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May 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022 7:08 PM CDT -- Driving a Trash Train --
We
all have trash trucks coming to the front curb, and as the waste gets
distributed to distant points it may do so by barge or train. In this
train simulation Colonel Failure has taken control of a trash train
without much idea what the job actually entails.
Tuesday May 31, 2022 2:25 PM CDT -- What Happened Before Yesterday --
With
temperatures today moving to around 90 I was poking around YouTube
without a plan until I came upon a recently presented 'History of Radio
in a Town Where I Once Worked At a Radio Station'. The master of
ceremonies was a long time local celebrity and one time boss who'd
taken me onboard at several DJ gigs, all FM as I recall. His stories
involved personalities, call letters, music formats and studio
locations. These histories tend to fade away because the stations were
bogged down always struggling to earn dollars through advertising
to pay the power bill and salaries, no resources left over to open a
nice little history office. Also, of practical necessity, historic
re-accountments need be sculpted to fit the time available, before the
audience starts turning to lunch plans. There are always elements
passed-over, such as the towers. For many years I could recite a
year-by-year history of which station built a tower, which succeeding
stations took it over, and in a few instances towers were dismantled
and moved to other locations. Sad to say this topic accomplished very
little on dates which played the central part of my social life for a
long time. Despite extensive dating experience I can give no
recommendations for best topics on a date. Being a trained psychologist
might put things under control, but my psychology is very untrained.
We're way off topic now and I don't know how to get back.
Tuesday May 31, 2022 10:56 AM CDT -- The Fuse is Re-Lit --
I've
gone back to coffee after doing without for a month or two. Like other
coffee lovers I enjoy that sensation of boost that makes you feel like
you can actually get things done. Also, I'm fascinated by a difference
in quality of sleep between being caffinated versus abstinence. Because
of the diuretic affect of coffee one tends to awaken frequently during
the night whereas sleep periods last longer minus the bean. What I've
noticed is a stark difference with regard to dreaming. With no coffee
in the system sleep periods last longer, dreams get deeper, and when
awakening there is no memory of dreams whatsoever, except the sense
that there were dreams. With coffee the sleep cycle never gets fully
entrenched and waking up is accompanied by a vivd grasp of what was
just being dreamed, and in hindsight I find this to be a bit of free
entertainment. At the end of the night either form of sleep adds up to
restful satisfaction. Any readers interested in the scientific aspects
should know that we are talking about instant coffee, and the brands do
vary. The store brand from one of my grocers is somewhat tasteless,
while Aldis instant has a meaty coffee aroma. To be safe try these
experiments on some other family member while you stand by keeping
notes.
Monday May 30, 2022 6:25 AN CDT -- Morning Memo --
We awoke this
morning with the thought of closing up shop. But upon further thought
it would not amount to a total shutdown. KDX Radio, the centerpiece of
this media array, is very much serving a vital purpose by providing
programming otherwise unavailable on the AM or FM dials in the local
area. What we may not need is a website or a streaming station. These
are both expendable as I'd like to reallocate the time they consume.
Nothing is final at this juncture.
Sunday May 29, 2022 11:50 AM CDT -- KDX Schedule Reduction --
KDX
will sign on at 7 AM CDT Monday through Saturday, previously 6 AM; 8 AM on Sunday, unchanged.
Weekday afternoons on KDX will be shortened by carrying only the first
hour of the three hour Thom Hartmann Program, except when exceptional
circumstances merit longer attention. The time gained by this change will be spent on railroad simulation games.
Sunday May 29, 2022 7:24 AM CDT -- In Competition with Ourselves --
A
great video series is soon to be linked on the KDX-TV page featuring
Colonel Failure and his test runs of rail simulations to the extreme.
In one program the Colonel takes a Swiss commuter train up the
Alps during an ice storm and lets it come down the mountain with
gravity alone and no brakes. What can possibly go wrong.
Sunday May 29, 2022 7:11 AM CDT -- Back At It --
This
morning KDX Worldround Radio returned to operation after Chief Engineer
Pierre Linear fixed whatever it was that came apart. To hear for
yourself how good it sounds there's the player app just above. Since
today is Sunday the programming only runs until 1 PM CDT because Sunday
is maintenance day every week.
Saturday May 28, 2022 1:30 PM CDT -- Later That Same Day --
As
it turned out I stayed tune to Artisan Radio for three entire hours.
Many mysteries were solved and old-time musicians filled in following
each drama. Excellent way to spend a pleasant day.
Saturday May 28, 2022 10:33 AM CDT -- The Silence Got to Me So I Filled It Up --
Since
4 AM early early I've been watching RAILROADS Online Multi-Player Videos
on YouTube and listening to the participants chat about their elaborate
railroad maps. When 7 AM rolled around KDX did not sign on at the
scheduled time and it won't be coming on for awhile while I sulk about
the world and dwell in my escapism. Finally I decided to figure out
where to obtain RAILROADS Online, since none of the hours of videos
I've watched have thought to tell where the program may be had. A
number of vendors showed up through a Duck Duck Go search, but their
pricing scheme confused me until I found a site that offered the
program *FREE*, which I lunged into, right away to have the screen
occupied by layers of warnings and a voice telling me "DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER! YOUR COMPUTER HAS BEEN LOCKED FOR YOUR
SAFETY! CALL THE PHONE NUMBER AND MICROSOFT WILL GET OUT OF BED AND
SPEAK TO YOU PERSONALLY!" I turned the computer off and rebooted.
Things seemed quiet so I listened to Rag FM for a couple of tunes, then
Artisan Radio where Humphry Bogart was starring along with Lauren
Bacall in a 'Bold Venture' episode. I updated the Demand Radio page so
listeners can enjoy the new OPUS stream from Artisan. The day has
warmed sufficiently for me to step out on campus and trim things.
There'll be birds but no radio.
Friday May 27, 2022 12:09 NOON CDT -- My Radio Station Annoyed Me So I Shut It Off --
I
wasn't really listening to it anyway. Partly because of the continuing
rut the news has gotten into with Putin's ugly war, the nuclear threat,
the hideous rash of school shootings, the moronic Christian-Republican
attack on women's health autonomy, violent weather, inflation, wildlife
extinctions, bad radio programming on the licensed stations, etc. The
whole reason my station exists is so that I have something better to
listen to, but what's better these days is escapism to train videos on
YouTube and free streaming movies, so I've let KDX run on automatic
pilot except it's gotten cranky and has been demanding attention. The
2.4 GHz studio-to-transmitter-link died for no reason. I fixed it, but
then the audio sounded over-modulated, so I closed the stream and
closed the local AM FM broadcasts. KDX isn't a job, it's only a hobby,
yet here we are arguing with each other. It's silly of me but I run KDX
as if it had an audience, but the blunt fact is that I'm its intended
audience and if I'm not listening there's no point to it. Of course one
thing leads to another and we end up asking why a silent radio station
would have a website and a blog? It's just too much to deal with all at
once and there are train videos to see, so we can't be bothered with
decisions as we head into a three day holiday weekend. The Depp-Heard
Trial is in final arguments and that might be influencing the general
emotional temperament, so feel free to visit The Blog and I'll stop by
at intervals to touch base.
Friday May 27, 2022 5:19 AM CDT -- Somebody Took the Bag with the Script On It --
I
guess I'll be able to keep my job at the tv station because I solved
the problem I was having by waking up. Turns out it was a dream, but
things got pretty tense for awhile. I was live on the air reading the
news from the back of a paper back that was propped up in front of me.
The studio was abuzz with people all over the place coming and going,
and all of a sudden my bag was gone and my mic came on but I had no
news to read and I didn't happen to know any news, so I said, "The news
will continue following this break." We started a search for the news
bag but only found blank bags, so I left all those people and the
tv station by waking up. But come to think of it the news we get here
in the waking world is going through a similar problem with Twitter,
YouTube and all the oither media outlets banning paper bags if they
have news printed on them.
Thursday May 26, 2022 7:55 PM CDT -- Laying Track --
YouTube
Thursday May 26, 2022 12:23 NOON CDT -- No Gun Zone --
Too
late. They've been invented. Now we're stuck with them. We can talk
about 'gun control', but we should also look at how the image of almost
every movie is movie actors pointing guns; guns are an extension of the
hand; guns are a fashion accessory. Along with cigarettes, alcoholic
drinks and speedy cars. After talking about that we might survey how
many war simulation games are popular online, where the objective is to
murder avatars as quickly as they pop up. Patriotism is all about
killing 'enemies', which in military parlance means 'total strangers
they send you to assassinate'. As a master sargent told us during
basic training, "Humans are the ultimate quarry". He liked hunting them
and bagging them. I wasn't bad at hitting the flat metal human bust on
the training field and earned a Marksman's Medal, which I threw in the
waste basket. I always thought guns were too loud. They don't seem to
have a productive use in the workshop.
Thursday May 26, 2022 12:02 NOON CDT -- A Second Hobby --
One
word. Railroad Simulation. Well, two words, but one very absorbing
pursuit. In this radio program we learned of a new simulation program
called 'Railroads Online', only two months old but already with many
YouTubers posting very entertaining gameplay episodes.
Thursday May 26, 2022 7:52 AM CDT -- From One Blog to Another --
Artisan Radio Interblog Message:
Just thought I'd let you know that I'm putting my blog on hold for a
little while.
In the meantime, I'll gladly contribute to your site, and I'll post
occasionally over at Part15.org.
I've updated my website so that the links work, and I've also published
my broadcast schedule.
- Artisan Radio
A daily visit to the Artisan Radio Website is part of our schedule!
Thursday May 26, 2022 6:25 AM CDT -- We Thought It Would But It Didn't --
We
worked out all the kinks involved with adding a second computer so that
the first one could become a dedicated server, moving all management
and entertainment functions over to the second. Along the way we
checked with radio-locator.com to find that KINK-FM is licensed to
Portland Oregon, operating at 101.9 MHz with 99 kiloWatts. The lamp and
video monitor at computer 1 is turned off and the office chair rolled
elsewhere, as Tight VNC allows controlling both computers from number
2. We thought that moving control activity away from the server
computer would eliminate the little audio interruptions occasionally
caused by CPU traffic pileups, but the small glitches continue to
happen because that's the way the world works.
Thursday May 26, 2022 6:24 AM CDT --
We undertake what we do
Until the undertaker takes over
- Carl
Tuesday May 24, 2022 8:56 AM CDT --
You can believe anything you want,
but reality won't budge.
- Carl
Tuesday May 24, 2022 8:32 AM CDT -- Hybrid Radio --
Driving
along in your car listening to a radio station. You begin to get
outside the range of the station, but it continues playing on your
dashboard without sounding weaker. How can this be done? A seamless
switch to the station's online stream takes place by means of
Hybrid Radio. Bravo! NOW we're talking about ingenius integration of
over-the-air and cyber-space!
INSIDERADIO
If we can make this work with a part 15 station no one will notice how small the range is.
Monday May 23, 2022 10:43 AM CDT -- Something for Nothing --
In
an earlier post I referred to the Latin expression "quid pro quo" which
essentially means "a favor for a favor" which is what Elon Musk was
alledgedly negotiating to arrange up in the private plane, at least as the story
was told to me. His half of the offer was to be a horse, contingent
upon the female flight attendant's delivery of what we'll compare to "you scratch my back and
I'll scratch yours". What happens in the air should stay in the air if
we're talking about air planes, but closer to the ground plane we want
our radio waves to stay in the air only until they reach nearby radios
where we offer "quid pro nulla", which is to say "something for
nothing". We "give it away", as it were, in operating these part 15 low
power radio stations.
This Just In: (Tue. May 24) Elon Musk has let it be known that he doesn't use flight attendants on his planes. Take it from there.
NY POST
Monday May 23, 2022 9:24 AM CDT -- Prices of Phones & Internet --
Mark remarks in our ongoing discussion of phones and such:
The
provider I have is Worldline. They provide their service through the
existing lines so you have to be wired for a landline to get their
service.
The
price has increased since I signed on and that was a few years ago now
but as long as I remain a customer I pay the same forever. The only
other charge is 10 a month for the box and if it malfunctions they just
give me another one. I had the option to buy it at the start but
thought if I move and the place is not wired for bell and a landline
the box would be useless. The only cell phone I have is one that stays
in the car never on. Just for emergencies. I don't pay the bill my
brother does! They have their place. If you are stuck with your car
broken down in a blizzard in the winter you don't have to walk 3 miles
to find a house in 20 below zero to have someone let you use the phone
to call CAA, (or AAA in the USA). By the way Carl, if the power goes
out for a bit can't you live without internet or a phone for a few
hours here and there? God forbid you don't have youtube for half
a day once in a while. My station goes without a glitch on power back
up. power went out this morning for an hour and I was rockin' as if
nothing happened.
- Mark
Indeed,
Mark, I think about that too. Although virtually addicted to internet
and radio related electronics, I have had times when everything was out
and I had to live the old way by entertaining myself without buttons
and keyboards. In those situations I have a giant book library but when
I try to read I find out that my attentioon span is all shattered and
my mind keeps drifting to something else. That's also a good time to do
household cleaning and repair.
Monday May 23, 2022 9:14 AM CDT --
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world
doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow, broadcast journalist
RADIOWORLD SmartBrief
Monday May 23, 2022 7:54 AM CDT -- There's Nothing to See Here --
After
ignoring the latest rumor against Elon Musk it finally reached me this
morning from the 'No Agenda' program as heard on KDX. John C. Dvorak
and Adam Curry disassembled the sex misconduct allegation and showed
that a misandrist flight attendant violated professional
confidentiality and spread a defaming story about what was, at the
most, a botched quid-pro-quo business proposition made behind closed
doors high in the sky beyond any statuatory jurisdiction. She was never
threatened nor in any way harmed and at most may have had grounds for
requesting a discreet transfer to another plane. Her name and picture
should be widely posted as "Untrustworthy". But the other matter of
signing up with Republicans as a way of criticizing Democrats
seems bizarre, but held in abience until we learn more about Mr. Musk's
strategy.
Monday May 23, 2022 7:27 AM CDT -- Bots and Bods --
A
visit to Icecast Streaming Server's 'Access Log' shows a recent history
of connection activity of which only a few are actual bods looking for
a good listen. Most of them are bots sniffing and surveilling for
whatever purpose. We've got a persistent attempter from Los Angeles
trying to 'GET kdx.ogg' which has been out of service for several
months. There's another one hoping to latch khz.mp3, the Time Station
we ran briefly several weeks ago. It is rude to slump and rummage
inside privately owned websites leaving a slime trail, but that's about
all you can say about it. There is no available way of aiming toward
them with a paint gun.
Monday May 23, 2022 7:10 AM CDT -- Writing By the Drink --
Boing Boing
Monday May 23, 2022 6:58 PM CDT -- Humans Have the Biggest Butts in the Animal Kingdom --
Boing Boing
Saturday May 21, 2022 4:33 PM CDT -- From Gutenberg Until Now --
The
invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg opened the way
for mass media and today we are afloat in a sea of media by which we
are forever impressed. In a blog post titled 'Project Gutenberg'
(today's date) Artisan Radio expands on his recent radio programming
exploits into the trove of public domain audio books. It wasn't long
ago that KDX, our own station, had overnight programming called 'Radio
Books' featuring great readings on works by Robert Ingersol, Arthur
Schopenhauer, Frederick Nietzsche and other top flight authors from the
'Age of Enlightenment'. By chance we're tooling up for another round of
'Radio Books', as I'm curious about Emmanuel Kant, a well respected
philosopher that I've not studied, and the classic "Paradise Lost'
by John Milton which is regarded as an all time masterpiece. I'd rather
be fussing with classic literature than messing with phone questions,
but with the world on the brink of extinction we must try to do it all
in the time remaining.
Saturday May 21, 2022 3:37 PM CDT -- Gone and Back --
A
second storm placed us in shut-down mode from which we're just now
emerging. Also, there's more about fones as my education ramps up. I
spoke to my one living relative and she surprised me with her knowledge
of flip fones. She sported a 'Trac Phone' for awhile and actually used
it for road emergencies. She briefed me on pre-paid cards purchasable
everywhere to have phone-time only when you need it and no longer need
to scramble for quarters at a public phone booth.
Saturday May 21, 2022 11:37 AM CDT -- Flipping Burners --
I've
found a batch of YouTube videos about Flip Phones which will be good
viewing over Memorial Day Weekend (U.S.) and saw another term we have
yet to explore...
Saturday May 21, 2022 10:55 AM CDT -- The Ons and the Offs --
There's
a lot of oning and offing going on lately. We're just now coming back
from a storm offage. Just after writing our treatise on the phone
situation the day turned black like a near total solar eclipse followed
soon after by bursts of electricity banging and rattling the walls, so
we went to the safety of a parking page with the one-word message
"STORM" for one hour
until it seemed quiet enough to re-appear,
although the storm may not be over. There's still an unsettled tension
out on our campus and we are on alert. Thus far in recent storms we
have not lost power here at the Internet Building, however thousands in
the vicinity are without power and some have experienced tornado
touchdowns and flash flooding earlier in the week. A man on the radio
said the more severe storms are coming this afternoon, so be ready to find us closed again.
Saturday May 21, 2022 8:55 AM CDT -- Phones --
Mark submits more on the topic of the day and Artisan Radio blogs about phones:
I think that $350 a month was
someone who had a smart phone, you know what you see everyone
holding in their hand all their life like it is a part of your
body, on it 24/7 and if on the internet or texting non stop using
data, and also having apps like spotify which have monthly
fees.
I'm like you Carl, I have never
or will ever have a smartphone or live my life having to have this
with me.
There's people that can't walk 20 ft without this thing in their
hand or they will have withdrawal symptoms. The addiction overrides
the harm of the microwaves and the warnings even from the companies
about not having this on and on your person for extended times. And
as for microwaves it's worse when you have these bluetooth white
things in your ears all the time so you can be
wireless......Phones...phones....phones....it's insane!
I have a land line. The phone is at home like it has been all
my life. I don't get it with Bell I get it from a third party
provider for $39.95 a month with internet and that's unlimited
internet and no long distance charges. It's called DSL service and
you get a box that gives you the phone and internet and you can
turn off the wi fi and use an ethernet cable to your
computer.
If I move somewhere that is not
wired for a land line I would have to get a cell phone but a flip
phone which is just a phone nothing else, not a smartphone, and
never use it except for an emergency. It would be off most of the
time and if people want to get in touch with me they can email or I
can email them. A phone is not needed.
I hope they intend to replace the cable in your place.
Mark
About $40 a month for all that is a really good price,
Mark! My internet only account is double that amount! But yes, a very
excellent tech arrived for the second appointment and spent 90-minutes
re-installing the wire to the house which is 100-feet from the pole.
The first moment it was tested inside the house I exclaimed, "There's
YouTube!" By the way, I do have a very inexpensive VOIP telephone
subscription and a cordless phone, but it only works if the internet is
up.
And I see that yesterday Artisan Radio made two detailed posts on the subject of phone plans
and with all the information coming into this Blog we have something
like a school on phone thinking. The consensus agrees that flip-phones
are the most affordable devices, and another dimension comes into the
discussion__ the "provider". There needs to be a wireless service for
the flip-phone to connect with and the pricing of a provider that will
be used very little is the next thing to explore. So here we go...
we'll be learning about all the flip-phones in search of the best one,
and service providers that tolerate very minimal customers.
As
a result of all this I soon will write a brief history of the place
telephones have held over the years as a tool for social contact and
way of doing business. This internet age is a whole other life from our
point of view and it's like we're starting all over again.
Friday May 20, 2022 3:59 PM CDT -- Cell Phones --
Mark from Part15.org writes to ask...
$350 a month for a cell
phone!!!
Just for a flip phone or something to use as a home phone not
to use like a smartphone but just for necessity?
- Mark
I
need to go to school because I know zero about the state of the art of
telephone services available to the ordinary consumer. I used the
number "$350.00" because I overheard somebody say that their telephone
bill has gone up to $350.0, but I do not know what they get for that
amount. Let me tell you what I do know. Land lines were the basis of
the phone system and are still very smart and reliable but the industry
wants to phase them out and concentrate on more lucrative microwave
schemes such as 5G. I had a copper landline but became frustrated when
the Bell Company ignored my begging to be given a twisted pair
from the pole to the house because the old old straight wire pair
that I had from decades ago was picking up Lutheran Radio from a nearby
5,000 Watt radio station. So I got cable telephone, which of course
requires having cable internet and is useless when the cable goes out.
The mysterious realm of cellular phones is something I've avoided
because I don't want a phone with me at all hours of the day and no
matter where I go, the microwaves are a health hazard (my opinion) and
I've heard they are costly. You can say "Smart Phone", "Tablet", "Flip
Phone", or "Cuff-Link Phone" but I have only a vague idea what it all
is. Now it comes to light that I have not been taking seriously the
idea of an emergency, which happens when all avenues of communication
are cut off. I've given passing thought to possible scenarios, such as
having the car stall on a mountain road over a holiday weekend. Even if
I had a pocket phone, how would I know what number to call? Before you
can reach the desired party you need a data-base to find out the right
place to call. I have one living relative but she never answers her
phone because she's eccentric, unlike me of course, and I couldn't go
to her door because she's informed me that her dogs are as paranoid as
she is and try to kill strangers. In my fear of dog attacks I have
never met the dogs and so am a stranger to them. This is
getting too personal, so let's post this one query: what might be a
'smart' way to have backup communication without hurting the budget and
what kind of plan needs to be in place to know how to reach the vital
numbers on those infrequent occasions when all else fails.
Friday May 20, 2022 8:22 AM CDT -- Electronically Homeless --
On
Monday afternoon this KDX Website went offline for 'Routine
Maintenance' and didn't return until late Thursday afternoon. During
that time we were plunged into a world of disconnection and discovered
how dependent we've become on our electronic life supports. It all
began when we contacted the internet provider to request repair of the
cable which was dragging on the ground and needed reattachment to the
building. A technician arrived, removed the cable entirely, and drove
away without making contact with us. We had no communications and found
ourselves unable to speak to the world without taking a car ride
somewhere.
I asked the service person at the supermarket if
there was a public phone and was told I could use her phone if the call
was short, but that was unlikely since just getting through the ISP's
automated menu could drag on for 20-minutes so I headed off and came
next to the auto service place that keeps our car healthy and was able
to use their phone amidst much noise and racket, eventually reaching a
service lady at the cable company. For some reason she was unable to
conceive of our internet being out because her database showed that
work at our location was "complete", but an appointment was arranged
for two days hence.
A noon storm threatened the likelihood of
things happening on time, but the sky cleared and a man with test
equipment appeared at the entrance ready to come inside to determine
why our "complete" system was broken. I pointed out to him the complete
absence of a physical cable and that got things moving in the right
direction. 90-minutes later we were seeing YouTube. We were again
linked to digital society after four days in an alien analog world.
What
became apparent during the ordeal is that calling for help is no longer
aided by common availability of public telephones. Efficiency of scale
has worked in reverse and calls now for owning a cell phone at $350 a
month.
Saturday May 14, 2022 9:14 AM CDT -- That Can't Be Happening --
Being
involved with computers has given humans an expanded sense of logic
since every function of computer performance can be traced to very
specific software instructions. If the rules are not exactly logical
things fail. But human beings have another sense that superscedes the
clean specificity of computers. We are prone toward superstition. There
are unexplained bugs in the woodwork that make the laws of physics
flicker and strange messages appear in paradolia. When logic falters
the hint of strangeness can be very subtle. Take this morning's double
playing of the Al Franken Program as an example of a mystery without
explanation. Earlier, while setting up the Zara Playlist of Radio
Programs for the day on KDX, I entered one instance of Al Franken to
start at 8 AM, which happened per schedule. But at 9 AM I became aware
that the same words were being spoken again and Franken was continuing
for another hour. I looked at the actual time of the show. It was a
1-hour show. It was playing twice. I looked at the 'loop' button which,
if depressed, would cause a repeat. But it was unchecked and was not
invoking a repeat. Perhaps the program had been double-entered in the
playlist. But no, only one Franken program was entered. Our best
analysis has determined that no way exists for what's happening. But
why would hidden forces cause such mundane mishaps to blemish
existence?
Thursday May 12, 2022 8:37 AM CDT -- Under the Brooklyn Train Tracks --
RADIOWORLD
Editor's
Adjustment: Upon reading the YouTube reviews attached to this
story we have come to realize that the RV under the train tracks is a
webcaster and has no over-the-air presence. Then we looked more closely
and saw that in posting this link RADIOWORLD
placed quote-marks around the word "pirate", so we added quote marks to
the word in the title of our link. Of course we know that quote marks
used in this way disclose the writer's awareness that this is not truly
a pirate station, but perhaps the fact that I was fooled for part of
the morning goes to Mark's point that legal broadcasting can easily be
confused with illegal kinds.
Thursday May 12, 2022 6:51 AM CDT -- Blighting of the Radio Waves --
Low
power radio operators regulated by FCC Part 15 in the U.S. and
equivalent Canadian rules maintain a keen readiness to benefit from the
creeping blight of the medium wave band as more licensed stations cease
operation. Already true in the Netherlands the vacated dial space opens
the way for increased hobby and experimental operation. It must also be
kept in mind that the vast territory of shortwave broadcast has been
undergoing its own closures as legendary stations have been junking
their radio facilities in favor of internet distribution. While it
doesn't appear that the FCC is considering rule changes to enable
creative new applications between 1800 kiloHertz and 30-megaHertz it
would certainly be appropriate for them to take up the matter. This
linked article gives a realistic picture of the state of shortwave:
RADIOWORLD
Tuesday May 10, 2022 3:45 PM CDT -- Property Owners Are Law Enforcers without Knowing What the Law Is --
Comment from Mark, moderator for part15.org
Regarding FCC Letters to Property Owners about "Piracy":
That really bothers me as owners
will not know the difference between legal and illegal.
You want to have your Procaster for example and they will say ...no
....not allowed here.
"but it's legal"....not allowed!
That's wrong. Property owners
will just say no radio broadcasting of any kind and you can't
convince them it's legal and they won't care. How many people even
know about part 15 and the Canadian equivalent?
This is WRONG! The property
owners should educate themselves about part 15. Property
owners are law enforcers, when they don't even know what the law
is.
- Mark
Tuesday May 10, 2022 3:38 PM CDT --
The way time is
it's over almost before it starts.
- Carl Blare from his popular Need I Say More?
Tuesday May 10, 2022 3:23 PM CDT -- Ceiling Array Microphone --
NEXT|TV SmartBrief
We realize you've been our mic boom operator
over the past 75-years, but now we have the
Ceiling Array and no longer need your services.
Tuesday May 10, 2022 9:47 AM CDT --
The power of radio is not that it speaks to millions,
but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.
- Hallie Flanagan, American theatrical director, playwright
RADIOWORLD SmartBrief
Tuesday May 10, 2022 7:23 AM CDT -- FCC Notifies Property Owners of Pirate Radio Activity --
RADIOWORLD SmartBrief
Monday May 9, 2022 2:36 PM CDT -- About Artisan Radio's 'Cancel Culture' Question --
Earlier today Artisan Radio blogged
about the matter of streaming Russian music from the early 20th
century, notably by Sergei Rachmaninoff. I'd like to add further
familiarity with the question of composers and politics. It happens
that Rachmaninoff and Sergei Prokofiev moved to the United States to
escape previous totalitarian regimes such as those of Lenin and Stalin.
For Dimitri Shostakovitch things became terrible upon the premiere of
his 4th Symphony which Stalin banned calling it decadent. During one
period Shostakovitch was in such fear of being arrested by the secret
police that he slept in his apartment's hallway to hopefully prevent
his family from being disturbed if the Stazi came for him.
As
it happens I have a fondness for a contemporary Russian composer named
Rodion Schedrin, now in his eighties. By all indications Schedrin is
entirely a man of the international music community and tied in no way
to the political administration. It can also be mentioned that he was
born in Ukraine.
Sunday May 8, 2022 7:19 PM CDT -- Movie About Radio --
I was scrolling through available free movies and ran across this one.
Sunday May 8, 2022 1:04 PM CDT --
Every piece of paper thrown away
Is one less piece of paper.
- from Carl Blare's forthcoming 'Get My Drift'
Saturday May 7, 2022 1:11 PM CDT -- Dreamy Days and Other Daydreams --
Next
Sunday is already coming up tomorrow, only two more days of the New
Orleans Jazz Festival being heard on about ten radio stations as the
annual WWOZ simulcast has returned after a two year absence for the
pandemic. In the upriver location of KDX Worldround Radio the weather
has gone from cloudy, rainy, chilly, to comfortable and sunny as we
ponder the differences between our river towns. New Orleans has an
intact city personality and serves tourists as a whole destination with
much to offer. St. Louis, by contrast, is a fragmented city with
neighborhood sub-divisioning that makes most celebrations very local to
particular segments. Tourists return again to NOLA whereas I would
doubt that anyone pays a second visit to the Gateway Arch, which other
than standing there looking archy provides a cramped elevator ride to
630-feet up where one can squint through thick glass at a sprawl of
buildings probably giving little incentive to come again. The stainless
steel arch serves as a pronounced grave marker on the spot where river
boats once landed carrying jazz music up and down the Mississippi. By
bringing the Jazz Fest to St. Louis KDX serves as a voice from the past
putting ghostly spirits into the air.
Monday May 2, 2022 6:37 PM CDT -- Street Scene New Orleans
Sunday May 1, 2022 12:50 NOON CDT -- Here's What's Happening Now --
KDX Worldround Radio is part of a national
hookup of radio stations carrying the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage
Festival from WWOZ the non-commercial jazz station in NOLA. The
Festival continues until next Sunday.
For the first time this blog is being written from computer no. 2
located in the executive office and saved to the kdxradio.com web
server on computer no. 1 over Tight VNC, a networking app that allows
data exchange between the two computers. By staying away from the
keyboard of computer no. 1 the Icecast stream for KDX-OPUS performs
without any disturbance caused by potential interferences between
programs competing for CPU time.