 is not a comprehensive and
exclusive set of laws governing such stations. Therefore taking legal
advice from the "not an attorney but" kind of people is not advisable,
or, in any case, a second opinion is best sought from an actual
attorney. Only in this way can one discover that not all attorneys know
the law either, but.
Saturday November 30,
2019 9:07 AM CST -- Rumors In the News
Not all rumors are true.
Everything is a rumor.
- Carl Blare, 2-minutes ago
Saturday November 30,
2019 8:41 AM CST -- Second Life
Sure,
I was late for work this morning, signing the radio station on a
half-hour later than scheduled, but it's in my contract: I am allowed
to oversleep or skip work altogether, and it's important that I do it
occasionally so as to evoke that part of the deal. So we arrived, got
everything started, and then began hearing large objects falling from
space which turned out to be a flash electrical storm putting us in a
scurry to shut it all down for safety, and by the time we did the
banging stopped and total silence enveloped the morning. Leaving a
margin for safety we gave it 15-minutes then brought it all back to
life returning to both internet and dial to present our award
seeking programs. What's for breakfast?
Friday November 29, 2019
7:36 PM CST -- Atlas
Shrugged
All evil needs for it to
win
Is the consent of good people.
- John Galt
Friday November 29, 2019
7:20 AM CST -- Friday Services
Based
on a mention from Artisan Radio we took our KDX name badge to a worship
service by Reverend Billy C. Wirtz and became instant converts!
Friday November 29, 2019
6:45 AM CST -- The Billys
Thank you for introducing
me to Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping. At
first, I thought he might have been another Reverend Billy that I've
played on my station - the Reverend Billy C. Wirtz - but soon realized
that he wasn't nearly as whimsical (your Reverend Billy actually has a
message).
Wirtz created, as described
in Wikipedia, a church "known
as The First House Of Polyester Worship and Horizontal Throbbing
Teenage Desire, and Our Lady Of The White Go-Go Boot, Lord Of The
40-Watt Undulating Bubbling Lava
Lamp Apocalyptic,
No Pizza Take-Out After Twelve, Shrine Of The Rick
Flair ‘WOOOO’,
Rasslin' Jeezus."
His first album was titled
Salvation Through Polyester, and he released a number of subsequent
albums and singles. I highly recommend him.
Thank you for introducing me to Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop
Shopping. At first, I thought he might have been another
Reverend Billy that I've played on my station - the Reverend Billy C.
Wirtz - but soon realized that he wasn't nearly as whimsical (your
Reverend Billy actually has a message).
Wirtz created, as described
in Wikipedia, a church "known
as The First House Of Polyester Worship and Horizontal Throbbing
Teenage Desire, and Our Lady Of The White Go-Go Boot, Lord Of The
40-Watt Undulating Bubbling Lava
Lamp Apocalyptic,
No Pizza Take-Out After Twelve, Shrine Of The Rick
Flair ‘WOOOO’,
Rasslin' Jeezus."
His first album was titled
Salvation Through Polyester, and he released a number of subsequent
albums and singles. I highly recommend him. -- Artisan Radio
Aprreciate
the introduction to Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, Artisan! Our part-time
search for eternal salvation certainly impels us to check him out.
Thursday November 28,
2019 3:28 PM CST -- Groping Hands in Prayer
The Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
Thursday November 28,
2019 1:24 PM CST -- Kingdoms of Belief
The
large so-called "organized" religions also benefit along with secular
corporations from the gross misjudgement of the high court
bestowing "personhood" on corporations and yes, religious institutions
are incorporated. Posing as "persons" these mammoth "belief" mills
enjoy First Amendment rights while enjoying tax-free status
per courtesy granted them by the state. Built upon donations
from
guilt-driven church membership these Theocratic entities are
accumulating radio stations in collusion with "conservative" secular
enterprises as part of a spreading conspiracy to dumb-down the populace
and lure them away from Democracy as overseen by Secretary of Education
Betsy DeVout. The evil plot is secretely named "Operation Goliath" and
the only "David", living on the fringes and subject to involuntary
frisk, are the low power radio stations which in most part squander
their holy calling by programming Hit Music from the High School Years.
One lone exception struggling to warn humanity of impending oblivian is
The Blare Blog and KDX Worldround Radio, ignored more than ever on this
Eve of Black Friday when the deals on Amazon take front and center
ahead of survival under coming Climate Collapse. That's all I can say
for now because some delicious snacks are being served in the Upper
Management Lounge.
Thursday November 28,
2019 12:21 NOON CST -- Thinking in Depth
If I knew more about what I am doing I would be smarter.
Thursday November 28,
2019 9:57 AM CST -- Carl's Annual No Thank You Memory
People
in the other 399 countries of the world hear "Americans" (people in the
U.S.) talk about "Thanksgiving", and wonder what we're going on about.
Allow me to speak on the subject. Along with other U.S. holidays,
Thanksgiving isn't true. It is said to be about a celebratory dinner
held early in this country's history between Early American Colonial
Settlers and the evicted Indians to enjoy the bounty of shared
cranberry recipes and mixed marriages with beautiful Indian maidens. In
reality the pale-faced white men held a barbecue to gloat on their
efficient massacre of the indigenous people and declare the territory
"red man free". The Federal Government declared Thanksgiving as a
"secular" holiday, making it religion-neutral, but this obscured the
question of whom was being thanked, since thanking God would have no
place in a secular holiday. In fact it is a day to thank the government
and get ready to pay property tax under the threat of being raided by
the Treasury Militia. The turkey was chosen as the center-piece of the
Thanksgiving table because it is the fattest fowl and best symbolizes
gluttony, the Christian sin of overeating. Our most memorable
Thanksgiving at KDX was the year we had no food left over and
discovered too late that all the stores were closed but had an unopened
jar of mayonnaise which we ate with our best spoon. Every year when
we're asked, "Are you ready for Thanksgiving?," we reply, "We're not
thankful."
Wednesday November 27,
2019 2:42 PM CSR -- When and Why BMI Added a Part 15 License
BMI and Part 15
This information taken from
a posting by Richard Powers at part15.org
Wednesday November 27,
2019 12:22 NOON CST -- Lists of U.S. Radio Stations
Wednesday November 27,
2019 10:54 AM CST -- Blowing Wind
The
KDX Blog, Website & Radio Servers spent the night and most of
the
morning offline because of a windstorm, our share of turbulent weather
sweeping much of the U.S.
Blustery winds are forecast until 3 PM
CST but a decision was made to sign on to bring the Thom Hartmann Show
Live. Following a walk of our campus here at the internet Building in
the Center of North America we noted that no tree branches had been
blow down and the worst we saw was paper and plastic bags
breezing
around. In the surrounding metropolitan area about 20,000 customers are
without power.
Sunday November 24, 2019
10:51 AM CST -- The Artisan Report
Good on you for calling
out the Moderators with fascist tendencies. One
doesn't want anyone
(but himself) to pee over the Forum. The other
deems anything that he
isn't personally interested in to be off topic.
I also read about your
potential foray into the world of Linux. I don't
know what's prompted
that, but recently I've seen posters on various
radio Forums gushing on
the advantages of Linux over Windows. To put it
bluntly, they really
don't know what they're talking about.
Here's the real scoop
from someone who's been involved professionally
(as opposed to being a
user, power or otherwise) in the computer world,
and more specifically,
in software development, project management and
consulting for over 40
years.
Linux is based on
Unix. Unix has been around for a long time, and it's
always had security
issues. I suspect that the reason you don't hear
about these potential
security issues (as all operating systems have) is
its small presence in
the market (tending to be hobbyists).
There is no one Linux,
as is popularized - there are dozens of variants,
each with its own sets
of shortcomings and issues. It's also open
source, which is a
double edge sword - do you really want every tom,
dick and bob to be
playing around with the foundation software of your
computer? Do
you trust these unnamed individuals? And what about
support? By
that, I don't mean the developers, but general support and
guidance from the
Internet community. With any sort of problem I hit
with Windows (or even
Mac OS), I can be absolutely guaranteed to find
someone else who has
had the same problem and potential fix, since there
are so many
users. With Linux, you need not only to hopefully find a
Linux user with the
same problem on the same variant and the same release.
For any particular
application class that you may wish to consider,
there are probably
hundreds of apps for Windows (and even tens of apps
for Mac OS) as opposed
to on Linux. So you're really limited there.
Any Linux variant
absolutely doesn't have the hardware support that
Windows has (since Mac
OS and the Apple hardware it runs on is a closed
system, this is a non
issue). Mainstream boards, sure. Others, not so
much.
The one place that a
Linux system may have an advantage is the
potentially lightweight
(and even that is not guaranteed, based on the
variant) footprint, and
the ability to run on outdated (read slow) hardware.
To me, it's not worth
the effort, other than playing (during which you
learn, which is never
wasted). But to count on something like it. Never.
Again, I don't know the
reasons you're considering moving away from
Windows, but I'd look
at Mac OS first, way before looking at Linux. I
was able to put
together a reasonable radio system with an old Power PC
Mac and an old version
of OSX (Lion) just a little while ago. The
disadvantage there is
that a lot of Mac software is payware.
Keep up the great work
on the blog. -- Artisan Radio
So
much for Linux, Artisan, and The Blog appreciates your guidance.
My reaction against Microsoft Windows was instigated by Steve
Gibson, computer security expert, by his expressed
disgruntlement on "Security Now" from TWiT.tv as heard on KDX.
During the coming week I'll isolate those words and post a link
somewhere, probably here. Well, definitely here because I'm not welcome
anywhere else.
Sunday November 24, 2019
10:43 AM CST -- Them Down Low Bow Wow Blues
And other songs by the Randy Schwartz Project
Saturday November 23,
2019 5:53 PM CST -- Radio Stories: Fictional Radio Stations
Radio stations that only exist in fiction.
Saturday November 23,
2019 1:05 PM CST -- Boomer Makes the News (again)
Saturday November 23,
2019 10:32 AM CST -- Randy Rainbow's Impeachment Hearing
Dear
Readers of The Blare Blog - It is with deep honor, towering excitement
and tremendous delight that we introduce Randy Rainbow!
Friday November 22, 2019
7:58 AM CST -- Collusion of Moderators
The
potentially most sophisticated adult hobby in the world has been
systematically stifled by antagonists working the fringes. That hobby,
low power radio broadcasting, benefits from healthy publicity through
member forums but what few forums remain are bled by "moderation" that
works to close discussion when it starts to rise above the level of a
school child. Consequently many attempts at participation by the
thinking community are rebuffed early-on resulting in short-lived
relationships. Case in point the recent threads re: digital
radio
which opened on two forums at the same time becoming a popular topic
attracting many contributors until being brusquely cut short
when
the moderators locked the threads, preventing further
input, offering no explanation of what violations may have
brought
censure. It's no coincidence that two forums took the same action at
the same time. Their moderators are interlocked and of like mind
continuing a long siege of censorship without reason.
Friday November 22, 2019 7:07 AM CST -- Radio Stories: Stories About
Radio
Today the story of KGRE in Greeley, Coloradio.
Friday November 22, 2019
6:37 AM CST -- Final Decision on Digital Radio
Digital
dirt has been stirred since "TheLeg" published his claim that
IBOC
(MA1/MA3) the proprietary digital radio system foisted in the U.S. is
actually a rip-off of AAC, a different proprietary format in popular
use for internet streaming, and is therefore up for grabs. But no one
has been able to verify TheLeg's claim which of course would
be
wide-spread media news if true. But even if IBOC is a conterfeit of AAC
it wouldn't default to the public domain because a patent license is
required for all manufacturers or developers of AAC codecs. For this
reason,
free and open source
software
implementations such as FFmpeg and FAAC may be distributed in source
form only, in order to avoid patent infringement. The AAC patent
holders include Bell Labs, Dolby, Fraunhofer, LG Electronics, NEC, NTT
Docomo, Panasonic,
Sony
Corporation,
ETRI,
JVC Kenwood,
Philips, Microsoft, and NTT.
It
is important to specify that our discussion here and now regarding
digital radio does not have anything to do with wideband FM where MA1
has also been established, which is to say that our only focus today
concerns the medium wave AM band where shortcomings (i.e., static,
limited audio response) might be salved through digital modulation.
Enter the open source digital format DRM -
Digital
Radio Mondiale
- already in use by international shortwave stations and according to
some a preferred method for American AM because it would do away with
the royalty payments due for using IBOC. When KDX dabbles with digital
it will certainly be DRM.
Thursday November 21,
2019 5:06 PM CST -- A
Decision Has Been Handed Down A Decision Has Been
Handed Up A Decision Has Been Handed from the Left Hand to
the Right
The
Windows OS (Operating System) will be escorted out of the building and
KDX will switch to Linux, but this will be delayed because we don't
know what we are doing. The plan is to obtain a non-Windows computer,
install free Linux, and try to build a replicate of our broadcasting
system until we know if it's going to succeed. It would be reckless to
close the functional Windows installation before knowing whether Linux
will cut the mustard because that might put us out of business for
seven years while we struggle to recover.
Comments are
welcome
.
The
point here is that Microsoft's monopolistic Windows has been given
ample time to earn a place as a serious operating system for interface
with the web but the company's bungling tactics have by now become old
and their OS just gets in the way.
Thursday November 21, 2019 4:44 PM CST -- One Person's Mistaken Beliefs
Pollute Everybody's Knowledge Pool
When there's no evidence be skeptical.
Thursday November 21,
2019 1:40 PM CST -- Boomer Inputs On Digital AM
Hi Head Figure,
I saw the article on
MA3 mode HD digital radio. (is MA just standing for AM in reverse?)
I don't think it would
be as much of a problem for the home user to implement, since it seems
that most of the issues getting it going on a commercial station
environment are due to the antenna tuning and retrofitting old
transmitters to take the digital signal and not distort it.
Something similar
happened when AM stereo started in the early, mid-1980s, and it was the
same thing, stations having to re-tune antennas for flat SWR, and
transmitters had to deal with the changes when adding stereo to
circuits with tubes and audio transformers of the day.
With AM stereo, it's
pretty easy to do on the hobbyist's desktop, no retrofits and the
circuit can be built as a system for stereo.
I suspect it's the same
with HD, that you have a transmitter with interface built for it and
software on a PC, or firmware on a chipset to start broadcasting
digital. It won't be too hard to do, because the techniques of I/Q
modulation and ODFM are known throughout the whole wi-fi, cell phone
and wireless world we have today.
It's all the same,
there's nothing really special at the heart of it, which is why I feel
that TheLeg wasn't being too over the top with his hacking HD
speculations to the Part-15 groups that some were afraid of.
In my opinion, Motorola
did the same thing with C-QUAM, obscuring circuit details and trying to
make it seem proprietary, when really it's just a variation of
Armstrong's phase modulator - from the 1930s.
Boomer
Editor's
Note: Boomer's reference to "TheLeg" points to a a forum member at
part15.orgy who expects to obtain software for IBOC MA1/MA3
Digital for use on his own radio station in Deltaville.
Thursday November 21,
2019 11:02 AM CST -- Saving the World with a Plastic Plan
Hearing
about the islands and heaps of waste plastic smothering the planet it
has been my notion to use compression technology to convert discarded
plastic into construction materials which might still be possible, but
while I'm day dreaming someone else has put a similar idea to work!
Thursday November 21,
2019 10:23 AM CST -- It's All About Me, You, and Us
I
take World Philosophy Day (11/21) extra seriously because of my
position as Resident Philosopher for KDX Worldround Radio. To define
"philosophy" we look back to a prominent philosophy professor of our
acquaintance once asked, "What is philosophy?" His reply - "I don't
know." So, looking elsewhere, some other person defined it as "love of
knowledge." Ya. What I'd say on the subject is that philosophy is a
field which strives to explain existence in more realistic terms than
religionists who make ludicrous claims scarcely fit for second-rate
comic books. And certainly The Blare Blog goes a long way in its
explanation of existence together with colleagues Arthur Schopenhauer,
Frederick Nietzsche, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Eric Hoffer, R.
Buckminster Fuller, Richard Dawkins, Bruce, Boomer, Tha Dood and
Marianne Williamson. In short it all amounts to this: existence is an
illusion, albeit a persistent one (attributed to Albert Einstein), the
universe is gaudy and over-stated (self
attribution), nothingness
occupies the bulk of experience (loosely attributed to J.P. Sartre),
life is absurd but so is death (A. Camus), pain and failure are what's
normal in life with pleasure and success being rare and brief
(Schopenhauer), telling lies is noble when it's for the greater good
(Plato). It's a big enough question to keep philosophers in work.
Thursday November 21,
2019 7:49 AM CST -- MA3 the All Digital AM Scheme
Because
of declining interest in AM radio there have been efforts afoot to
"revitalize" the legacy band to bring back the audience, who've become
scattered by the superiority of wideband FM, satellite and streaming
radio services. The kludgey attempt at hybrid digital AM,
also
known as MA1, has been a costly failure for participating stations with
many others avoiding the expense. Now we are hearing about an
all-digital approach called MA3 and a voluntary closing of analog
transmissions. All these things have been going on in the larger arena
of full powered licensed AM, while the unlicensed low power campers
have not ventured beyond classic analog. Lately some small-time
discussions have opened about the notion of using software to put MA3
all-digital into our toy-sized low power transmitters. Is that all
there is to it? Try reading this and be glad for analog.
Wednesday November 20,
2019 5:52 PM CST -- Transgender Day of Rememberance
There's
a pitiful tendency for those not directly touched by senseless violence
to be indifferent about it but if you want to continue as a radio
station owner-operator it's important to develop sensitivity to
society and the people in it. We learn that in 2019 over 22 transgender
people in the U.S. have been murdered simply for their legal and
harmless preference. It would be like killing radiots (people who love
radio). There's no justification for it. I am against the death
penalty, but in the case of these murderers it would be nice if they
disappeared and we could be indifferent about what happened to them.
Wednesday November 20,
2019 3:16 PM CST -- Health and Homelessness
Being
homeless might be somewhat manageable for the healthy, but it doesn't
work that way in real life. A very significant number of America's
homeless lost their living accomodations precisely because of
career-ending health problems that drained their finances. A surprising
number of homeless thought they were in control while they were
employed, housed, and managing to pay huge premiums for medical
insurance that in the end didn't cover the larger share of medical
charges that came in a flood of unexpected bills accompanied by
aggressive collection agents.
After giving it a lot of thought
KDX may have the solution to this crisis. Yes, it is our recommendation
that every family attend medical school so they can operate medical
clinics as a home hobby therefore no longer depending on insurance
racketeers or land-pirate hospitals.
Wednesday November 20,
2019 8:26 AM CST -- Boomer Honored in New Yorker Cartoon
You've done good, Boomer!
Wednesday November 20,
2019 5:40 AM CST -- Railroad Days
Dates for Hinton WV Railroad Days vary each year, but KDX will manage
to Celebrate with Open House at The Blare Blog.
Tuesday November 19, 2019
11:19 AM CST -- MARIANNE
Marianne
Tuesday November 19, 2019 7:06 AM CST -- November 19th is World Toilet
Day
The United Nations has declared.
Monday November 18, 2019 3:56 PM CST -- Radio Portal at Wikipedia
Monday November 18, 2019 1:51 PM CDT -- New Categories &
Holidays
Starting this week the Blog Cover Contents page will bring
two new Offshoot Categories: Micro Grids and Radio Resources.
Also, Nathan B.
Stubblefield Day has been added for November 22
and
George Washington Carver Day will soon be added, pending determination
of an appropriate date. It seems that Carter's birthday is
unknown.
February
7th is Peanut Butter Day for its inventor Mercellus Gilmore Edson a
Canadian chemist.
Over
the years I'd always heard that G. W. Carver invented peanut butter but
our research led to what we present here.
July 10th is
Nikola Tesla
Day.
We also want to add a day to commemorate Edwin H. Armstrong's invention
of Wideband FM.
Sunday November 17, 2019 11:44 AM CST -- Unseen Worlds
The
Blare Blog falls into the category of unseen words except for our
readership of under ten of the the smartest people in the seen world.
Unseen worlds are another thing altogether with so many otherwise fine
individuals coming to the wrong interpretation of what they experience,
read, are told and believe. Only this morning on the Stuph File with
Peter Anthony Holder his guest erroneously claimed there's a spiritual
world apart from religion whereas we know with absolute certainty that
spirits and spirituality are the very definition of religion, a realm
existing only as an imaginary projection of persons badly misinformed
and a by product of anti-intellectual stubborn ignorance.
Given
the foregoing it would be perfectly reasonable to recognize that there
are many unseen things in the world which do not rank as worlds
themselves, such as air, and who could be more qualified to speak on
the subject of air than a broadcaster who transmits on the air. We
know full well that air has never been seen and yet it encompasses us
entirely and makes a massive exploding sound when crashing back
together whenever parted by a lightning bolt, topples trees and
buildings when stirred to violence in a wind storm, and supports life
when drawn into lungs. With all its features air might be viewed as
more of a "god" then more common myths about a fatherly
creator in
absencia.
Sunday November 17, 2019 9:32 AM CST -- Some Reactions to the
Conservative Republican Rightwing Hate Crowd
Because
a 50 kW station in our town has changed hands and is going through
conversion from decades of Jesus to being another rightwing hate
station we have been tuning in to follow their progress and have a few
take-aways about the adolescent style of this pock on radio history.
Since
the incessant trashing of everything on the left-progressive leaves
nothing untrampled, coupled with the do-no-wrong defensive apologetic
for their right sided position, they scream open and obvious admission
as propagandists by trodding on any granular gradation in their strict
one-sidedness.
With that their naked nationalism and the
whiteness for which it stands is a form of flat-earthing because if you
take away everything beyond the borders the earth ceases to be round.
Their
only achievement by conservative talkers deserving of
recognition makes note of the uphill
and energy depleting task of talking so much with so few talking
points, sort of what is also done in 24/7 sports radio. Credit must
also be given for accomplishing their idiotic task while not detectably
drunk.
Saturday November 16, 2019 3:04 PM CST -- Unwitnessable Modulation
Levels
We've
previously talked about the Wi-Fi audio transmitter/receivers installed
to shuttle our radio programs around the campus to our various AM FM
transmitters (TP WIRELESS TP-WT02), and they have been excellent in
their performance. There's only one issue that we have been analyzing
and that is the a lack of a modulation indicator resulting in not
knowing if
we are under or over-modulating the microwave transmitter. The system
utilizes GFSK modulation, for what it's worth to know. Setting the
input level (0-30) all the way up to "30" the audio sounds possibly
distorted, but that's only a subjective observation judged by human
ears. Our RF Explorer Spectrum Analyzer shows the frequency rising out
of the Wi-Fi activity in the 2.4 GHz band but reveals nothing about the
modulation. So here's what we did: we backed its input level
(arbitrarily) to "21" and the audio no longer seems distorted.
Of
course we went around re-setting the modulation levels of the AM FM
transmitters at the receiving end, and this is how we're handling the
situation.
Friday November 15, 2019 6:11 PM CST -- Genres, Categories, Formats and
the Like
We
have spoken frequently regarding the Genre Generator sent out by
sub-carrier along with the KDX-OGG online digital radio stream,
ours describing KDX as "Talk, News". We have today imagined a
possibly more
accurate description of what KDX is about and that is:
World Affairs. Watch
for it.
Friday November 15, 2019 12:55 NOON CST -- Impoochment Proceedings
Karl DX,
Thanks for access to
the Executive Hallway and lounge, I had still been looking at a past
page. There are about a dozen things I'd want to comment on from that,
but I don't think I'll make it unless I do Twitter size responses.
I've been working on my
C-QUAM AM stereo solution for my carrier current station, getting
excited that there's a new Lady And The Tramp live action movie out,
which put a spring in my step and propelled me toward the finish line
on the stereo exciter. I love that movie, the original has been in my
personal top-10 movies for years.
I took time with stereo
and it works well, and it seems like a hate crime that the stereo
format for AM was not used more, lots of bad decisions along the years,
and unnecessary delays led to stereo not being established on AM. It
works well to get the sound quality of the AM system increased. I think
AM stereo should have been developed when FM stereo was.
As it is for me,
C-QUAM, as a hi-fi enthusiast, is a fun hobby and technical test bed
for learning mostly,
The same could be said
of digital AM and FM, that if this is what stations and listeners want,
it should have been been started earlier. I saw the writings of TheLeg
on the Part-15 groups, and I'm not surprised that people are hacking HD
Radio, the tools and knowledge are out there, and the techniques they
use are common in every wireless industry that uses digital.
I see TheLeg got his
thread closed, good job, an achievement, putting forth something so
advanced that people can't stand it. It would be nice, though, if the
man with the gavel could be proactive and cause the posting of more
articles, not one that stays awake for two weeks and remains in focus
at the top of the charts.
Funny joke that it's
not bestiality if one is married to one's animal. I wonder what
Christian churches would say to that one? Likely, 'Well, you got half
of it right.' Maybe you'd score only a third right if the animal
partner was the same sex as the human one.
Great stuff on your
success with SDRs, I've been thinking about a KiwiSDR myself, though
right now it wouldn't be so much fun to install antennas with the hard
freeze.
How have things been
doing with your SSTRAN transmitter, any ideas what the problem could
be? You might have to do some troubleshooting, checking voltages, audio
tracing. Maybe you had a lightning strike nearby?
I almost ordered an
SSTRAN a few years back, but kit builders on line were saying there was
a delay in getting theirs and they had to pressure the company to get
it sent, so I decided to wait but he closed right after that.
Maybe the I-AM radio
would be good for you, it claims to be better, and you do voice, so
perfect flat audio bandwidth might not be needed.
There are also a couple
of kits for small AM transmitters currently available on Ebay, when you
look up "AM Transmitter" and there's the Spitfire 100 mw, which might
still be available, and it's fully built, not a kit. -
Boomer
Hello
Boomer! we were just talking about animals. The past Blogs you'd like
to respond to can be done any month even though they may date from
previous months... just refer to the date and/or title of them and
carry on. No need to be Twitter brief.
Your fondness for AM C-QUAM stereo is well understood and I con
cur that it
should have become standard.
The
back-and-forths about the hacking of digital radio on the two smallish
forums had my attention and were very interesting, but it worried me
that the patent & copyright holders take their proprietary
status
very seriously and might be prone to file a claim against the jolly
pirates and treat them to a prison cell. We notice how slow the
moderator was to catch on.
Your fractions are about right as to
the effectiveness of varying combinations of bestiality, and as far as
the Christians are concerned they certainly look the other way when it
comes to God and the girl.
Based on YouTube videos we've seen
the KiwiSDR is an excellent choice and you should start with an indoor
antenna until the weather bureau gets its act together.
If only
you'd managed to acquire an SSTran transmitter, they are so excellent,
which reminds me of an important message I need to post... wait right
here and let me get this out of the way:
IMPORTANT MESSAGE !!
THE SSTRAN TRANSMITTER
KITS WERE DISCONTINUED WITHOUT A STATED REASON AND KDX SEEKS TO KNOW
WHAT HAPPENED!
THE INVENTOR OF THE
AMT3000 & AMT5000 POSTED FREQUENTLY AS PhilB AT PART15.ORGY AND
ALSO VANISHED FROM CONTACT.
THERE
WERE SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS CONDUCTING A SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST KITS IN
GENERAL AND SSTRAN IN PARTICULAR ALONG WITH PERSONAL ATTACKS AGAINST
PhilB AND WE WONDER HOW CULPABLE THEY ARE IN CAUSING THE CLOSURE.
IF YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED
PLEASE CONTACT FIGUREHEAD@CHARTER.NET WITH THE STORY.
The
SSTran AMT5000 is working well after jiggling the input level control.
We suspect that strong RF was feeding back into it from the nearby
Wintenna.
The iAM Transmitter has received positive comments
from several of our trusted radiots and is being strongly considered.
The smaller transmitters seen on eBay have not gained our confidence.
Friday November 15, 2019 12:05 NOON CST -- Winter Fat
Animals
in the wild realize that putting extra weight around themselves will
help preserve body heat when the worst cold arrives, and at KDX we
promote excess eating with frequent cheese & snack breaks as
well
as double triple main meals throughout the day. Thinking back, I recall
that women of appetite made the most pleasing dinner partners because
they'd be warm to be around during the holidays. Stick figure women,
near starvation, seem to believe that they'll be somehow more
attractive in their skeletal appearance and my only response is that
supposedly attractive women should be easily available to those they
attract otherwise what's the point? Brushing aside my fair criticism
the stick-figure girls pose a challenge getting them to clean their
plates and discover the joy of feeling toasty and blizzard-proof.
Chattering teeth and shiver-shaking wrecks the spell.
Friday November 15, 2019 11:53 AM CST -- In Memory of a Newscaster in
Exile
During
his last days Travus T. Hipp, a fixture in the development and growth
of free-form non-commercial radio, produced newscasts from his
cottage in the High Desert of Nevada, heard locally on KPIG, Freedom,
California, and internationally by way of the Internet Archive. KDX was
part of his network and looked forward every weekday to his commentary
on world events, then he died. Only weeks prior to that I recall
telling Mr. Hipp that his voice would be a prime choice for readings of
Mark Twain for librivox.org and he expressed his flattery at the
thought. This afternoon our weekly Blare OnAir will present "A Travus
Farewell" marking his passing back in May 2012
, scheduled at 2 PM
CST on KDX-OGG.
Friday November 15, 2019 9:01 AM CST -- Veterans' Week
The recent week began with Veterans Day and our respect
for military veterans is well reflected in this link:
Friday November 15, 2019 7:29 PM CST -- A Complete Guide to Impeachment
Podcasts
We
realize most low power radio stations only bring hit music as if the
world was young and had a future, but in an alternate universe a
mythical radio station might want to bring the listeners an actual
glimpse of the adult world.
Made the
national network news.
Wednesday November 13, 2019 4:15 PM CST -- The Contradiction in the Room
According
to authoritative sources the "forums" that once served specialized
interests have become passe but not all forums realize how arcane they
are, including the 4-member part15.orgy forum where a gentleman
nicknamed "TheLeg" reports that the Ibiquity (IBOC) Digital Radio
format is a complete failure. Because of it he intends to acquire the
code so he can transmit in low power IBOC. We believe it is
noble
to align with failure.
Wednesday November 13, 2019 4:02 PM CST -- Comfort Station Out
of Service
The
Blare Blog closes for days at a time but we wonder if possibly we
should keep the light on during Climate Emergencies such as the Arctic
freeze presently gripping much of North America. The Blog might be a
warm place to spend sheltered hours while waiting for normal days to
return. While it would be better to spend cloistered time reading
books, nobodys going to do that. Perhaps The Blog is as close as most
browsers will ever come to reading a book, and we do share little
tiddy-bits from our book collection. Think your opinion over to us via
the telepathic corridors and we'll be perceptual through
remote
viewing.
Wednesday November 13, 2019 11:03 AM CST -- Required Behavior
People should be peaceful.
If people are not peaceful they should be beaten, humiliated, and shot.
- C. Blare
Wednesday November 13, 2019 10:57 AM CST -- All Indications Point to a
Brief Power Outage
Following
a marvelous night aboard dream pillow we arrived at the KDX work
station to find a blank screen. "Well, that's odd," we said, thinking
back to last midnight when the computers were left running for the 1
o
of heat they contribute and their continuous streaming of KDX-OGG for
overnight visitors. Puzzled, we explored further and realized both
machines were completely turned off indicating only one thing: there
must have been a power outage during the night.
Tuesday November 12, 2019 4:10 PM CST -- Call It Luck
Knowing
that the forecast called for abrupt temperature drop and possible snow
by 5 PM I arranged for an 11 AM errand tour to stock up on supplies.
But the Arctic front arrived early and I faced snow-rain so intense
that car windows were covered within seconds of being cleared and once
backing out of 1 Wireless Way we noted a severe lack of visibility with
windows steaming up both inside and out, so we moved cautiously. Once
on the road we took maximum care to observe the road ahead and behind
and by sheer chance encountered virtually no other traffic. It was
noted that the few moving cars we passed hadn't the sense to light
their lights and became nearly invisible in the gray. The 1-mile trip
was accomplished and we dilly dallied in the food market as though on a
cruise ship miles from dock. The return trip was different in that it
was clearer but colder and the ground was still sloshy but in
20-minutes would turn to ice. That all happened yesterday, by the way,
and today the frozen world is almost at the bottom of the thermometer.
In reading about yesterday's other traffic, there were hundreds of
sliding accidents and normally short trips lengthened to more than two
hours. It's good to be the lucky one.
Tuesday November 12, 2019 2:45 PM CST -- Monument to Beautiful
Grotesquery
At
an early age a particular piano concerto captured my fascination and I
adopted it as an all-time favorite, the Piano Concerto # 2 by Sergei
Prokofiev. It is sarcastic, unruly, disfigured, misshapen, crotchety
and malcontent. Like a clear mirror of the human soul. It is performed
on this week's SymphonyCast, available free to noncommercial stations.
Tuesday November 12, 2019 8:31 AM CST -- Self Imposed Competition
It's
always a matter of time before I once again bring Arthur Schopenhauer
into it, but his precept on the world as will and idea is often proven
in ordinary daily experience. Take coffee for example. And addiction,
which is certainly a contest of will in which the individual
simultaneously wants to do and not to do; the idea being to have that
cup and decline it. Who cares? Oh, that depends on social intersections
in process at the time, such as, uh, ok, an important meeting on
essential business. Perhaps at the morning table with the wife in
discussion over holiday shopping plans. Understand me, I don't have a
table or a wife for that matter, so, ok, let's make it the boss at work
over the question of a pay raise. Well again, I don't have a boss or a
job, but maybe you get the drift. In the middle of something important
you abruptly walk off leaving the conversation unsettled and when you
return it's only a few minutes before you're up again and gone
for
another 5-minutes. Your will is being overtaken by the will to pee,
brought on by the coffee, a known diuretic, which you decided to drink
because of giving in to your will for a slug of java. A better idea
would have been to abstain, but how many abstinences should one person
endure? There's the matter of the secretary sitting out there where she
could be invited to lunch when both of you know it's not about lunch at
all.
Tuesday November 12, 2019 8:10 AM CST -- The Process of Younging
Fellow
humans have always sought a way of becoming younger and going back in
time. While those are really two different things they are intertwined
as observed in the newly discovered technique of time/age regression by
turning counter-clockwise while standing in place. However, so far the
law of diminishing returns has kept this method of reverse aging from
achieving useful results. For example if one were to spin herself
counter-clockwise continuously for, let's say, a week, she would become
2-seconds younger, except that regular time would continue advancing
around her and the 2-seconds would become spread over the total number
of days spent spinning which would give a net age reduction of the
smallest fraction of a second and be scarcely noticeable in terms of
facial wrinkles or other age indicators, not to mention the setbacks
brought about by skipping school or work for time spent spinning at
home.
There
is more to be said about all this, but it's difficult
writing while engaged in the act of turning.
Tuesday November 12, 2019 6:34 AM CST -- The Wrong Room
"The
Wrong Room" is a new feature of The Blare Blog describing ink space
where we rant about things that are wrong with the world, the radio
industry, and individuals we run across and observe. In practice "The
Wrong Room" is no different than The Blog was already, it's just that I
like the sound of saying "The Wrong Room".
Monday November 11, 2019 4:52 PM CST -- The Difference Between Studios
and Pods
For
the first 100 years radio programs were produced in studios, which
consist of acoustically treated rooms with microphones, tables, chairs,
and plate glass walls for visual contact with the control room. Radio
programs were not called "studio-casts", they were "programs" and made
up the contents for ongoing "broadcasts", referring to a continuous
string of programs sent over the air. The internet age has brought some
changes as the production of programs has done away with old school
lingo and settled on the compact term "podcast" to describe in one
simple word where the program is produced, the fact that it is a
program, and the intention of "casting" that program by whichever
medium, be it online or over the air. So, what is a pod? The word
originates in regard to the containers for legumes such as peas and
beans but has taken on a number of other meanings such as: 1.) A small
section of a larger office, compartmentalized for a specific purpose;
2.) A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates. It is
that second definition that best applies to podcasts produced in the
Police State of America
where
podcasts are surveilled to weed out all anti-Trumpers.
At
KDX we produce no podcasts and what few radio programs we have are
completely ignored by the authorities and by the general listening
public.
Monday November 11, 2019 12:40 NOON CST - Wait 'Til You Hear the One
About the Unfortunate Truth
There
is some benefit when the truth is funny, but certain truths are also
god awful. This example of both sides of certain truths is submitted by
radiot Artisan Radio.
Sunday November 10, 2019 7:43 PM CST --
During
times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --
George Orwell
Sunday November 10, 2019 4:37 PM CST -- Look See the KDX SDRuno Screen
What
we are seeing is the spectrum view of KDX AM 1680 in our SDR Play RSP1A
Software Defined Receiver. You agree that it's very beautiful, right?
SDRuno in Action
Saturday November 9, 2019 8:42 PM CST -- A Radio Movie
We
ran across a 1956 film about the radio business starring some of the
best voices in movies. It's a strong story and happens in the offices
and studios of a radio network with local affiliates and all the
interchange among management and air talent.
Saturday November 9, 2019 6:45 PM CST -- I'm Not Superstitious But
Strange
things sometimes happen with no obvious explanation. Take what just
happened with the Zara Automation System on KDX. A program called
"Mystery Science Theater" produced by Frederick Moe was in its last
5-minutes when the next items in sequence began playing at the same
time causing two different audio streams to go out over the air and
what's
more we could not find a way to stop Moe's program. We deleted it from
the playlist but it kept playing anyway. We hit the STOP button which
shut-down the second programs that were running but Moe's program
wouldn't stop. No such error has happened before in our many years of
using Zara and we cannot imagine a way in which to replicate the event.
But of course there is a rational and scientific answer to the
situation but we are so shook up that we suspect helicopters in the sky
sending disruptive commands into our electric wires
or possibly the
witch woman we met a few months ago who mixes potions and delivers them
at holiday time.
Saturday November 9, 2019 12:29 NOON CST -- SDR Play Is Back On the Air
Here
inside the Internet Building KDX AM 1680 is being received on a
software defined radio SDR Play RSP1A and streamed on KDX2-OGG.
Saturday November 9, 2019 11:02 AM CST - Marriage License
Bestiality is legal if you're married to the beast.
Saturday November 9, 2019 10:52 AM CST -- Ferrite Rod Loopstick Antenna
Notes
We may have gone over this ground before.
Friday November 8, 2019 10:06 AM CST -- An SDR Phase II Plan is Forming
In
a burst of inspiration we know where to go from here regarding the SDR
Play RSP1A Software-Defined-Radio recently placed in suspension here at
KDX due to indecision about what to do about it. Here are facts that
play into what we will do next - this particular SDR has one antenna
input which can only be changed manually given the reality that no
single antenna covers the full spectrum from 500 kHz to 2 GHz. That
being true, we will employ several different antennas and periodically
change the configuration featuring different portions of the spectrum
at any one time. The main emphasis of the SDR will be streaming of
signals received from our low power radio transmitters, eventually
adding the means for visitors to tune around and hear other stations
local to this area. Distinct bands will include long wave, medium wave,
shortwave, FM band, and the 1 GHz region. For the two lower bands we'll
install loopstick antennas outdoors with ability to physically re-aim
them to favor any direction. Further, we'll want a loop good from 1.7
to 30 MHz for shortwave, and higher-band antennas yet to be determined.
All this will be done under the guidance of Bruce's Radio Monitoring
Station in Hartford, Connecticut, consultant.
As always input
from our radiots will be welcome.
Friday November 8, 2019 9:52 AM CST -- Be Ahead of Your Backups
I
have long advocated for backups to all broadcast systems, from the
transmitter to the computer. The purpose of backups is rapid recovery
from breakdowns. A friend of mine also in the media business said that
he purchased two of everything so he'd always have a spare to keep his
business open in the event of equipment failure. I quickly adopted this
policy and purchased a second car, second building, and started living
in two states. That was before I became broke and homeless which has no
backup
plan. There may be some hyperbole in what I blog but finding ourselves
in the year 2019 the wisdom of backing up still holds true yet we were
caught again when our AM radio transmitter failed and nothing was ready
to take its place. That's why today or soon, whichever comes second, we
might order an iAM FCC certified transmitter. I'm going to sit here
until I decide.
On
second thought I'll sleep on it. On third thought I'll table it except
that all the tables are in use.
Friday November 8, 2019 8:05 AM CST -- Something Else Happened
KDX
has been churning along for weeks, no, more than four weeks, spewing
the finest website, blog and radio, until moments ago when our server
abruptly stopped serving. Everything stopped all at once including the
website, the radio stream, and the local network connection to our
controlling computer where I was busy doing stuff. What did we do in
response to the crash? Well, we did what would be expected if this were
the real world; we began to make observations to assess the situation.
Now it's all back up, if not backed-up as we say, but there's a lesson
to be learned. And that is, no matter what we do, something else
happens.
Friday November 8, 2019 4:40 AM CST -- A Message to Fellow Radiots
The
main reason for this message is to tell our fellow radio enthusiasts
that you are radiots. If you like radio you are a radiot. If you
broadcast with low power you are a radiot. If you worship towers and
mess with loops; radiot. It's one of those words that came into mind
quite early in the A.M. and F.M. with outdoor temperature 24
o.
If I hadn't written it down right away it would have been forgotten. So
this message is the Official Birth Notice of the new term: Radiot.
Any
other use of the the word without express permission of KDX Worldround
Radio requires attribution to its coiner, Mister Carl Blare of 1
Wireless Way, Average Terrain Park, Missouri, U.S.A., a location so
hidden not even the postman knows where it is.
Thursday November 7, 2019 CST -- Thrown Bone
Word from Boomer:
I had to check in when I saw on
the blog front cover that there's a 'Human Girlfriend Day.' That's
funny, when people think I am close to Dogs so much, sending pictures
of me interacting with different pooches and I've been told I should
get married to one, or why not get a human girlfriend? It's mostly fun
needling between friends.
I've thought, as far
back as maybe junior high that it might be a good idea to allow
marriage between humans and other animals. As I think about it now, it
might be seen to dirty both marriage and Dogdom. Still, there are
marriage ceremonies between people and their pets, something that makes
the newspapers from time to time.
So much to comment
about the Blare Blog from 1910.html. I have to get to radio, I'm so
close to getting AM stereo back on my station. How have you been doing
at getting your station up at 1510?
Boomer
Carl Replies:
Hello
Boomer, I've been reading your well reasoned contributions to one of
the smaller radio forums. And of course yes, a large portion of the
human public would line up for inter-species marriage licenses and KDX
is in favor of it. In my experience several observations come to
mind... a freelance artist I commissioned confided to me her intimate
dogplay involving peanut butter, a widow said to me, "I don't know what
I'd do without Minkee", her small dog, and for the flash of a moment
her
face registered a nearly guilty look, and finally there are Missouri
politicians whose faces reveal a distinct crossbred
resemblance
to farm livestock.
If it's a role model you want then take
Almighty God. He, a one-gendered specie of One, ventured with an
underage, unmarried, engaged human girl and produced a hybrid son who,
like a mule, would never progenitize but became the special friend of
twelve swell guys.
As to 1510, while we do have an LPB carrier
current transmitter outfitted for 1510 kHz, and a regional station on
that frequency has gone silent, that station being perhaps 40-miles
outside of town, the fact is we have a local station on 1490 kHz which
is closer on the dial than would be preferred. What would you do?
Tuesday November 5, 2019 6 PM CST -- Tongues Talking and Otherwise Sticking Out
A
white nationalist said "dem furners comin' crossa barder
oughter
spik Marekin" (translation: foreigners coming across the (southern)
border should be capable of speaking the English language, sometimes
erroneously referred to as the "American" language).
As a cosmopolitan I believe that white nationalists should be able to
speak a language.