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A hobby - but also disaster response It wasn't marked by parades, fireworks or an interview on 60 Minutes, but World Amateur Radio Day was April 18. For many, amateur, or "ham" radio, is viewed as a hobby from the past. But it's very much alive and more than a pastime, locally and internationally. The century-old International Amateur Radio Union estimates there are 3 million operators in 160 countries, including 700,000 in the U.S., 540 in the immediate area, 50 in Philipstown and 43 in Beacon. For many, interest in ham radio began early in life. As a 10-year-old, Joe Barbaro of Cold Spring loved listening to English-language, shortwave broadcasts from Germany, Russia and other faraway countries. "Radio Moscow was a favorite," he said. "Even at a young age I knew they were full of it, but it was fun to listen to." He graduated to ham radio at age 14. "England was about the best I could do" for conversations, he said. "I didn't have powerful enough equipment for beyond that," he said. "I was kind of a minor-leaguer." Another Cold Spring resident, Damian McDonald, got started at age 6. "My uncle was a Franciscan priest based in Bolivia, and the only way we communicated was ham radio," he said. "It was kind of magical, even with the static." It motivated him to build his own ham radio from a Heathkit; today he has a mobile ham station in his car. Before he retired from a career in cybersecurity, he enjoyed conversations with other operators during his daily commute to New Jersey. "I could hold a conversation with the same person all the way down," he recalled. McDonald noted that "emergency preparedness is still a core tenant of amateur radio," and Anesta Vannoy of Beacon would agree. She got into ham radio in 2018 as a disaster response chaplain. She wanted to assist at emergencies but, as a senior citizen, thought it could be difficult getting to the scenes of incidents. She belongs to four networks: Westchester Emergency Communications Association, Mount Beacon Amateur Radio Club, Orange County Amateur Radio Club and the Harlem Emergency Network. "I like that I'm preparing myself to help others," she said. She hones her skills at events such as the New York Airshow at Orange County Airport and the St. Patrick's Day parade in Wappingers Falls. She also attends trainings led by "elmers" from her networks - lingo for more experienced operators. Part of her weekly routine is checking her five radios to ensure each is charged and operational. Her son, Raheem, will soon take the entry-level test for licensing by the Federal Communications Commission. Operators must pass tests at progressive levels: Technician, General and Amateur Extra. Raheem is relearning Morse Code, a skill he acquired as a Boy Scout. Although Morse Code is no longer required, "it can still be useful in certain emergency situations," he said. First responders see ham radio as an asset. Ralph Falloon, a Philipstown resident who is deputy commissioner of the Putnam Bureau of Emergency Services, said operators are considered part of the county's emergency preparedness network and provide vital backup in situations such as interruptions to the power grid. "The Putnam Emergency and Amateur Repeater League, or PEARL, has an office in our building," in Carmel, he said. "They have radio equipment here and mobile towers they can set up for mini-networks." Robert Cuomo, Putnam's director of emergency medical services, offered an example: If the grid goes down and a hospital generator fails, ham operators could set up on site and communicate with ambulances. That's what happened in 2005 in New Orleans when the region's infrastructure was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. "In many cases, the only communication in and out was ham radio," he said. PEARL hosts field days for operators. It includes contests to see who can speak to the most people around the world[ but also covers disaster training, Cuomo said. "They can't use commercial power - just a battery or generator....

Episode 142 Chapter 04, Electronic Music Composition by Process. Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music  Welcome to the Archive of Electronic Music. This is Thom Holmes. This podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each of these episodes corresponds to a chapter in the text and an associated list of recommended works, also called Listen in the text. They provide listening examples of vintage electronic works featured in the text. The works themselves can be enjoyed without the book and I hope that they stand as a chronological survey of important works in the history of electronic music. Be sure to tune-in to other episodes of the podcast where we explore a wide range of electronic music in many styles and genres, all drawn from my archive of vintage recordings.   Playlist   Time Track Time* Start Introduction –Thom Holmes 01:31 00:00 Yves Klein, “Monotone-Silence Symphony” (1947). I could not find any recorded versions of this piece, so I produced this realization of my own to capture the feel and nature of this process work. Klein conceived this as performance art in which an orchestra would only play a single note, continuously, for 20 minutes followed by another 20 minutes of silence. I've examined the score and can see that Klein also intended that the same note could be played in different octaves. The playing would have been staged so that one group of musicians could overlap another, both for reasons of fatigue but also to allow smooth transitions for the wind instruments because players would need to take a breath. My version includes electronic instruments for multiple parts, each part playing the same note, often in different octaves. The introduction of instrumental groups was planned in stages, each overlapping the previous grouping, gradually shortening in duration as the piece goes on. 40:03 01:34 Steve Reich, “It's Gonna Rain” (1965). Process piece using tape loops and phasing. 08:03 41:38 La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, “31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM” (1969). Early work employing electronic drones. Eponymous untitled album popularly known as "The Black Record" or "The Black Album" Mine is an original copy. The cover is black gloss print on matt black and very hard to read. Numbered edition limited to 2800 copies of which numbers 1-98 are dated and signed by the artists. This work “was recorded at the date and time indicated in the title, at Galerie Heiner Friedrich, München. The work “31 VII 69 10:26-10:49 PM” is a section of the longer work: Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery. Play this side at 33 1/3 rpm only.” Early work employing electronic drones. By the mid-sixties, Young and his partner Marian Zazeela were creating music for electronic drones as an extension of their group, The Theatre of Eternal Music. Using a Heathkit sine wave oscillator and later Moog modules as sources, they created drone pieces that employed “extended duration time signatures” and “long sustained tones, intervals, triads and chords to create the musical texture.” A reissue has now occurred on the label Super Viaduct. 22:49 49:24 Terry Riley, “A Rainbow in Curved Air” (1969). Minimalist process work for electronic organ. 18:46 01:12:08 Steve Reich, “Four Organs” (1970). Process piece for four electronic organs. 24:11 01:31:04 Brian Eno, “Discreet Music” (1975). Process piece for synthesizers. 31:35 01:55:12 David Behrman, “Figure in a Clearing” (1977). Process piece using the KIM- 1 microcomputer 19:13 02:25:30 Laurie Spiegel, “A Harmonic Algorithm” (1980). Self-generating program running on an Apple II computer. 03:08 02:44:48 Alvin Lucier, “Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums” (1990). Process piece for amplified piano and snare drum. 09:20 02:47:48 Marina Rosenfeld, “Two (Joy of Fear)” (2005). Process piece for a timed improvisational live performance. 10:22 02:56:50   Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. My Books/eBooks: Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, Routledge 2020. Also, Sound Art: Concepts and Practices, first edition, Routledge 2022. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation. For a transcript, please see my blog, Noise and Notations. Original music by Thom Holmes can be found on iTunes and Bandcamp.  

Missing your rambling relatives this holiday season? You're in luck! Tune in to Jason and Skip as they ramble through weather reports, amp fixes, book recommendations, reflective impedance, reverb-driven line-out and more on our 141st episode! Want to be a part of our show? Just email us a question or voice memo to podcast@fretboardjournal.com. Some of the topics discussed this week:  :48 Weather report: Rain in the West, bomb cyclones in the PNW 4:32 A 1968 Heathkit catalog with DIY Harmony Guitar kits 6:35 Thanksgiving at the Simmons house 7:09 A noisy Alamo; Pathfinder, the band (link); bands named after amplifiers  8:49 Our sponsors: Grez Guitars; Emerald City Guitars and Amplified Parts (Jensen speakers are currently on sale!)  10:58 Deluxe Amplication's red can El Pato Practice amp! (link, I said green on the podcast...my bad) 11:50 Pre-order William J. Simmons' new book, 'Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art' (pre-order link)  12:51 Recommended reading: 'The Golden Ocean' by Patrick O'Brian 14:33 What's on Skip's bench? The secret solid state guru in Sacramento, not to be confused with the washing machine guru 18:54 The Truth About Vintage Amps Patreon page; guided tours of the Skip universe?  20:50 Jason interviews a yogi on the Fretboard Journal podcast (link)  22:35 Adding a half-power switch to a push-pull amp?, tortilla chips  29:48 Would a variac set to 110v help new amps?  31:49 Mullard 10M tubes; going back to school; Skip has all the NOS Amperex 12AX7s   37:58 A Denver TAVA meetup?; one filter cap or two in a Gibson GA-25? Replacing non-polarized electrolytic caps by twisting two regular negative caps together 41:03 More on Skip's new (old) Fender Duo Sonic 48:26 Using your Fender's reverb circuit to drive a speaker; Sherlock Holmes' lazy brother 52:36 Skip is going to make an outboard tremolo pedal 53:09 Why do some reverb tanks have bags? 52:22 A non-alcoholic cocktail featuring ginger ale and cranberry juice 56:02 "I smile at pretty solder joints;" Riddim Restoration of Bellingham, Washington (link)  1:00:45 An early 60's Geloso 215AN, a diode bridge and a choke to create negative voltage; and Denver chocolate pudding cake   1:07:14 Reusing old blown transformers 1:09:00 KVMR Community Radio (link) 1:10:05 A mid-‘50s theremin schematic; the Theremin documentary   Hosted by amp tech Skip Simmons and co-hosted/produced by Jason Verlinde of the Fretboard Journal.  Don't forget, we have a Patreon page. Join us to get show updates and get to the front of the question line. 

If you know, you know.First, I ain't young. I started in radio -- long before the Internet and 3 Chords & the Truth -- during the age of cartridge machines, big studio consoles with round knobs, turntables and reel-to-reel tape decks. Editing was done with a grease pencil and razor blade. The computer was the Heathkit they built in electronics class, which was where it stayed.And the thing about being Not Young is that I've seen some things. And I remember most of them.Second, I ain't never seen what I'm seeing now. Enter the 2024 presidential race -- 81-year-old Joe Biden, who's had a pretty damn good run as president vs. 78-year-old Donald Trump, an adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, federal defendant, Georgia defendant, word-salad aficionado and all-around reprobate.And the felonious reprobate, running on a flat-out authoritarian platform, is winning. I was born in the Deep South in 1961. What we'll get under a second Trump Administration, I've seen. It was called Jim Crow. It was horrific.No wonder that I felt the need to bang my head on this week's edition of the Big Show.I am old enough to have seen a lot of good music. This is it. Trust me.It's 3 Chords & the Truth, y'all. Be there. Aloha.

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Send us a Text Message.When a welfare check ends in a nightmarishly grisly crime scene, Joshua Karras finds himself caught in a web of horror and torment as he is pursued by an inhuman figure known only as The Venetian. With an old HEATHKIT radio and a disembodied voice of a Detective to guide him, Joshua must unlock these supernatural mysteries before he becomes one.•••••••••••••"RADIO NOWHERE" created by Star Chaser Productions, written by Matthew Ewald, based on a story by Jeff Johnson and Matthew Ewald, and Directed by Matthew Ewald.Introductions by the legendary and iconic Tony Todd and Tom Savini.Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo and Matthew Ewald. Sound Design and Editing by Matthew Ewald."Radio Nowhere" Theme Music by William Liebenrood.•••••••••••••Genre: Horror | Science Fiction | Drama | Mystery | Thriller 

Famicom rules Japan, Bushnell leaves Chuck E Cheese & Vectrex put to rest These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM! This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in February 1984.  As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Alex Smith of They Create Worlds is our cohost.  Check out his podcast here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/ and order his book here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/book Get us on your mobile device: Android:  https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS:      https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM Send comments on Mastodon @videogamenewsroomtimemachine@oldbytes.space Or twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com Links: If you don't see all the links, find them here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/100523595 7 Minutes in Heaven: Campaign '84 Video Version:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/7-minutes-in-84-102259801     https://www.mobygames.com/game/158302/campaign-84/ Corrections: January 1984 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/january-1984-100014130 Ethan's fine site The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/      1954-02     Anti Comic book bill proposed in New York     https://www.nytimes.com/1954/02/17/archives/bills-would-curb-immoral-reading-comicbook-committee-cites-torrent.html?searchResultPosition=1 1964-02     General Precision shows off 47" disc     https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/60s/64/Pop-1964-02.pdf  pg. 54 1974-02     atari and Kee Games arrangement clarified     https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_31/page/51/mode/1up?view=theater Pong boon leads to arcade bombs     https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_32/page/45/mode/1up?view=theater     https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_34/page/50/mode/1up MITS introduces Programmer add-on     https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1974/Poptronics-1974-02.pdf   pg. 19        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Instrumentation_and_Telemetry_Systems#Calculators Sony becomes Heathkit distributor     https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1974/Poptronics-1974-02.pdf   pg. 16 Heathkit introduces digital color TV     https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1974/Poptronics-1974-02.pdf   pg. 18 Sinclair announces pocket TV     https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1974/Poptronics-1974-02.pdf   pg. 18        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV-1      Nixon addresses privacy in the age of the computer     Richard M. Nixon. (February 23, 1974). Radio Address About the American Right of Privacy.. Primary Sources in U.S. Presidential History. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:47DJ-HKP0-01K9-024S-00000-00&context=1516831.     LA Flipper ban upheld on appeal    https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_31/page/51/mode/1up?view=theater       https://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-fw-archives-pinball-games-banned-in-los-angeles-20180911-htmlstory.html        https://la.curbed.com/2013/7/15/10219774/pinball-and-claw-games-were-illegal-in-la-from-1939-until-1974 1984-02 Bally/Williams merger called off     Replay Feb. 1984, pg. 10, 21      Bally/Midway cancel game leasing plans     Replay Feb. 1984, pg.  Nintendo predicts profit drop     (February 14, 1984). The Japan Economic Journal. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3S8H-2380-000H-H4N7-00000-00&context=1516831. Nolan steps down at Pizza Time     Replay Feb. 1984, pg.  19        https://archive.org/details/cashbox46unse_2/page/29/mode/1up More deck chair shuffling at Atari     Replay Feb. 1984, pg.  Warner sells Malibu     Replay Feb. 1984, pg.  50 Simutrek files for Chapter 11     Replay Feb. 1984, pg.  19 CVS declares bankruptcy     Replay Feb. 1984, pg. 10        https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-02-02/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater GoldmanSachs sees arcade decline continuing     https://archive.org/details/cashbox46unse_3/page/34/mode/1up?view=theater Bally/Midway taps Budweiser for cross promotion     https://archive.org/details/cashbox46unse_4/page/30/mode/1up?view=theater        https://archive.org/details/cashbox46unse_3/page/36/mode/1up?view=theater Don Bluth talks Space Ace     https://archive.org/details/cashbox46unse_3/page/42/mode/1up?view=theater Nintendo promotes Larry Holmes' Punch Out!     Replay Feb. 1984, pg. 10         https://archive.org/details/cashbox46unse_3/page/31/mode/1up?view=theater Twin Galaxies crowns Video Game Champs     Replay Feb. 1984, pg.  22      Famicom dominates Japanese market     (February 7, 1984). Sales of video games in Japan topped one-million mark last year. The Japan Economic Journal. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3S8H-2390-000H-H4SN-00000-00&context=1516831. Mattel tells retailers "Show me the money!!"     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-11/page/167/mode/1up?view=theater Imagic licenses to Amiga     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-11/page/166/mode/1up?view=theater      More impressions from CES     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-11/page/165/mode/1up?view=theater      Coleco makes big promises     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-11/page/171/mode/1up?view=theater        https://www.mobygames.com/platform/colecoadam/      Commodore rethinking 264     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-11/page/170/mode/1up?view=theater Commodore announces next gen     https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-02/page/n7/mode/2up        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_900 IBM plans to go big on PC production     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_900 PCJr fracass becomes clearer     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-11/page/170/mode/1up?view=theater Byte reviews the Mac     https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-02/page/n31/mode/1up?view=theater Byte bemoans the move to compatibility     https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-02/page/n5/mode/2up Sinclair breaks with Timex     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-02-02/page/n1/mode/2up?view=theater CBM top execs leave     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-02-09/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater Toshiba to develop "Super Chip"     "(FEBRUARY 8, 1984, WEDNESDAY). TOSHIBA TO DEVELOP ""SUPER-CHIP"". Japan Economic Newswire. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SP7-BB50-000F-P04M-00000-00&context=1516831.        (FEBRUARY 7, 1984, TUESDAY). 11 AREAS LIKELY TO BE DESIGNATED AS TECHNOPOLISES. Japan Economic Newswire. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SP7-BB60-000F-P064-00000-00&context=1516831.            (FEBRUARY 25, 1984, SATURDAY). MITI STICKING TO ""ARBITRATION"" CLAUSE IN SOFTWARE LAW. Japan Economic Newswire. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SP7-BB00-000F-P4KT-00000-00&context=1516831.        (February 14, 1984). IC production exceeded Y1 trillion in 1983; to rise 30% to reach Y1.5 trillion this year. The Japan Economic Journal. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3S8H-2370-000H-H4KH-00000-00&context=1516831." NEC introduces image processing chip     (February 21, 1984). NEC develops high-speed image pipelined processor; World's 1st non-von Neumann type. The Japan Economic Journal. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3S8H-2350-000H-H4DW-00000-00&context=1516831.       https://www.shmj.or.jp/english/pdf/ic/exhibi704E.pdf    Personal CPM to be included on Z80s     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_900 Edutainment is the next big thing     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-11/page/165/mode/1up?view=theater        https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-11/page/166/mode/1up?view=theater Avalon Hill teams up with Toei     (February 14, 1984). Avalon Hill to sell simulation games in Japan. The Japan Economic Journal. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3S8H-2370-000H-H4K1-00000-00&context=1516831. TI 99 4/A software not dead yet!     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-11/page/164/mode/2up      US eases restrictions on exports to China     (FEBRUARY 23, 1984, THURSDAY). U.S. TO EASE CONTROL ON TECHNOLOGY EXPORTS TO CHINA. Japan Economic Newswire. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SP7-BB00-000F-P4NT-00000-00&context=1516831. Japanese copyright reform debate heats up     (FEBRUARY 1, 1984, WEDNESDAY). FIRST JAPAN-U.S. DIALOGUE ON SOFTWARE LAW IN FEBRUARY. Japan Economic Newswire. https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SP7-BB80-000F-P0FP-00000-00&context=1516831.     Apple loses IP case in Australia     https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-02/page/n9/mode/1up?view=theater      Vectrex RIP     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-11/page/162/mode/2up Recommended Links: The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/ They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/ Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/ Retromags.com: https://www.retromags.com/ Games That Weren't - https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/ Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play. Copyright Karl Kuras

Charles Powell, NK8O, would argue that an early interest in radio and communications aided him in making a transition from professional French Horn player to pediatric doctor rather than suffer the mid-life crisis.  Charles likes just about everything that ham radio offers including POTA, CW, kit building, old rigs, and operating his own DXpeditions from exotic locations around the world.  NK8O and I discuss these topics and more in this QSO Today.

IBM introduces the PCJr Coleco ships the Adam Infocom disses graphics   These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM   This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in November 1993. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events.   Alex Smith of They Create Worlds is our cohost. Check out his podcast here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/ and order his book here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/book   Get us on your mobile device: Android: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine   And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM   Send comments on Mastodon @videogamenewsroomtimemachine@oldbytes.space Or twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com   Links:   7 Minutes in Heaven: Beach Head Video Version: https://www.patreon.com/posts/96037276 https://www.mobygames.com/game/19932/beach-head/     Corrections: October 1983 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/october-1983-94392565 Ethan's fine site The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Chronicles Revisited Podcast 14 — Touch the Screen! Touch the Screen! https://www.smoliva.blog/post/chronicles-revisited-podcast-014/ The Computer Chronicles 40th Anniversary with S.M. Oliva https://www.patreon.com/posts/computer-40th-s-95453094 https://www.cashbox-magazine.com/about https://www.mobygames.com/game/11121/chiller/     1973 Video Games take center stage at MOA show https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_18/page/51/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_21/page/47/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_19/page/55/mode/1up   Atari asks ops to steer clear of copycats https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_19/page/61/mode/1up   German arcade owners seeth https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_21/page/48/mode/1up   Heathkit offers budget priced calculator kit https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1973/Poptronics-1973-11.pdf pg. 89   Electronic watches on the rise https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1973/Poptronics-1973-11.pdf pg. 5   Video Phone shown at CeBit https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1973/Poptronics-1973-11.pdf pg. 19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzdCKBZP4Jo     1983-11 Williams loses $6 million in fourth quarter Games People, Nov. 19, 1983, pg. 11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecVcA3l6v3E   Atari is the (coinop) come-back kid RePlay Nov. 1983, pg. 123   Battle of the Cons Replay, Nov. 1983, pg. 15   Tokyo Amusement Machine Show side steps laser craze Replay Nov. 1983, pg. 23 Games People Nov. 28, 1983, pg. 9 Replay Nov. 1983, pg. 86   Monitor maker TSK cuts credit Games People, Nov. 19, 1983, pg. 1   Activision to lay off a quarter of its workforce https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/12/business/activision-sets-layoffs-for-90.html   Odyssey2 is no more https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-8/page/120/mode/1up?view=theater   Starpath bows out https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-8/page/117/mode/1up?view=theater   Fox drops out of games https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/10/business/fox-quitting-video-games.html   Milton Bradley expects losses https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/15/business/milton-bradley-expects-deficit.html   Vectrex debuts 3D Imager https://archive.org/details/logical_gamer_novdec83/page/5/mode/2up   Spectravideo's Compumate gets reviewed Personal Computer News, Nov. 23, 1983 pg. 38   Amiga to release computer/game combo machine https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Fun_with_Computer_Games_Vol_02_No_01_1983-11_Fun_Games_Publishing_US/page/n105/mode/2up   Berlin Consumer Trade Show sees micros and video games galore http://www.atarimuseum.de/gamesum.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_MZ https://www.videospielgeschichten.de/die-fans-fragen-klaus-ollmann-antwortet/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_Videopac%2B_G7400 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFA_(Messe)#1970%E2%80%931990 http://www.kultmags.com/mags.php?folder=Q1BVLzE5ODM= https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp7z5j6N5lhyqNEEtxz1bnkhjCTbJ_rqS&si=GVvJ9SIMYkaOO7av   TI stock shoots up https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/01/business/a-seesaw-day-for-computers.html   IBM Introduces the PC Jr https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/02/business/the-debut-of-ibm-s-junior.html https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/02/business/ibm-s-speedy-redirection.html https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/06/business/week-in-business-japan-s-car-makers-are-sent-a-message.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PCjr   Small Idaho company to supply PCJr keyboard https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/26/business/advanced-input-s-ibm-coup.html   Atari and Coleco hike prices https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/10/business/atari-coleco-raise-computer-prices.html Personal Computer News Nov. 9, 1983, pg. 6 https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/12/business/commodore-corp-reports-earnings-for-qtr-to-sept-30.html?searchResultPosition=1   Atari backs away from home computers https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-8/page/119/mode/1up?view=theater   Coleco lowers Adam shipment targets Toy & Hobby World November 1984, pg. S1 https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Fun_with_Computer_Games_Vol_02_No_01_1983-11_Fun_Games_Publishing_US/page/n11/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/logical_gamer_novdec83/page/5/mode/2up   JCPenney and KMart pass on Adam https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/15/business/penney-s-holiday-line-omits-adam-computer.html   Adam shipments lower than expected https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/24/business/dow-declines-0.20-in-heavy-trading.html   Adam review https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/29/science/personal-computers-the-new-adam-arrives-for-a-test.html   Cabbage Patch Doll Mania ensues https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/29/us/adoptable-dolls-aren-t-having-any-trouble-finding-homes.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage_Patch_Kids https://youtu.be/qR0aVHlXpvM?si=PoN1JgbZkmkA39Hi   Aquarius discounted https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1983/11/27/issue.html   Commodore teases TED https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1983-11-24/mode/1up?view=theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Plus/4   Comdex to be swamped by PC clones https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/80s/Byte-1983-11.pdf pg. 7   Tandy to enter PC compatible market https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/30/business/tandy-computer-s-hard-test.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000   HP moves to reduce OS options Personal Computer News, Nov. 2, 1983 pg. 3   Reflex launches Hercules Personal Computer News, Nov. 2, 1983 pg. 3   Apple outlook flat https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/08/business/apple-sees-flat-profit-outlook.html   Apple funds IBM clone adapter Personal Computer News, Nov. 23, 1983 pg. 2, 5 Personal Computer News, Nov. 30, 1983, pg. 4   Microsoft Debuts Windows https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/13/business/wekk-in-business-more-good-news-about-inflation.html https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/11/business/microsoft-displays-window-program.html?searchResultPosition=1 Personal Computer News, Nov. 30, 1983, pg. 4, 6   Lightpens, the interface choice of the future https://archive.org/details/1983-11-computegazette/page/n33/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/commodore-user-magazine-02/page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/1983-11-compute-magazine/page/n170/mode/1up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/Info-64_Issue_2_Winter_83-84_1983_Cybertech_US/page/n13/mode/2up   Newbrain to return from the dead Personal Computer News, Nov. 2, 1983 pg. 3   Electron deliveries fall short Personal Computer News, Nov. 2, 1983 pg. 2 Personal Computer News, Nov. 30, 1983, pg. 2   Acorn second processor sticker shock Personal Computer News, Nov. 30, 1983, pg. 2   Dynasty Computer corp wants to sell you a computer in your home https://www.retromags.com/files/file/5858-electronic-games-hotline-volume-2-no-7-november-6-1983/ pg. 2 http://www.atariprotos.com/othersystems/sorcerer/hardware/smartalec.htm   Broderbund announces partnership with TI https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-8/page/119/mode/1up?view=theater Toy and Hobby World Nov. 1984, pg. S12 https://www.retromags.com/files/file/5858-electronic-games-hotline-volume-2-no-7-november-6-1983/ pg. 8 https://archive.org/details/1983-11-computegazette/page/n49/mode/2up   Infocom disses graphics https://archive.org/details/1983-11-computegazette/page/n23/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/1983-11-computegazette/page/n29/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/family-computing-03/page/n15/mode/2up   EA brings album cover aesthetics to game software packaging https://archive.org/details/family-computing-03/page/n15/mode/2up   Quicksilva arrives in the US https://archive.org/details/1983-11-computegazette/page/n133/mode/2up   Mirror Group jumps into software https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1983-11-17/mode/1up?view=theater   Computer magazines boom https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/09/business/boom-in-computer-magazines.html   Hobby Computer magazine debuts http://www.kultmags.com/mags.php?folder=SGFwcHkgQ29tcHV0ZXIvMTk4Mw==   Info64 debuts https://archive.org/details/Info-64_Issue_2_Winter_83-84_1983_Cybertech_US   GameLine adds stock info and email https://www.retromags.com/files/file/5858-electronic-games-hotline-volume-2-no-7-november-6-1983/ pg. 2   Time exits Teletext https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/22/business/time-inc-drops-teletext-experiment.html   Online education may be the future https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/20/us/from-1500-miles-professor-teaches-his-class-by-computer.html   Bond plays games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUc4GkMN1qs RePlay Nov. 1983, pg. 178 https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-2-8/page/117/mode/1up?view=theater   Atari 5200 ad mentioned in Videogaming and computergaming illustrated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS-pingC-xY https://archive.org/details/Videogaming_and_Computer_Gaming_Illustrated_1983-11_Ion_International_US/page/n3/mode/1up https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/09/business/advertising-changes-by-atari-and-ibm.html   Japan agrees to loosen restrictions on the Yen https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/13/business/wekk-in-business-more-good-news-about-inflation.html   New study finds games designed to be addictive Games People, Nov. 19, 1983, pg. 1 https://archive.org/details/mindatplaypsycho0000loft/page/n9/mode/2up   Recommended Links:   The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/ They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/ Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/ Retromags.com: https://www.retromags.com/ Games That Weren't - https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/     Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play.     Copyright Karl Kuras      

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1287 Release Date: October 28, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Terry Saunders, N1KIN, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Marvin Turner, W0MET, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Bob Donlon, W3BOO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:59:24 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1287 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: AMSAT Board Appoints Officers, Hears Reports 2. AMSAT: ESTCube-2 Fails To Deploy After Launch 3. AMSAT: Scientists Confirm Ancient Solar Storm 4. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 5. WIA: World Radio Conference 2023 Starts Next Month 6. WIA: Mysterious Radio Signals Coming From Space 7. FCC: FCC Seeks Alternative Delivery Options For Wireless Alerts 8. Lookout Mountain Wildfire Also Affected Ham Radio Operators; Fire Said To Be Contained 9. ARRL: FCC To Vote On Removing Symbol Rate Restrictions 10. ARRL: Speak Up For Your Spectrum: 60-Meter Band Comments Due To The FCC By October 30th, 2023 11. ARRL: Amateur Radio STEM Education Takes Center Stage At Pacificon 12. ARRL: $31k Raised For Education From ARRL Online Auction 13. ARRL: ARISS Is Planning Their 40th Anniversary Celebration Conference 14. QSO's With Russian Amateurs On The Six Meter Band Is Deemed Legal 15. Missouri Repeater System Receives Grant For Upgrades 16. YL's Throughout Australia Prepare For ALARA Meeting This November 17. 80 Years On The Air Is Celebrated By UK Shortwave Broadcast Site 18. Wisconsin Jamboree On The Air Weekend Earns Scout Merit Badges 19. Swedish Historic Station SAQ Transmitted On UN Day 20. Shortwave Event Is Being Held By Station In Taiwan 21. Ham Radio Boot Camp Is Coming Up 22. NASA: NASA announces the sun is in the process of losing (or reversing) its magnetic poles 23. ARDC is seeking volunteers to fill its committees for 2024 24. Gigaparts to open a 55,000 square foot super store in Huntsville, Alabama 25. ARRL: Amateurs show major concern about the Shortwave Modernization Proposal 26. FCC: October 2023 Volunteer Monitoring Program report Plus these Special Features This Week: * Our technology reporter Leo Laporte, W6TWT will be here to discuss Moore's Law and its effect on tomorrows computer chips, and will ask exactly what is high tech? * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Tower Climbing and Antenna Safety w/Greg Stoddard KF9MP, puts aside his climbing gear and takes his amateur transceivers On The Rails as he talks about operating amateur radio while taking a cross country trip on a train. * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, wants to talk about nise this week * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests and more. * Weekly Propagation Forecast from the ARRL * Bill Continelli, W2XOY - The History of Amateur Radio. 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I start off by showing off an old Heathkit catalog from 1978, and the way that we used to build electronics like you build Ikea furniture today. The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has blocked the Microsoft and Activision merger on the grounds that it could create a monopoly in the cloud gaming space - and even made the decision assuming that Google Stadia failed because it didn't have Call of Duty on it. We also discuss what the next steps could be, because not all is lost yet, but it is a large hurdle that was somewhat unexpected. Then we talk to Rob about why we actually do want Microsoft to buy Activision.

Episode 94 Electronic Drone Music   Playlist Yves Klein, “Monotone-Silence Symphony” written in 1947. I could not find any recorded versions of this piece, so I produced this realization of my own to capture the feel and nature of this drone work. Klein conceived this as performance art in which an orchestra would only play a single note, continuously, for 20 minutes followed by another 20 minutes of silence. I've examined the score and can see that Klein also intended that the same note could be played in different octaves. The playing would have been staged so that one group of musicians could overlap another, both for reasons of fatigue but also to allow smooth transitions for the wind instruments because players would need to take a breath. My version includes electronic instruments for multiple parts, each part playing the same note, often in different octaves. The introduction of instrumental groups was planned in stages, each overlapping the previous grouping, gradually shortening in duration as the piece goes on. La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, “31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM” from 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM The Volga Delta (1969 Edition X). Eponymous untitled album popularly known as "The Black Record" or "The Black Album" Mine is an original copy. The cover is black gloss print on matt black and very hard to read. Numbered edition limited to 2800 copies of which numbers 1-98 are dated and signed by the artists. This work “was recorded at the date and time indicated in the title, at Galerie Heiner Friedrich, München. The work “31 VII 69 10:26-10:49 PM” is a section of the longer work: Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery. Play this side at 33 1/3 rpm only.” Early work employing electronic drones. By the mid-sixties, Young and his partner Marian Zazeela were creating music for electronic drones as an extension of their group, The Theatre of Eternal Music. Using a Heathkit sine wave oscillator and later Moog modules as sources, they created drone pieces that employed “extended duration time signatures” and “long sustained tones, intervals, triads and chords to create the musical texture.” A reissue has now occurred on the label Super Viaduct. Tony Conrad, “Process Four of Fantastic Glissando” from Fantastic Glissando (2006 Table of The Elements). Dating from 1969, this recording contains various versions of the same sound piece, each processed slightly differently. “Process Four” accumulates the processed applied to the previous three processes. The first glissando recording was made using a sine wave oscillator processed through pump counter with a stereo-phase glissando. Recorded December 12, 1969, on a Revox reel-to-reel tape recorder set at 3¾ ips. Conrad was in LaMonte Young's circle of friends and performers and joined him on many productions of The Theatre of Eternal Music. Teresa Rampazzi , “Duodeno normale” and “Duodeno Patologico” from Musica Endoscopica (1972). Here we have two short electronic works from this remarkable women composer that emphasize the drone. The pulsing tones and textures were played manually using audio oscillators. Music produced by the N.P.S. (Nuove Proposte Sonore) group for the documentary entitled "Gastroscopia" (Gastroscopy) realized in 1972 by Prof. Domenico Oselladore, University of Padova, in collaboration with Istituto De Angeli s.p.a., Milan. This documentary was presented at the Scientific Film Festival, Policlinico Universitario di Padova, 1972. “Duodeno Normale” begins with a drone consisting of two continuous tones: a low-pitched buzz from a sawtooth wave accompanied by a pulsating higher-pitched tone. The drone is joined at the 11-second mark by a high-pitched ringing tone played on a third oscillator. This ringing tone is repeated every 5–8 seconds and sustained for two or more seconds each time. The irregular timing of the tone suggests that Rampazzi was manually playing it by turning the dial of an oscillators. The ringing tone is sustained for the duration of the piece, creating a three-part drone. The drones fade out, beginning with the lower buzzing tone. “Duodeno Patologico” uses a similar process. The Taj-Mahal Travelers, “The Taj-Mahal Travelers Between 6:20~6:46P.M.” from July 15, 1972 (1972 CBS/Sony). Released in Japan. Early album by the group founded by experimental electronic musician and violinist Takehisa Kosugi. Electronic Contrabass, Suntool, Harmonica, Performer Sheet Iron, Ryo Koike; Guitar Electronic Quiter, Percussion, Michihiro Kimura; Electronic Trumpet, Harmonica, Castanets, Seiji Nagai; Vibraphone, Santoor Suntool, Yukio Tsuchiya; Electronic Violin, Electronics, Radio Oscillators, Voice, Takehisa Kosugi; Vocals, Tokio Hasegawa. This album was recorded live at Sohgetsu Hall, Tokyo, Japan, July, 1972. Originally released using Sony's SQ quadraphonic system. Yoshi Wada, “Earth Horns with Electronic Drone”(1974) from Earth Horns with Electronic Drone (2009 EM Records). Recorded at Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, February 24, 1974. Electronics, Liz Phillips; Pipehorn Players, Barbara Stewart, Garrett List, Jim Burton, Yoshi Wada; Electronic equipment designed by, Liz Phillips, Yoshi Wada; Pipehorns constructed by, composed by, recorded by, Yoshi Wada. Combining four of Wada's self-made "pipehorns" (constructed of plumbing materials, over three meters in length), with an electronic drone tuned to the electrical current of the performance space, this is a lost masterpiece of early drone/minimalism. The performance filled the space with complex overtones generated by the ever-shifting interplay of the breathing horns and the constant electronic drone. Lou Reed, “Metal Machine Music” (1975 RCA). All music and electronics by Lou Reed. Inspired by LaMonte Young, this is what I would call a noise drone! Reed himself points to the influence of Young in his lean liner notes. "SPECIFICATIONS: No Synthesizers, No ARP, No Instruments?” Sony 1/2 track; Uher 1/4 track; Pioneer 1/4 track; 5 piggyback Marshall Tube Amps in series; Arbitor distortor (Jimi's); Marantz Preamps; Marantz Amps; Altec Voice of America Monitor Speakers; Sennheiser Headphones; Drone cognizance and harmonic possibilities vis a vis Lamont Young's Dream Music; Rock orientation, melodically disguised, i.e. drag; Avoidance of any type of atonality.; Electro-Voice high filter microphones; Fender Tremolo Unit; Sunn Tremolo Unit; Ring Modulator/Octave Relay Jump; Fender Dual Showman Bass Amp with Reverb Unit (Pre-Columbia) white. Eliane Radigue, “Triptypch” Part 2” (1978). (2009 Important Records). Electronic Instrumentation: ARP 2500 modular synthesizer and analog, multitrack tape composition. The piece uses real-time ARP programming, tape loops, and recorded acoustic sounds. This piece is characteristic of Radigue's fervent exploration of gradually changing layers of harmonically intersecting tones. It is the kind of drone work that can easily dip the listener into a pool of trance and is one of the composer's many works grounded by her dedication to Tibetan Buddhism. Note the overall slowly evolving changes formed by overlapping sustained tones presented without any clearly articulated beginnings and endings. John Cage, Gary Verkade, “Organ2/ASLSP” from The Works for Organ (2013 Mode). John Cage composed “Organ2/ASLSP” in 1987 for solo organ. This piece has been realized at a variety of lengths, from about 30 minutes, to 8 hours, and what is arguably the longest interpretation of music ever played, now 23 years into its projected run of 639-years being performed now in Halberstadt Cathedral, Germany where a special organ was created to perform the piece unattended until a chord change is called for. This work is not electronic, although the pipe organ may be thought of by some, including me, as the first synthesizer. Although I won't be playing this work except in the background of this introduction, I needed to mention it because of its significance in the canon of drone music. “This composition consists, like Cage's ASLSP, of 8 pieces. Unlike ASLSP, however, all pieces here should be played. Any of the 8 pieces may be repeated, and these repetitions may be played subsequent to any of the other pieces. The published score consists of a title page, brief instructions, and 4 leaves with music. Each page contains 2 pieces.” Phill Niblock, “Guitar, too, for four—The Massed Version” from G2,44+/x2 (2002 Moikai). 24-track mix of guitar samples from Rafael Toral, Robert Poss, Susan Stenger, David First. Guitarists adding 2 live parts each to the 24 track mix version: Kevin Drumm, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Robert Poss, Alan Licht. Niblock's usually works with acoustic instruments, so this venture with electric guitar is somewhat unique in his body of work. He asks musicians to play parts that are first recorded and then reworked in the mixing and editing process, largely to eradicate pauses and silences so that the sounds can be blended without such interruptions. Pauline Oliveros and Reynols, "Half a Dove in New York, Half a Dove in Buenos Aires" (1999) (2022 Smalltown Supersound). Reynols is an Argentinian experimental band that began in 1993 as Burt Reynols Ensamble. Band member Alan Courtis wrote to me, saying, “First of all, thanks a lot for mentioning our Pauline Oliveros in the arms of Reynols collaboration in your book Electronic & Experimental Music. She was a great musician/composer and friend.” After which he pointed me to a “recent release of an old project we made with Pauline back in 1999.” This is it! Opening background music: Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, Jim O'Rourke, “Side 1” from Tonic 19-01-2001 (2023 Black Truffle). Performers, Arnold Dreyblatt, Jim O'Rourke, Tony Conrad. Recorded January 19,2001 at Tonic, New York City. Opening and closing sequences voiced by Anne Benkovitz. Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation. For additional notes, please see my blog, Noise and Notations.

Jim Aspinwall, NO1PC, was the fly on the wall, as a kid growing up in Madison, Wisconsin, listening to his dad and friends talk about electronics, radio, and television repair.  This led to a “hands on” electronics education that kept him employed from junior high school to this day. As a public safety volunteer, Jim believes that giving back to the community is key to a happy life. Amateur radio, and all of its benefits, is the icing on Jim's cake of life.  N01PC is my QSO Today.

Jerry Spring, VE6TL, like many hams got an early start in amateur radio as a teen, but stepped out of the hobby to nurture a career and family.  Upon returning Jerry revisited his love of vintage WW2 gear, vintage transceivers in general, and a love of CW and contesting to make enough contacts for DXCC.  ForJerry, both hamshack and workbench are fully operational and busy.  VE6TL is my QSO Today.

Episode 106: No special guests, but plenty of amp questions answered and some recipes!  Some of the topics discussed:  1:01 It's good to be anxious 3:59 Our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/vintageamps 4:18 Any interest in a Seattle amp swap meet / hang on December 31? Message me at podcast@fretboardjournal.com. 4:49 Deluxe's TAVA-tribute El Pato-Tone 9-volt practice amp: Now available in the green El Pato can! (Reverb link) 7:51 Music recommendation: Thee Sinseers (NPR Tiny Desk concert link); The "5" Royales (YouTube link) 9:23 How is amp output affected by adding speakers? 12:39 Impedance vs resistance, revisited; phaser analysis; chicken curry 17:27 The Soursound transformers episode (link); when does the speaker deep dive happen?; amps with hybrid circuits; harpist Emily Hopkins (YouTube link), 8417 tubes 27:38 Netflix's new documentary, 'Travelin' Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall' 30:45 Harp player Paul Oscher; Jontavious Willis' interview with Oscher on the Diddie Wah Diddie podcast (link) 33:34 Tips on extending wiring; a Western Electric Slice 37:06 Safe long-term storage of vintage amps; a Falcon discovered in the trunk of a car 40:23 What's the simplest tube reverb circuit? the Boss FRV-1 '63 Fender Reverb pedal, vintage Premier 90 Reverb tanks 45:38 'The How & Why of Guitar Tube Amps' by Gar Gillies (order: http://www.garnetamps.com/order_b.htm) 50:57 Now you have a third salad dressing 51:31 Is the speaker switch I made safe to use? Grits with smoked gouda 1:00:07 Buying a second-hand Mesa Boogie amp 1:04:02 What's the CSA Thermal Protector on a Fender Musicmaster Bass amp? 1:06:52 An Australian Philips PA conversion that won't stop popping and crackling; cathode resistors and plate load resistors 1:09:17 Three Marshall Super Lead heads, one that has ghosting; filter capacitance 1:18:35 Soup with kale and white beans 1:21:01 Yank magazine; a fancy tube tester (and a Heathkit signal generator) still available at Skip's; Rabbit Hole bourbon (link); Sherwood (British TV show); see Skip at the Marin Guitar Show (January 2023, link) This week's episode is sponsored by Calton Cases, Amplified Parts and Grez Guitars. You can also use the discount code FRET10 to save 10% off your Izotope purchase. Support us on Patreon.com for added content and the occasional surprise and don't forget to get a subscription to the Fretboard Journal (link). Digital subscriptions start at just $30. There's a giant index page for nearly all the former topics we've discussed in our first 100 episodes found here.  Submit your amp questions, recipes and life hacks to the podcast via podcast@fretboardjournal.com and don't forget to share the show with friends on social media. 

Will Ravenel, AI4VE, like many of us,  returned to amateur radio after raising a family.  Will is active in the QRP-ARCI, as its treasurer, and takes leadership positions in his ham clubs.     Will loves to operate ham radio's first digital mode, CW, using either hand, at low power.  AI4VE shares his operating expertise, running low power, in the field and on the beach, in this QSO Today.

On this episode: LOL : My AI bot : Tomy Omnibot 2000 (1984) · 2. RB Robot RB5X (1983) · 3. Arctec Gemini (1985) · 4. Heathkit HERO 1 (1982) · 5. Androbot Topo (1983) · 6. Heathkit and voicemails from Detroit and inspirado projecto radio drops in to reveal the puzzle pieces

How did you get started in broadcast engineering? Through Amateur Radio? Building a Heathkit? Perhaps an electronics chapter in high school science? Let's turn the page to today's inspiration and learning opportunities. Sean McMahon is a Robotics Team Head Coach, while Bill Bennet is a "Recovering Broadcast Engineer". We're looking into STEM / STEAM programs where the next generation of media engineers will come from.

How did you get started in broadcast engineering? Through Amateur Radio? Building a Heathkit? Perhaps an electronics chapter in high school science? Let's turn the page to today's inspiration and learning opportunities. Sean McMahon is a Robotics Team Head Coach, while Bill Bennet is a "Recovering Broadcast Engineer". We're looking into STEM / STEAM programs where the next generation of media engineers will come from.

How did you get started in broadcast engineering? Through Amateur Radio? Building a Heathkit? Perhaps an electronics chapter in high school science? Let’s turn the page to today’s inspiration and learning opportunities. Sean McMahon is a Robotics Team Head Coach, while Bill Bennet is a "Recovering Broadcast Engineer". We're looking into STEM / STEAM programs where the next generation of media engineers will come from. Show Notes:First Inspires - A Global Robotics Community Preparing Young People for the FutureGuests:Sean McMahon - Robotics Team Head CoachBill Bennett - “Recovering Broadcast Engineer” & Robotics Mentor Host:Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas BroadcastingFollow TWiRT on Twitter and on FacebookTWiRT is brought to you by:Nautel and the continuing informative live webinars. Sign up for free!Broadcasters General Store, with outstanding service, saving, and support. Online at BGS.cc. Broadcast Bionics - making radio smarter with Bionic Studio, visual radio, and social media tools at Bionic.radio.Angry Audio - with StudioHub cables and adapters. Audio problems disappear when you get Angry at AngryAudio.com. And MaxxKonnectWireless - Prioritized High Speed Internet Service designed for Transmitter Sites and Remote Broadcasts. Look for in-depth radio engineering articles in Radio-Guide magazine.Subscribe to Audio:iTunesRSSStitcherTuneInSubscribe to Video:iTunesRSSYouTube

How did you get started in broadcast engineering? Through Amateur Radio? Building a Heathkit? Perhaps an electronics chapter in high school science? Let’s turn the page to today’s inspiration and learning opportunities. Sean McMahon is a Robotics Team Head Coach, while Bill Bennet is a "Recovering Broadcast Engineer". We're looking into STEM / STEAM programs where the next generation of media engineers will come from. Show Notes:First Inspires - A Global Robotics Community Preparing Young People for the FutureGuests:Sean McMahon - Robotics Team Head CoachBill Bennett - “Recovering Broadcast Engineer” & Robotics Mentor Host:Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas BroadcastingFollow TWiRT on Twitter and on FacebookTWiRT is brought to you by:Nautel and the continuing informative live webinars. Sign up for free!Broadcasters General Store, with outstanding service, saving, and support. Online at BGS.cc. Broadcast Bionics - making radio smarter with Bionic Studio, visual radio, and social media tools at Bionic.radio.Angry Audio - with StudioHub cables and adapters. Audio problems disappear when you get Angry at AngryAudio.com. And MaxxKonnectWireless - Prioritized High Speed Internet Service designed for Transmitter Sites and Remote Broadcasts. Look for in-depth radio engineering articles in Radio-Guide magazine.Subscribe to Audio:iTunesRSSStitcherTuneInSubscribe to Video:iTunesRSSYouTube

This week we sat down with Geo Kitta from Guiildaxe Guitars. Geo began his life journey as a musician in 1966 when he bought a (new) Japanese bass for $40 using paper route money from Woolworths Dept Store in Omaha Nebraska. He suffered through learning how to play on a bass with strings high off the fretboard and no real understanding that it could be adjusted better. He couldn't afford an amp but finally got one, a Heathkit that he and his dad built. An artist from birth - Geo loved the music around him then and wanted "in" as so many '60s kids did, expanding his creativity into music. Art degrees from the Kansas City Art Institute (BFA) and School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA) kept him busy investigating and making art but all the while playing bass in various bands in Omaha, KC and Chicago. Geo moved to the Bay Area in 1990 and continued to make art and play music. In 2013, he decided to combine his love of art and music by starting Gildaxe, which initially focused on custom art finishes incorporating the ancient craft of gilding (gold leaf, silver leaf, copper leaf and variegated leaf) and more recently designing my own unique custom bass guitars. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bestbassgear/message

Mel Swanberg, WA6JBD, has a love of radio that goes back to his childhood.  Growing up in Southern California, Mel found his Elmers and Mentors that led him into a career in the land mobile business  and public safety radio.  Mel is the former president of the Cactus Intertie, perhaps the largest point to point full duplex amateur radio network in the World. Other interests include microwave communications and he is a leader in the San Bernardino Microwave Society.  WA6JBD is my QSO Today

The BBC Micro - Interview with Hermann Hauser Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 99 for May 2020 of the Floppy Days Podcast, where we look at home computers of the 70’s and 80’s across the globe, not just the U.S. This episode is one in a series of episodes on one of the iconic British machines that was so important to the home computer revolution: The BBC Micro.  In episode 97, I had an interview with one of the key members of the BBC Micro team: Mr. Steve Furber.  In this episode, with Steve’s help, I was able to get an interview with another key member of that team: Mr. Hermann Hauser. Last episode (#98) I summarized the history of the BBC Micro and I don’t want to repeat that here, but I want to give you just a bit of information about Hermann to help set the stage for the interview to follow: Chris Curry and Mr. Hauser set up a company called Acorn Computer Ltd. and in January 1979 they launched their first product: a microcomputer kit named Acorn System 75.  The name Acorn was chosen because the microcomputer system was to be expandable and growth-oriented and appeared before "Apple Computer" in a telephone directory. Their follow-up product was a microcomputer called the Atom.  After it had been released into the market, Acorn (due to an idea proposed by Hermann) decided to build an improved 6502-based machine with far greater expansion capabilities: the Proton. Hauser quickly pulled in Steve Furber (who had been working for Acorn on a voluntary basis) and Sophie Wilson to help complete a revised version of the Proton which met the specifications that the British Broadcasting Corporation was shopping around to find a partner for their planned literacy program.  BBC visited Acorn and were given a demonstration of the Proton. Shortly afterwards, the literacy program computer contract was awarded to Acorn, and the Proton was launched in December 1981 as the BBC Micro. Hermann Hauser believes that if he had had just a little more foresight all those years ago, the world would now talk about Acorn compatible rather than IBM compatible computers.  Wouldn’t that be interesting? Anyway, I’m very excited and proud to have gotten an interview with Hermann and I enjoyed talking with him very much.  I hope you enjoy it as well. I’m still planning, in upcoming episodes, to cover all of the usual topics on the Beeb, such as its history in depth, tech specs, modern upgrades, Web sites and a ton of other information about this machine. Before we jump into the interview, I’ll spend just a moment to let you know about any new acquisitions I’ve managed to get for the hobby and any hobby-related things I’ve been working on. Please enjoy! Links Mentioned in the Show: New Acquisitions Heathkit ET-3400 Microprocessor Trainer - https://www.vintage-computer.com/heathkit3400.shtml  ET-3400 Microprocessors Book 1 - https://archive.org/details/6800-Microprocessors-Book-1and-2-Heathkit-1985  Oh! Pascal by Michael Clancy - https://www.amazon.com/Oh-PASCAL-Doug-Cooper/dp/0393954455  Software Tools in Pascal - Brian Kernighan - https://www.amazon.com/Software-Tools-Pascal-Brian-Kernighan/dp/0201103427/  Personal Pascal for the Atari ST  https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Pascal-Atari-1040-Version/dp/B000Q9VAOU  https://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n1/pascalandmodula2.html Upcoming Shows July 24-25, KansasFest - https://www.kansasfest.org/ (virtual) cost $20 to register August 1-2, VCF West, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/ - going virtual Aug. 20 - Aug. 23, 2020, Fujiama, Lengenfeld, Germany - http://abbuc.de/~atarixle/fuji/2020/  September 12-13, VCF Midwest, Elmhurst, IL - http://vcfmw.org/  October 10 - 12, VCF East, InfoAge Science Center, Wall, NJ - http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/ NOTE: You can order a t-shirt to support the VCF events at http://vcfed.org/wp/t-shirts/ for $20 + shipping October 24, Chicago TI International World Faire, Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL - http://chicagotiug.sdf.org/faire/  October 30 - November 1, 2020, Tandy Assembly, Springfield, OH - http://www.tandyassembly.com/  December ?, World of Commodore, Mississauga (Toronto), Ontario, Canada - https://www.tpug.ca/ 

Dale Parfitt, W4OP, developed a love for operating  VHF and above, including moonbounce operation, from an early exposure to a 6 meter Gonset Communicator, or Gooney Box. His love for electronics grew into a career as an electronics engineer and the entrepreneur founder of Par Electronics where custom filters and antennas are Dale’s special forte.  W4OP tells his story in this QSO Today.

Glen Jenkins, WB4KTF, grew up on US Marine bases in the 50’s and 60’s, and was no stranger to starting over in new places.  Glen tells his ham radio story that includes a professional start in Israel, a stint in Moscow, a successful landing in Houston Texas, until Hurricane Harvey changed his retirement plans.  Glen loved his early Heathkit HF Transceivers, collecting Colliins gear, and working the digital modes on his modern station. WB4KTF is my QSO Today.

Janis Carson, AB2RA, first licensed in 1959,has been an active ham since childhood, has an interest in the restoration and repair of older tube type amateur rigs, is a frequent contributor to Electric Radio Magazine, and documents her projects on her own website. Janis may be the “Erin Brokovich” of ham radio, as an advocate for your hobby to the FCC, and she mentors new and old hams in her community.  AB2RA tells her ham radio story in this QSO Today.

In this episode, Mike and Pete talk about some of their first memories of audio gear, vinyl and Mike touches on his first exposure to true audiophile gear. Pete talks about his Sony Discman and Mike reminisces about his dads first hi-end stereo setup by H.H. Scott.Mike discusses his first Heathkit radio kit which was a Christmas present from his father when he was 12 and how as a kid, he disassembled every flashlight in the house. Mike and Pete talk about a future episode where Mike is going to give Pete a pair of Monolith M565C headphones and a couple of different cables for Pete to listen to and report back on the differences. The different cables will include a set of cables designed and built by Mike. Pete talks about how his artwork is on display in the social media lounge at the NBA playoffs in Chicago. Mike teases about how he wants Pete to tell the story of how and why Pete started creating his artwork that ended up being used in the NBA.#autoish #autoishpodcast #mikeandpete

Michael, Mike, Murphy, WU2D, separates his professional and his personal radio and electronics life by building, using, and working with vintage radios made no later than the early 1960s. As a collector and builder of old time and military surplus radios,

Andrash Bato, HA6NN, or “Andy” is coming up on his 50th anniversery as an amateur radio operator in Hungary, growing up in what is now the Former Soviet Union, or “FSU”. Andy is active at every level of amateur radio from his involvement in Hungary's national radio club and as a representative of Hungarian hams at the IARU. 

Clark Stewart, W8TN, started in amateur radio over 55 years ago, has worked every country but North Korea. He began working EME or moon bounce on two and six meters years ago making CW contacts.  Clark is the consummate amateur radio mentor and was awarded the outstanding West Virginia Amateur of the Year in 2015. W8TN is my QSO Today. 

Bob Logan, NZ5A, enjoys the simple pleasures of exploring new modes as well as mastering old modes, as well as ultra-low frequency bands. Bob is a collector and restorer of old ham radio gear and old broadcast radios. Bob reminds us that we hams are a com

Dino Papas, KL0S, leads the Williamsburg Area Amateur Radio Club in Williamsburg, Virginia, using the leadership skills that he acquired after 26 years in the US Army.  Dino is a frequent contributor to amateur radio magazines, including QST, offering his unique and needed perspective on our ham radio hobby. Along with his wife Toby, KL0SS, Dino provides a ham radio maker space in his garage to share his knowledge and resources with his fellow hams.

Rod Moag, W5NDS, interests in radio and electronics paralleled an interest in American Folk and country music leading to advanced degrees in Linguistics and South Asian languages.  Ham radio plays a solid role throughout this story as it weaves it way in and out of Rod’s professional career. Rod’s musical career and performances are one of the diamonds in this episode of QSO Today.

Howard Bernstein is the co-founder of the Long Island CW Club along with Rich Collins K2UPS,  where they train amateurs of every age to be CW operators over Zoom video conferencing. Howard has a long history in ham radio extending back over 50 years.  WB2UZE still has his first Drake line and is a collector of vintage things including old radios and automobiles. Howard is my QSO Today.

Bob Sumption, W9RAS, was raised on Popular Electronics and Popular Mechanics magazines, learned how to fix anything from his father, and became a ham radio operator in the 1950s.  Bob was an electronics technician at Heathkit who assembled the prototype SS9000 synthesized HF amateur radio transceiver. Now a collector of everything Heathkit, he has restored one of the three original Heathkit SS8000 HF transceivers that never made it to market. Bob is a consummate long term, big project builder and radio restorer, who shares his success, knowledge, expertise, and history in this QSO Today.

Sputnik and an uncle inspired George Allison, K1IG, to become a radio amateur. George had a long and successful US Navy career where radio was always the center of his activity including MARS stations, a visit to the South Pole, and the operation of very high powered VLF and ELF stations around the World. George promotes the Wordsworth method of raising CW speed above 40 words per minute.  K1IG is my QSO Today.

Jay Slough, K4ZLE, has over 60 years in the amateur radio hobby and still enjoys CW as his primary operating mode. An accomplished DXpeditioner, having operated in over 40 DX entities including South Sandwich Island. Always ready to extend the hand of friendship, either by knocking on the doors of houses with amateur antennas or sharing his own station through RemoteHams. K4ZLE is my QSO Today.

Dan Gravereaux, N1ZZ, began his ham radio story as a kid leading to a career in electronics, a stint at the CBS Labs working on quadraphonic sound, and later founding West Mountain Radio creators of the Rigblaster interfaces for HF digital modes.  West Mountain Radio also popularized the ubiquitous Anderson Power Poles that we all use now and love. N1ZZ shares his ham radio story and expertise in this QSO Today.

Ray Waldemar, WA6NVL, was an early adopter of electronic technology that found its way into amateur radio including the first Apple 1 computer, first instances of D-Star, and now DMR.  Active on HF, VHF, UHF, and Microwave, from SSB to satellites. Ray just likes it all to the technical challenge and the social connections made from almost 50 years in the hobby. WA6NVL is my QSO Today.

"Here's a tape I recorded in 1975 from a Heathkit ham radio. A few minutes on a reel-to-reel tape." - Tim Stamps.

In episode 33 of the QSO Today podcast, Dr. Greg Latta, AA8V, was described as a renaissance man, a master home-brewer who designs and builds the old tube rigs and fabricates the beautiful metal enclosures that encase them.  Greg is also a college physics professor who says that vacuum tubes are one of the best ways to provide to students a visual representation electrons in motion. We reprise and update this QSO with AA8V.

After running maritime mobile from his 40 foot sailboat for many years, Arnold Ziegel, W2HDI, switched to power boats and all of the challenges to amateur radio brought on by the new boat.  Not deterred by these challenges, W2HDI discovered remote control operation, over the Internet, from his new boat. We dive deeper into Arnold’s ham radio story and remote operation in this QSO Today.

Mike Bryce, WB8VGE, collects and restores the old Heathkit and Drake rigs that we remember from the 60s and 70s, works QRP on his favorite Ten-Tec transceivers, and has enough solar electric power to run everything.  WB8VGE shares the background of all of these things and his current view of the state of ham radio in this QSO Today.

"Innovate or vegetate." -- Mario Leone (Electronic Solutions Company) quoting the founder of Rowan University Mario Leone is a CEDIA volunteer who also works at Rowan University in New Jersey. One of the projects he worked on with the students? MemSat, a four-inch cube satellite launched in May as part of a NASA project. He talks about this and other projects that inform the knowledge he brings to his integration projects. Find more info here. Here's the class Mr. Leone will be teaching at CEDIA Expo 2018. (Also, remember Heathkit? We do!)  

In this, the 200th edition of the QSO Today podcast, the QSO Today is with Eric Guth, 4Z1UG, creator of the QSO Today Podcast as the guest and  is hosted by Jim Wilson, K5ND. In this interview, Eric tells his ham radio story, about his early exposure to electronics,his elmers, and how his amateur radio interest evolved to the QSO Today podcast. Eric answers listener questions at the end of the interview with Jim.

Dr. Jack Mandelman is on the short list for holding the most patents, over 700 Worldwide, in the area of semiconductor physics, while at the same time a successful ham radio operator working DX and CW.  Now in the middle of a QTH move, Jack is exploring satellite communications and DMR. K1VT shares his ham radio story and the period during the space race to the moon that led to the technology that we all enjoy in our QSO today.

Rick Karlquist, N6RK is a long time amateur radio operator who likes contests, DX, and over the years acquired a large square of property in California’s Central Valley to have enough room to build his antenna farm.  In this episode we discuss building 90 foot vertical antennas with irrigation pipe, and using the falling derrick method to raise  tall masts and towers.  Rick has acquired a wide range of experience from his amateur radio and professional life, some of which he shares in this QSO Today.

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, the Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Focusing a Wash, to LIGHT TALK Pot Roast! Join Steve, Stan, and David as they pontificate about the new Puzzler, The mystery of lighting up the neighborhood in purple, Area light focusing techniques, Training now vs. Training then... or, Teaching lighting technology in the dark ages, Living in a lake, B-Eye's color rendering, Matching the color temperature of LED's to incandescent sources, Rendering R-9, Rare Earth Phosphors, Improvised compromise, Reinventing the lighting design profession, Using moving lights as follow spots, Ground control systems, Auto-Pilot, Ken's kid, Heathkit strikes again!, Steve says: "Follow Me", No more 10 out of 12's, and Just Say No!  Nothing is Taboo, Nothing is Sacred, and Very Little Makes Sense.

Don Finch was an absoluteky great guy to speak wiyj about some of his experiences ovwe his time in the hobby.

Don Finch was an absoluteky great guy to speak wiyj about some of his experiences ovwe his time in the hobby.

Bob Rosier, K4OCE, started his ham radio journey in the fifties, inspired by his father who built their first family television using a surplus radar screen and a broadcast receiver.  Bob discovered QRP almost by accident and from that point on realized that he could have reliable DX contacts based on good operating practice and technical expertise. Bob is the creator of the “OCE Minirig” QRP transmitter.

My QSO this week is with Fred Regennitter, K4IU, has a rich ham radio history spanning over 50 years, from the first crystal radio receiver to his modern FlexRadio software defined transceiver. DX and contests are Fred’s interest and the new digital modes have won a new appeal for making contacts as we reach the bottom of the Sunspot cycle.  Amateur radio has expanded into a big tent that with many facets.  K4IU tells us why in this episode of QSO Today.

When Rick Dougherty NQ4I isn’t operating single sideband at 51 thousand feet in a Gulfstream jet, he may be preparing for the next big contest at this super multi-multi station in Griffin, Georgia.  A career jet pilot and ham radio contester, NQ4I shares his amateur radio story with Eric, 4Z1UG, in this QSO Today.

Amateur radio is a big tent with an appeal for every amateur’s special interest.  Once a QRO DX operator, the new magic of ham radio  for Don Minkoff NK6A, came from turning down the power to QRP levels and getting out of the QTH to the great outdoors and working SOTA, or Summits on the Air.  Don shares his ham radio story and so much more in this QSO Today.  

One of the major players in the “top band” , or 160 meters is Bob Garrett, K3UL, who as a blind ham has never let his visual impairment get in the way of his ham radio hobby.  I first learned about Bob from an article where he was described as working on his own towers and antennas to build a first class HF ham station.  Bob is a friend and mentor to many hams, with an open door policy.  Just knock.  K3UL is my QSO Today.

Richard Gillette, W9PE, is the consummate ham radio operator and mentor, IEEE speaker, and frequent contributor to our amateur radio hobby from his many articles in the ham radio magazines.  His own website, w9pe.us, is an amazing resource, including his Excel based test equipment simulator for anyone wanting to teach the fundamentals of ham radio in a one day or weekend “ham cram” course.   W9PE shares over 60 years of his ham radio experience in this QSO Today.

f you’ve walked past Adobe’s corporate headquarters in downtown San Jose, you may have spotted them: four big orange LED lights that look like flat-head screws, turning in apparently random patterns. This week’s Bay Curious question comes from listener Geoff Morgan, who wanted to know: What do the turning wheels on the top of the Adobe building mean? To start with, it helps to know Adobe makes computer software for people who work with words, pictures and sound. “At the core of our DNA, really, is art and technology,” says Siri Lackovic, the company’s senior brand strategist. That’s why you’ll find clever art installations all over their office towers. Siri is one of the two people on the planet who know the whole story behind the glowing orange orbs Geoff noticed. The other person, of course, is the guy who came up with the concept, New York artist Ben Rubin. “The hope is that someone would look up and say: ‘What is that?’ ” Ben says. “What is that thing trying to say, you know? What is its message?” The name of this installation is San Jose Semaphore. “Semaphore, by definition, is really a form of visual communication,” Siri explains. Way back when, the only way to communicate surreptitiously over a short distance — say, from land to a ship — would be to rely on flag bearers. “They would hold up the flag, and depending on the position of the flag, would let them know if it was safe to come in, or better to stay put,” she says. This resonates with Geoff, the KQED listener who asked the question. “I actually was in the Navy, and so I remember people communicating with flags, and it was always interesting to me because it looked very official, but a lot of times, they were talking about the latest baseball scores from ship to ship and things like that,” he says. In case you didn’t serve in the Navy, here’s an amusing set of dramas executed in semaphore by Monty Python. So, the short story on San Jose Semaphore is that it’s an art installation. The long story stretches back to artist Ben Rubin’s childhood in Boston during the 1970s. Back then, he owned a Heathkit shortwave radio. Sometimes, when he turned it on, he’d hear the strangest things. “These sort of clicks and beeps and mechanized announcements,” Ben says. “Who could not listen to an encrypted message and not wonder what it says, you know?” As NPR reported in a 2000 feature for the “Lost and Found Sound” series, these were numbers stations, shortwave radio broadcasts that historians believe transmitted messages to spies stationed around the world, starting in World War I. To the average listener, the letters, numbers and songs broadcast on the stations sound random. But if you have the key to decode the gobbledygook — it’s a message. Ben was fascinated by these numbers stations. So when it came time for college, he got a bachelor’s degree in computer science and semiotics, the study of signs and symbols. After graduation, he starting making art inspired by his studies. Now he makes media installations using technology, sound, images and physical structures — like the piece on the top of Adobe’s building in San Jose. Silicon Valley Loves A Challenge Each of these orange discs can assume four positions: horizontal, left-leaning diagonal, vertical, right-leaning diagonal. Four positions, plus four discs, means there are 256 possible combinations. Every 7.2 seconds, those wheels turn to a new configuration of sort of positions. Then they rest. “When they’re in that resting position,

Amateur radio was the early beginning for a career in radio for Art Bell, W6OBB, who became one of America’s number one late night talk show hosts.  Art's audience on Coast to Coast AM grew to 15 million listeners in over five-hundred markets. Art discusses ham radio and his broadcast radio career in this QSO Today with Eric, 4Z1UG.

Podcast Notes Parker is still working on the Super Simple Power Supply. He is designing the front panel. He is considering using some WP1043 Kingbright LEDs. Super Simple Power Supply will have two decimal places for the LED segmented displays. 10mV and 10mA display resolution. Keypad for punching in numbers directly and encoder for scrolling. The Rigol DP832 is the powersupply Parker and Stephen currently use. Has the funky keypad. ESP8266 is a low cost wifi module that has been in the maker space for the last couple years. IoT BBQ? Stephen thinks its getting silly. Parker thinks IoT is just going to advertisement saturation. Stephen did a guest lecture for the Iron Yard. It is a coding school. He gave a hardware based lecture. Covered the toolsets needed to design hardware like EDA Tools. Stephen pimped the MacroWatch. Josh the sound guy trumps Parker and Stephen in figuring out where .ino file extension comes from. Parker wrote a blog post about programming for production. Heathkit launches a new website. $150 AM Radio? It is not just a radio but a chore since it is a kit! At least it looks nice... Arduino and Raspberry Pi costs way less then any anything Heathkit offers. Stephen thinks Heathkit won't last long. Little Box Challenge winners where announced. The CE+T Power Red Electrical Devils blew the specs out of the water for the solar inverter. Parker went to mouser to see if he could buy the mythical transistors the CE+T Power Red Electrical Devils used in the inverter. Found some crazy big GaN transistors made by GaN Systems. Pricey but crazy awesome power transistor specs.

Bob Hopkins, WB2UDC, joins Eric, 4Z1UG, in this QSO Today about the importance of ham radio Elmers, especially in the lives of kids, and how to pay it forward to future generations of hams. Bob is an active elmer with kids through the New Jersey Boy Scouts of America as well as creating opportunities for kids to speak to astronauts first aboard the Space Shuttle and now to the International Space Station.

Listen along as David Greelish and Jeff Salzman discuss the Cromemco Z-1 and Heathkit H8 computers. We would like to thank Theo Karagiris and Mike Perigo for their detailed input and information.

Paul Schreiber has seen it all, from building his own Heathkit gear, to designing automotive stereo systems, to designing cell phones to creating modular synthesizer systems. I was, of course, mostly interested in the latter, but I was also interested in how modular systems were informed by his earlier experiences. In this interview, Paul shares how he learned electronics, how he designed the MOTM modular system, and also shares his advice for anyone interested in digging into it themselves. This is the first in a series of interviews informed by the forum citizens over at muffwiggler.com. Don't let the name freak you out; I'm sure it started out as some sort of inside joke, but it really is the main meeting place for all things modular.