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From: dave@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Dave Weintraub)
Subject: Re: Tapes of 'alternative' speakers wanted 
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:54:10 GMT

If you are interested in *historical* material, you might examine
the Harrison B Cardiff Collection 
at the Rodgers & Hammerstein (?sp (I really should know, by now))
Library at Lincoln Center.  "Bob" Cardiff spent his last 40 years
(the 30s, through mid-70s) building a collection of tapes of the spoken word,
collected off of all of the New York-vicinity stations;
the collection is beautifully cross-indexed.
 
---- 
dave

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From: sford@arrl.org (Steve Ford)
Subject: Re: Call Letter Meanings
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:27:01 GMT

Just curious, who is your PD? I worked at WTUE from the late 70's
through the early 80's (on the air). I've lost track of many of
my compatriots, but it looks as though one ended up as a PD
in Indiana. (?)

Steve

ARRL


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From: adam@wam.umd.edu (Adam L. Greenberg)
Subject: Re: SCA Data Equipment?
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 22:45:53 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.220814.28786@gagme.chi.il.us> adam@wam.umd.edu (Adam L. Greenberg) writes:
>Anyone know where to get a CHEAP SCA walkman-type receiver?  My campus
>AM station (carrier current) is piggybacked onto the FM signal...and I'd like
>to pick up the AM station around campus if I could.  Or even use the receiver
>as a talkback or monitor when we're doing live remotes (yes, we do them
>even on a carrier-current station).  PLEASE e-mail adam@wam.umd.edu if you
>know anything.
>
>[Moderator's Note:  Contact your local 'reading service for the blind' which
>uses SCA on a local Public station.  They will have info on where to buy a
>wide variety of SCA receivers.  They are not real cheap, though.]


I was told I could get one somewhere for $20.  Anyone know?

--Adam L. Greenberg
  The Gary Allen Show
  AM 65 WMUC



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From: ornitz@kodak.kodak.com (Barry Ornitz)
Subject: Re: "Part 15" 
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Eastman Chemical Company Research Labs
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:54:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.224516.23150@gagme.chi.il.us> 
hhallika@nike.calpoly.edu (Harold Hallikainen) writes:

>	Part 15 covers unintentional radiators (where the chief purpose
>of RF is something other than transmitting RF, such as computers,
>RF heaters, etc.) and intentional radiators (which include low power
>communications devices, such as wireless microphones, cordless phones,
>garage door openers, etc.).  
>	15.162 permits witeless microphones in the FM broadcast band.
>It requires emissions to be within a 200 KHz channel, just as FM broadcast.
>Field strength is limited to 500 uV/M at 15 meters from the device.
                              ^^^  Was 50 in 1986, probably a typo
.....
{Lots deletes}
.....

I hope this does not sound like sour grapes but Harold should buy a new copy
of the rules.  The ones he quotes are identical to my copy of the 1986 rules.
The ones I used to write my post on this subject are the October 1991 R&R's.
I believe they are current, but I have not had a chance to call our legal
library today.  There are SIGNIFICANT differences between the new rules and
the old ones.
				Barry L. Ornitz     ornitz@kodak.com

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From: wa2ise@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (robert.f.casey) 
Subject: Call-Letters From Hell!
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs 
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:25:32 GMT

Several articles on Call letter meanings have appeared.  I remember a
station in the Syracuse area: WFBL on the AM dial, back in 1978.
I don't think the letters stand for anything, and they don't seem
easy for a DJ to say.  Seems like a random assignment. 

Any other "Callsigns from Hell"?

[Moderator's Note:  How about WNMP (the announcers always sounded like they
were saying W-one-emm-pee.]
Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: adam@wam.umd.edu (Adam L. Greenberg)
Subject: Re: Call Letter Meanings
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 22:40:04 GMT


In article <1992Aug21.200309.11997@gagme.chi.il.us> wdp@airwaves.chi.il.us
(William Pfeiffer) writes:

>In Milwaukee, there is WTMJ - The Milwaukee Journal.  How about some others?]

I believe that our AM carrier-current station, WMUC, used to go by Maryland's
University Connection...but the FM alternative WMUC-FM never used that
slogan.  (The AM station's format is CHR).

--Adam L. Greenberg, Executive Producer
  The Gary Allen Show (wanna give me a job?)
  WMUC AM 65


Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: Will Martin <wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Query about "syndicated" programs
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Army
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:27:21 GMT

A not-quite-local broadcaster, WSIE FM in Edwardsville, Illinois, carries
two hour-long "international" musical programs on Sunday afternoons:
Afro-Pop Worldwide at noon, and The Brazilian Hour at 1 PM.  I listen
to these every week, but I've never seen any print reference to them, so
I was wondering if anyone on the list has printed reference material 
that can give me the spelling of the hosts' names.

Afro-Pop Worldwide is hosted by someone whose name I interpret as:

George or Josh Coulinee'  (with the accent over the last "e");

The way he pronounces his first name makes it seem to be "George" one
week and "Josh" another week, so I am continually changing my mind about
that. 

The Brazilian Hour is hosted by a Brazilian who seems to have a Russian
name:

Sergio Miyamashenko  (or "shemko").

If anyone can tell me the actual real spelling of these peoples' names,
I'd appreciate it!

As a side question, just how are programs like these referred to in the
industry?  Are they "syndicated", like TV programs?  Or what?  They appear
to be independently-produced programs, made available to radio stations in
some fashion, but I don't know if they are free to the station or the
station pays for them or what.  They are aired here on a public-radio
station, and they do not contain commercials, so I have no idea how
Afro-Pop is supported financially; the closing announcement on the
Brazilian Hour gives credit to a Brazilian government ministry (Cultural
Affairs or External Relations or something like that) for their support, so
I suppose it is provided free to radio stations in the same way that
Deutsche Welle and Radio Nederland used to (and maybe still do?) send out
tapes to radio stations of free programming as a method of promoting their
countries' images. But Afro-Pop doesn't have any single-government
tie-in -- their coverage ranges all over Africa, and also includes
African-derived music in Latin America. I have no idea who pays for
their airfares and recording-studio time...

I do recommend both these programs to anyone who is looking for
programming for a radio station and who wants to broadcast a wide
variety of good music and expand their listeners' horizons beyond the
ordinary and indifferent-quality music found on 99% of US radio stations.
The Brazilian Hour is always delightful, and, while Afro-Pop is quite
variable, with some shows better than others, it is still better than 
any other non-classical music programming on any commercial radio station.

Does anyone out there know of other similar types of programs? If there
are some, I'll write WSIE and suggest they begin to carry those, too.
Please include all available details if you can, so I can give the
station all the info they'll need.

Regards, Will
wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil OR wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil

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From: norris@athena.mit.edu (Richard A Chonak)
Subject: FCC vetoes AM-AM simulcast
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:54:25 GMT

There's an article in the current Boston Business Journal about a proposed
simulcast arrangement between two AM stations here, but it appears that
the FCC has refused permission for the deal.

Daytime-only urban-contemporary station WILD (1090) reached an agreement to
simulcast with 24-hour station WMEX (1150), hoping to "double" WILD's
salable ad time, and expected that the new FCC simulcast rules would allow 
the arrangement.  Washington turned down the plan, saying that a simulcast
by two stations on the same band (AM) was contrary to the anti-monopolistic
intent of the policy.  Interestingly, WMEX already is simulcasting its FM 
counterpart, WMJX (106.7).

---
Also, the defunct call letters of easy-listening WJIB-FM, a long-time fixture
of Boston radio (now "smooth-jazz" WCDJ), have been revived for an AM station 
in Cambridge.  WJIB-AM (740) has changed identities several times in the past
few years: from folkie WCAS, it became WLVG ("We love gospel" music), and then
adopted the label "Earth Radio" and played an eclectic mix of oldies along with
a lot of preachy environmental PSAs.  Accordingly (I suppose), the GM refused 
to use a car when making sales calls.  Now 740 is WJIB, and it's trying to 
tap into memories of the easy-listening FM's style, including its 
characteristic surf-and-seagulls at ID time.  (I'm told they don't "ring" 
the trademark ship's bells yet! :)  )

--RC


Maybe Scott Fybush can give us some more info?



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From: prmount@attmail.att.com (Paul R Mount)
Subject: Good words about the Superadio III
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:54:55 GMT

>From the August 1992 "FMedia!" by Bruce Elving, PhD, Publisher *

"Al Germond mentions that GE is discontinuing the Superadio II, but it
is being replaced by the Superadio III this month - a model sporting
a more black front and an AM narrow-wide switch, though lacking
coverage of the expanded 1600-1700 AM band.  "Let me state unequivo-
cably that the Superaio II is without doubt the finest AM-FM
portable ever produced in the general entertainment class of set.
Of course, there are sophisticated battery-operated communications sets
(but surprise, the GE runs circles around the multi-hundred dollar Sony
all-wave units!).  And some discounters were offering the GE for under
$45.   The AM section in the GE is almost as senstivie as a $2000
lab-grade field intensity meter used by AM station engineers for criti-
cal measurements...Lets sound off on the atrocious quality of radios
for sale in all the stores today.  Go to Wal-Mart, Target, etc and
try  'em out.  Look for the big names and see how they've slipped.
The Japanese who have been so hyperelevated in our minds for
'quality' are sending us junk." "

PRM: Al Germond is a reader of Bruce Elvings FMedia.  I dont know if
he works for GE or just got a prototype of the SR III.

*Free plug for having quoted without permission:
FMedia is published monthly, subscription price $65 annual, single
copies $5.95.  FMedia ia a newsletter of fact and opinion about FM
radio and related technologies from the publisher of the FM Atlas
(his words). 
Write Publishing Estate, 241  Anderson Road, Esko MN 55733-9413.
For people who want SCA put in their FM radios, he's your man.
I believe he does sensitivity mods for FM as well (putting in
sharper filters.)


[Moderator's Note:  Please, when quoting articles and such, do not *inform*
me that you are doing so without permission.   I have received e-mail to the
effect that if I publish something 'knowing' that it is reprinted without
permission, I am an accessory to copyright infringement, if any.  From now
on, I will have to adopt a position of not publishing any articles which 
say specifically that any part of it is reprinted without permission. Thanks.]

Paul Mount, Monmouth NJ

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From: WEOS-FM <BLACK%HWS1%HWS.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: More Call letters and __Help__???
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: WEOS radio
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:43:57 GMT

More Call letters.........
WEOS(FM) Geneva  ECHO OF THE SENECA   Refers to the drumming sounds on Seneca
                                      Lake as well as geographic location.

WFLR     Dundee  FingerLakes Radio
WGVA     Geneva  Geneva
WSFW     Seneca Falls           Seneca Falls, Waterloo
WSYR     Syracuse               Syracuse Radio
WASB     Brockport              Albion, Brockport, Spencerport
WRUR     Rochester              Radio of University of Rochester
WNYR     Waterloo               "The Winner" Western New York  This call sign
              used to be used in Rochester at 680 Am before the moved to 990
              which is now WRMM
WICB     Ithaca                 Ithaca Collge Broadcasting


Also, I lost the Radio World Issue that had info about getting access to
internet through Case Western University. Can anyone provide that information
to me? You don't have to post it on the list. A private message is fine.
Thanks.

==================================================================
|    W       W   EEEEEEE    OOOO      SSSSS                      |
|    W       W   E         O    O    SS          Geneva, NY      |
|    W   W   W   EEEEE    O      O     SSS      __  __   ___     |
|     W W W W    E         O    O         SS   (__)(__)    /     |
|      W   W     EEEEEEE    OOOO      SSSSS    (__)  / () / FM   |
|                                                                |
|                Hobart and William Smith Colleges               |
|      Public Radio for The Finger Lakes, New Music, & More!     |
==================================================================
|Michael R. Black               |BITNET:    BLACK%HWS1@HWS       |
|General Manager, WEOS-FM       |INTERNET:  BLACK%HWS1@HWS.BITNET|
|Hobart & William Smith Colleges|PHONE:     315-781-3456         |
|Geneva, New York  14456-3397   |FAX:       315-781-3916         |
==================================================================

eek eek

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From: hhallika@nike.calpoly.edu (Harold Hallikainen)
Subject: Re: "Part 15"
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 22:45:16 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.220649.28684@gagme.chi.il.us> yag@eng.umd.edu (Eric
Funk) writes: 
>Does anyone know where the infamous "Part 15" of FCC rules and regs can be
>found? 


	All the FCC rules can be found at many public libraries.  Look
for the Code of Federal Regulations.  FCC rules are in volume 47, so
part 15 is 47CFR15...

>Part 15 describes rules regarding unlicensed, low power emissions. It
>allows operation of ``Mr. Microphone'' as well as wireless telephones etc.
>I understand that FM broadcast band emissions were recently included. I also
>believe the 100 mW power limit is on INPUT power to the final stage RF amp.
>Can anyone verify this?
	
	Part 15 covers unintentional radiators (where the chief purpose
of RF is something other than transmitting RF, such as computers,
RF heaters, etc.) and intentional radiators (which include low power
communications devices, such as wireless microphones, cordless phones,
garage door openers, etc.).  
	15.162 permits witeless microphones in the FM broadcast band.
It requires emissions to be within a 200 KHz channel, just as FM broadcast.
Field strength is limited to 500 uV/M at 15 meters from the device.
	15.163 requires FM wireless microphones to be FCC certified by
the manufacturer.  There is no provision to build your own.
	15.171 allows telemetering devices between 38 and 41 MHz.  The
allowed filed strength is 10 uV/M at 15 meters from the device.  Telemetering
devices are also allowed in the FM band with field limited to 50 uV/M at 
15 meters.
	15.111 allows low power communications devices between 10 and 490 KHz
and 510 and 1600 KHz.  Measured at 300 meters, the maximum allowed field
strength is 2400/(f KHz) uV/M.  As an alternative, between 160 and 190 KHz,
the input power to the final RF stage must be limited to 1 watt, emissions
outside 160 to 190 KHz are suppressed 20 dB and the total transmission line and
antenna length is 15 meters or less.
	15.113 allows 100 mW input power and a 3 meter antenna/transmission
line between 510 KHz and 1600 KHz.  Leakage into the power line is limited
to 200 microvolts.  

	There is lots of other info there, but I hope the above answers
most of the questions.

Harold

--
[Moderator's Note:  Thanks, Harold, for your ever present assistance whenever
rule clarifications are concerned.  Harold is published regularily in
Radio-World Magazine.]


Harold Hallikainen              ap621@Cleveland.Freenet.edu
Hallikainen & Friends, Inc.     hhallika@pan.calpoly.edu
141 Suburban Road, Bldg E4      phone 805 541 0200 fax 544 6715
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-7590  telex 4932775 HFI UI




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From: kramerbr@ucunix.san.uc.EDU (Brian Robert Kramer)
Subject: Re: FCC vetoes AM-AM simulcast
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:27:52 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.235425.27900@gagme.chi.il.us> norris@athena.mit.edu
(Richard A Chonak) writes:
>There's an article in the current Boston Business Journal about a proposed
>simulcast arrangement between two AM stations here, but it appears that
>the FCC has refused permission for the deal.

Uh-oh.  Someone had better tell this to two AMs in Springfield.  WIZE and
another station (I forget the calls off hand), are now in the process of
moving together, and I assume that they planned on simulcasting.  The
air studios were scheduled to be combined by the end of August.


-- 
Some of it's magic, and some of it's tragic,
But I've had a good life all the way. 

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From: CARRUTHERS@BrandonU.CA (Kai'ckul)
Subject: Cost of 10 watt FM xmitter
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:55:48 GMT

It looks like we have the go-ahead from the CRTC to start work on setting
up our station to broadcast to the community instead of just over the PA
system oncampus.  I have to ask, now....

- What would be a reasonable cost for a new 10 watt FM mono transmitter?
  Used?

If anyone has any information on prices and where to get ahold of such a
transmitter, please email me.  

Mucho thanks!

Sean

Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: jim@jimmc.chi.il.us (Jim McNicholas)
Subject: URGENT: Bush hasn't signed National Public Radio refinance bill yet 
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Prime Time Productions Aurora, Illinois
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:52:35 GMT

hgp@neural.att.com (Howard G Page) writes:

> Did you know that Bush hasn't signed the reauthorization
> for National Public Radio (Corporation for Public
> Broadcasting?) yet? And if he doesn't by Friday (8/28), as
> I understand it, it'll die via a pocket veto.
> 
> You can help !!
> === === ===  ==
> 
> Call the White House at +1 202 456-1111 and tell them that
> Bush must sign HR 2977, the Public Telecommunications Act.
> 
> Howard G. Page

Excuse me for butting in but If it does die it'll just have to run 
commercials like the rest of us and there won't be anymore pledge drives, 
and maybe the playing field will be level. the programs get funding throught 
the national endowment for the arts so they won't die just the 
beaurocracy (sic) of public radio!!  God my spelling gotta go to bed now!!!
jim

Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: CK3 <ckukkone@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Subject: Time window for broadcasting cussing?
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:56:08 GMT

What is the standard time for allowing cussing over the air?
At my station, we start at midnight and play disclaimers
once an hour.  What is the official FCC ruling on this?
or are they still with the vague description that young
kids can't hear the show.

Thanks

Carl

Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: bellcore!gizmo.bellcore.com!mo@uunet.UU.NET (Michael O'Dell )
Subject: Re: Simulcasts 
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Center for Chaotic Repeatabilty
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 22:46:04 GMT


Anyone remember AM/FM Stereo simulcasts??

For a while in the early 60s KRLD-AM and KRLD-FM  (from Dallas)
would do 2 hours of AM/FM stereo on Sundays at Noon - Sunday Dinner
in Stereo then called it (or something close).  We didn't have the
radios very close, in fact, the AM radio was in the front of the house,
and the FM radio was in the rear connected to the CATV feed, and I'd
turn up both of them pretty loud and we'd all sit in the kitchen
trying to figure out what the Big Deal was all about.  Great sense
of "doing something interesting", but as we'd say today, "the image
was diffuse and with no strong sense of localization."

Not entirely clear on the concept, I guess.

	-Mike

Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: lear@yeager.corp.sgi.com (Eliot Lear)
Subject: Re: URGENT Bush hasnt signed National Public Radio refinance bill yet
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:23:02 GMT

In <1992Aug30.235318.27796@gagme.chi.il.us> wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) writes:
>Then again, there are those of us who refer to NPR as 
>"Radio Socialiste Nationale" and who would be most if 
>our taxpayer dollars were no longer funnelled to that institution.

This coming from a person who has no problem having the federal
government subsidize *his* views.

--
Eliot Lear
[lear@sgi.com]




Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: boisvert@guardian.WPI.EDU (Brian Richard Boisvert)
Subject: Address for National Public Radio?
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:54:15 GMT

	Can anyone please email me the address for national public radio?  And
does anyone know if I can order old radio shows from them?  If not, is there
any mail order company that has copies of these for sale.  Thank you.

--Brian R. Boisvert
boisvert@wpi.wpi.edu

-- 
{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}         WPI Students:               |            Brian R. Boisvert           
   Procrastination with a touch      |     Worcester Polytechnic Institute  
          of genius.                 |           boisvert@wpi.wpi.edu



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From: lgold@callahans.Cadence.COM (Lynn Gold)
Subject: Re: San Fran Dance/Top 40 
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: /mnt4/lgold/.organization
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:27:36 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.200452.12134@gagme.chi.il.us> deh10@quts.ccc.amdahl.com
(David Hygh) writes:

>lightw@cetra.trl.OZ.AU (Liron Lightwood) writes:

>>Just out of interest, how many Top 40 type hit muisc stations that play
>>pop and dance music are there in the bay area?  I would be interested in
>>the comparison.

>According to RADIR, a database of radio stations, there are 2 Top 40
>stations in the bay area.  KMEL 106.1 FM, San Francisco & KHQT 97.7 FM,
>San Jose.

KMEL and KHQT are both "Urban Contemporary."  A quick listen to them
and all one hears is rap, rap, R&B/dance, rap, and rap.  If it doesn't
fit those categories, you won't hear it on those stations.

--Lynn
--


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