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From: fybush@unixland.natick.ma.us (Scott Fybush)
Subject: Super Radio III Review
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:16:49 GMT

Well, I just bought my SR3 ($44.95 at Lechmere in Framingham MA).  It's been
sitting next to my SR2 for a day or so, so it's time for some initial
thoughts...

*Get a good look at the box.  Obviously some changes were made between the
radio prototype pictured on the box and the product inside.  The box shows
the VHF whip in the same style as on the SR2...a fat one with a black plastic
tube over the outermost section...a bit more durable, I think, than the
production version, which is a standard metal whip.  No wonder the
manual makes a big deal out of how easy the whip is to replace if it
breaks :-).  The dial on the box is different.  It shows a 15-number log
dial, rather than 10 on the real SR3 (and on the 2)...and some of the
wording is different.

*The SR2 seemed more solid.  The case of my SR3 is already scratched
in one place, while my 8-month-old SR2 looks brand new.  The dials feel
about equally solid, and I do like the side-mounted tuning dial on the
SR3 better than the front-mounted SR2 version.  The handle on the SR2
seems more solid.  

*I like the wide filter on the SR3.  STRONG local signals like WBZ
sound better on the SR3 than on any other AM radio I have ever listened
to, including the SR2.  Weaker signals don't benefit from the wide
filter, especially in an area like Boston where the AM dial is packed
tightly with stations.

I'd still like to see a true narrow filter to clean up audio on
weak DX.

*The dial on the SR2 (a clear piece of plastic with a red line 
serving as an indicator in front of a slide-rule dial) is easier
to read than the SR3 version (a red piece of plastic with a black
line, which appears in two slots behind the slide-rule dial).  Of
course, the tuning indicator is so inaccurate that it doesn't really
matter.

*Quality control remains variable.  My first SR2 was so inaccurate 
on FM that I couldn't tune it below 88.1.  My second had too much
tuning slop.  My first SR3 seems to be perfect.

On the whole, I like the SR3 and would recommend it unreservedly to
anyone who didn't get an SR2.  I'd also recommend that anyone with
an SR2 get an SR3 as well, if for no other reason than for the
wide filter and the expanded AM band.  As for me, I'm keeping both.
Anyone have an SR1 so I can complete my set :-)?

Oh yes...performance.  Unlike those who've noticed their SR2's performing
better than their SR3's, mine are essentially identical in performance.
Of course, I haven't had much time to do serious DXing of late, so
that opinion is still subject to change.

Scott Fybush -- fybush@unixland.natick.ma.us

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From: jim@jimmc.chi.il.us (Jim McNicholas)
Subject: Re: Commercials and listener station hopping
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Prime Time Productions Aurora, Illinois
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 07:24:44 GMT

blair@obdient.chi.il.us (pri=-10-Doug Blair) writes:

>In article <1992Sep18.215331.25108@gagme.chi.il.us> rfc@aloft.att.com (Bob
>Casey) writes:
>>If I was an advertiser, I might find it worth my while to demand to be the
>>first commercial in a block, and get my product name stated at the beginning

[...]

> 
>>[Moderaotr's Note:  Yes, but what if EVERY advertiser wanted to be first (an
>>who wouldn't?) ?   
> 
> -- 
> Doug


Doug I have to disagree with you there we charge nothing to go first and 
we won't place a spot first, on that we agree, but we play the promo 
first right out of music ... I do most of the promo's so they're all 
kick-ass. Then the next highest but we hide the least musically 
interesting in the middle and end with a good beer spot or concert spot 
hit the jingle and back into the music, so think of a bell curve, turn it 
upside down and that's the FLOW of the sets!  Seems to work out here in 
the boonies..er..ah..'burbs!!


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From: mci41087@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Occaisionally)
Subject: Re: **SUMMARY** Call Letter Meanings
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:48:06 GMT

... And New Trier Township High School had WNTH, 88.1 FM.  A whopping 100
watts of flamethrowing........variety?

Matt Ivaliotes - former WNTH d.j.


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From: mrsmart@cs1.bradley.edu (Robert Knautz)
Subject: Paul Harvey
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Bradley University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:03:08 GMT

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the text of Paul Harvey's
speech to the National Radio and Television News Directors conference
on Saturday night?  I saw it on C-Span II last night and I would like
to have a copy for a paper I am writing.
--
     Rob Knautz    Accounting God    Bradley University, Peoria, Ill.
	mrsmart@cs1.bradley.edu     rknautz@heartland.bradley.edu
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From: unkaphaed!phaedrus\@uunet.UU.NET (James Hartman, Sysop)
Subject: Re: Optimum broadcast band DX
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organizationafba: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy
Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:54:03 GMT


higgins%tiss.decnet\@mdcgwy.mdc.com (TISS: :HIGGINS) writes:

> For those (particularly in the midwest) who may be interested in
> pursuing this, here are some selected catches ACTUALLY HEARD
> during this time frame from the Chicago area, denoted by I, or
> the Saint Louis area, denoted by M.
> 
> freq call mm dd year time (CDT) state city    loc comments in logbook
> 
>  700 KSEV 09 29 1991 1940 TX Tomball         M way o/WLW, "Talkradio 700" ID

I'm really impressed! I have a lot of trouble picking up KSEV here in Houston,
and we're SUPPOSED to get it...  :=)

[Moderator's Note:  He said he 'received' KSEV, He never said that he 'got' it
:-) :-). There is a lot of radio that I can receive, and still not 'get' :-)]

--
phaedrus\@unkaphaed.UUCP (da sysop)
"They say travel broadens the mind/so I went over the falls in a barrel
I found the north pole/in a field of ice/and in a land of dreams/I found you."
--T. Dolby (I Live in a Suitcase)

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From: philg@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Philip Greenspun)
Subject: TAPE TAX passed by Congress
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 07:38:58 GMT


The Audio Home Recording Act of 1991 (HR-3204) was passed this week in
the House under "suspension" rules, a procedure whereby there is no
debate and no record is kept of the votes.  Since the House and Senate
versions are a bit different, the bill moves to a conference committee
and then to the President.

The only thing to do is to remind George Bush that you voted for him
(even if you didn't) because of his "no new taxes" pledge.  Tell him
that he has to veto this new tax or you'll vote for the Democrats (at
least they are honest about their taxation agenda) or even
Libertarians.

There are two ways to reach George:

Call the White House Comment Office at (202) 456-1111, although this
line is usually busy.

Write to President George Bush, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20500.

I think a quick handwritten note is more than good enough.  I'm sure
someone just adds up the weight of the mail against a bill and reports
the total number of pounds received.

Philip Greenspun
MIT Department of EECS

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From: bst@wang.com (Bruce Tannenbaum)
Subject: Re: looking for top 40 lists from the 80's
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:08:28 GMT

rcnelson@icaen.uiowa.edu (Ryan Christian Nelson) writes:

>Can anyone tell me if there's a site out there that has old (circa 1985)
>top 40 music charts (R&r, or billboard, or whatever)?  I'm doing research
>for a radio show that dredges up 80's classics.

>I'd also love to know if there's any hardcopys of stuff like this. (i'm
>looking for week to week stuff, rather than the easily found top 40 songs of
>1987 kind of stuff)

Well, I used to save all my old Billboards, but after the ants got intio them,
I had to discard them.  Joel Whitburn's Record Research (hire me , Joel!) of
Menomenee Falls, WI, publishes all sorts of chart books.  Recently, they
released the book containing the weekly Hot 100 charts for every week in
the Eighties.  Maybe somebody else can give you the address/phone number.

>Falco lives... eh, commisar?
 
Da.

--Bruce (Out of broadcasting for 16 years now.)

-- 
Bruce S. Tannenbaum (RADAR) <bst@wang.com>
VoiceCom Systems Inc., San Francisco, CA and Tewksbury, MA.
"I have a cunning plan!"

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From: watson@wink.corp.sgi.com (David M. Watson, Jr.)
Subject: Re: More Call Letters and Rumor Control
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:43:52 GMT

Scott Fybush writes:

>
> WVBF-FM Presumably Voice of Boston and Framingham...
>

A friend of mine at school in 1972 claimed his parents owned several
stations around the country, and originally named them after members of
the family.  Knowing other things about him, I was inclined to believe
him at the time, but you may know enough to prove or disprove his story.
WVBF was one such station.  My friend's mother's full name was Virginia
Brown Fairbanks and I believe his father's company was the Fairbanks
Broadcasting Company.

After all these years, I'd be interested to know whether his story
checks out.

 -David.




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From: Brian.K.Sward@dartmouth.edu (Brian K. Sward)
Subject: Re: Compiling list of station positioners
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 07:36:43 GMT

Add to the list the two Dartmouth stations

"The only rock in town"/"The Home of rock and roll"
--WFRD Hanover, NH (99.3)

"Your best alternative" -- WDCR Hanover, NH (1340)

Brian Sward
brian.sward@dartmouth.edu

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From: jim@jimmc.chi.il.us (Jim McNicholas)
Subject: Re: KIIS-FM
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Prime Time Productions Aurora, Illinois
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 07:26:02 GMT

prmount@attmail.att.com (Paul R Mount) writes:

> <Description of KIIS-FM dusting off 80's tunes>
> 
> I don't care how much I liked the song when it was current,
> I don't care how big of a hit it was,
> I don't ever need to hear "Every Breath You Take" ever again.
> 
> Surely it's on the list offfered by a music service in MA, "the 100 safest
> oldies".  Sick, isn't it? 
> 
> Yes, there are more people 25-54.  Yes they have more money.
> No, every station should not try to hit only 25-54.
> 
> Top 40 was about dead in 1981.  It's starting to happen again.
> Mike Joseph where are you?
> 
> [Moderator's Note:  Yes I, too, am sick of predictable, sanitized oldies and
> so-called 'classic' hits.  I have no problem with playing music of past days,
> but there are so many many songs that are NEVER played.  Every once in a
> while they play a 'lost hit' that is not in the '100 safest' list. I
> immediately get riveted back to the time it was a hit.  But such
> predictability is not limited to oldies, it is everywhere.  I miss radio.] 

I also miss radio and we have a whole category of WOW songs, WILDFLOWER 
by skylark!!  Remember that one!
sure is fun to here them once in a while though which is all you'll hear 
em after they play they rest for almost a week before they play again and 
they gotta play in all dayparts before it comes back to the original 
daypart!


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From: richard@harlqn.co.uk (Richard Brooksby)
Subject: The end of BBC Radio 4 LW
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Harlequin Limited, Cambridge, England
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 07:23:11 GMT

The BBC are planning to take discontinue broadcasting of Radio 4 on
the 198m LW wavelength and replace it with `Radio 6', a 24-hour `news'
service (though many suspect it will be 90% speculation).  The BBC
have received thousands of letters of complaint, from Britain and
abroad, and ignored them all.  The person responsible for the plan
this morning refused to take part in the BBC's own `Feedback' program
in order to explain himself.

If you care about receiving Radio 4 when in cars, remote places, or
abroad then please write, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, to:

  Save Radio 4 Long Wave
  52 Kingsgate Street
  Winchester
  United Kingdom

You might also write to Feedback, although the series has just ended:

  Feedback
  BBC Broadcasting House
  London W1A 1AA

Please distribute this message to anyone who might care.

Thank you.

Distribution so far: USENET, Harlequin
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From: barry@jab.tucson.az.us (Barry Mishkind)
Subject: Re: KFI talker
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Just Another Bbs. Tucson, AZ
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:00:03 GMT


According to CNN, Tom Leykis was dumped from KFI in favor of Dan Gates.

Talk about a format switch!


==================================================================
Barry Mishkind
barry@jab.tucson.az.us

 
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From: newsq@ampex.com (Stan Busby)
Subject: Listening to radio the hard way...or more jolt for the volt
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Ampex
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:47:39 GMT

When I was about freshman age in high school, I had a older
cousin who took a typing class in high school.  She gave me her
discarded book, which about 8 1/2 by 14 inches and had a heavy
cardboard front and back cover.  I excised the covers.
 
I used six #6/32 screws from my Erector Set, along with six of
those cheap square nuts, drilled six holes and bolted the two
pieces of cardboard together.  I then used a keyhole saw to open
four holes the size of tube sockets.
 
On this breadboard I built a TRF (Tuned radio frequency)
receiver.  It used three # 27 tetrode tubes (the brand name was
Cunningham).  These tubes had a cathode sleeve and a 2.5 volt
cathode heater, which was supplied by my Lionel model train
transformer.  This had a sliding contactor which engaged taps on
the transformer to vary the train's speed.  Not having a
voltmeter, I adjusted it so that the tubes glowed somewhere
between a very dull red and an an alarming yellow.  The anode
voltage was supplied by a 90 volt battery, popular at the time
among those farm folks who relied upon battery power for radio. 
There was a grid bias battery, but I forget its voltage.  The
output stage (# 47?) was another tetrode, with the output taken
directly from the anode, through a D.C. blocking condenser (it is
a capacitor nowadays), and applied to a pair of Cannonball
earphones, the ones with the threaded studs sticking out of each
earpiece, onto which were connected the audio feed from said
anode.
 
The inductors (coils) were wound with DCC (Double cotton covered)
wire onto discarded toilet paper rolls, with the beginning and
end points secured with Testor's model airplane glue, the stuff
that kids later learned how to bend their mind by sniffing it. 
The prime item was a triple-gang tuning capacitor so that the
radio didn't need to look like an early Atwater-Kent with its
separate tuning knob for each RF amplifier stage.
 
Anyway, each night when I went to bed, I would listen to one of
the various dance bands available on the network (I seem to
remember the "pump room" in a Chicago hotel which was on
regularly).  I would turn it off after a while and sleep.
 
Well, one night I dozed off before turning off the receiver. 
During the night the headphones became dislodged and, after
sign-off, I rolled over onto them, such that the studs on the
back of the earphones were pressed into my inert back.  At 05:45
hours AM in the morning, an announcer opened his mike switch and
said "GOOD MORNING".  I did not HEAR "good morning", but every
little neuron and synapse or whatever was screaming at my brain,
saying, electrically, "GOOD MORNING".  I came out of bed like a
rocket.  From this I learned two things....you can be
communicated with while asleep, or at least during the transition
between sleep and panic, and you can do it without aural input. 
It was weird.
 

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From: rfa@Turing.ORG (Robert F. Alexander)
Subject: Re: WLUP shuffles superstars, Howard Stern to join.
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:08:27 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.073836.1308@gagme.chi.il.us> blair@obdient.chi.il.us
(pri=-10-Doug Blair) writes:
>The reason that WLUP is putting Howard Stearn on their AM should be
>obvious: they own the station.  
>
>====> No matter who is doing mornings on WLUP the station will lose
>	some listeners to Howard Stearn.
>====> If Howard is on some other station then WLUP will lose listeners
>	to the other station.

>Doug

And it's entirely possible that the station that puts Howard
on the air might lose some audience due to the fact that
alot of folks can't stand the jerk..

^^^^^^^
My opinion..

Robert
g
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rfa@turing.ORG    ( KD4QBD )         /      BROADCAST ENGINEER
(804) 296-7697  Hm                   /      WCHV         WWWVV
(804) 977-5566  Wk                   /      Oldies   AlbumRock 

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From: Steve Bacher <seb@draper.com>
Subject: Re: Call Letter Meanings
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: __
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 07:23:59 GMT


>>From: mjones@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Mike Jones)
>>Organization: IBM Corp. Kingston NY
>
>In/around Albany, NY:
>
>WRGB - first color TV broadcaster, but it doesn't stand for
>  "red-green-blue"! RGB was the initials of the VP of the division of GE
>  that controlled broadcasting when the license was granted.

The VP's name wouldn't by any chance be Roy G. Biv, would it?   :-)

>In/around Ft. Lauderdale/Miami:
>WCIX - channel 6

Or channel 109?  :-)

>WLVI - channel 56 (Roman numerals)

Hey - that's a Boston TV station.  The above must be obsolete.
Since Boston's Channel 56 was had those call letters for less
than a decade, though, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd been
used elsewhere before.


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From: barry@jab.tucson.az.us (Barry Mishkind)
Subject: Re: KFI talker
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Just Another Bbs. Tucson, AZ
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 06:09:25 GMT

barry@jab.tucson.az.us (Barry Mishkind) writes:

> 
> According to CNN, Tom Leykis was dumped from KFI in favor of Dan Gates.
> 
> Talk about a format switch!


OK, OK!  DARRYL Gates ... I *knew* that!  <g>


==================================================================
Barry Mishkind
barry@jab.tucson.az.us

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From: jwg@acd4.acd.con (Jim Grey)
Subject: Re: KIIS-FM
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Applied Computing Devices
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 06:05:10 GMT


In article <1992Oct1.210032.10792@gagme.chi.il.us> lightw@cetra.trl.OZ.AU
(Liron Lightwood) writes:
>
>I hate it when stations point to the request shows and say 'That's what our
>listeners want. '  After all, request shows (at least over here), apart
>from the Top 8 at 8 type shows and a very few exceptions, tend to contain 
>exactly the same mix of music that any normal playlisted show would contain.
>
>Liron Lightwood                     Internet : r.lightwood@trl.oz.au
 
Of course radio stations don't play requests that are out of format.  I can't
tell you how many little girls have called me up and asked to hear Baby Got
Back ... I don't think our rock audience would appreciate hearing it.
 
But a little-known dirty secret of radioland is this:  All Request shows are
very often bogus.  We do All Request Weekends every now and again, and we
have three request hours every weekday (noon, 9pm, 3am).  Those hours are
playlisted just like any other, with two or three request slots.  We play
phoners before those slots.  So it feels like we're actually taking those
requests.  It's a great big lie, but program directors play it off as, "Well,
people are going to call and request the songs we've listed anyway."  Sure,
that occasionally happens.  When someone requests a current, darn straight
it'll be on the list before long.  But it's still a lie, and I hate being
part of it.
 
jim grey
jwg@acd4.acd.com

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From: genghis@uiuc.edu (Tim Elliott)
Subject: Re: looking for top 40 lists from the 80's
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: UIUC Computing Services Office
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:10:42 GMT

rcnelson@icaen.uiowa.edu (Ryan Christian Nelson) writes:
>Can anyone tell me if there's a site out there that has old (circa 1985)
>top 40 music charts (R&r, or billboard, or whatever)?  I'm doing research
>for a radio show that dredges up 80's classics.

>I'd also love to know if there's any hardcopys of stuff like this. (i'm
>looking for week to week stuff, rather than the easily found top 40 songs of
>1987 kind of stuff)

the _billboard top 40 hits from 1955-present_ (not sure on title, you get the
gist) is so informative and interesting that i'd recommend that you blow the
measley 19.95 on it.  it's really worth it.

i found the following great books at my local walden's, and grabbed all of
them.  they were all 17.95-19.95:

rock movers and shakers (i live by this book:  almost every rock artist is
there, plus it's all objective, with important events and album releases listed
by date.)

harmony illustrated encyclopedia of rock  (not as informative as above.  more
subjective, but illustrated, and a bit more fun.  an *almost* must-have.)

billboard's top 40 hits from 1955-present.  see above.  a must have.  two
separate sections, one by song title, one by artist.  really helps when you get
a call from someone asking "hey, who did such and such a song in the late 70's"

billboard's top 20 lists (not sure of title).  contains lots of lists like "top
songs of 80's"  "top dance songs of 70's"  "top songs of 1990".  "top female
songs" etc etc.  great stuff.

well, i'm not a very scientific reviewer, but believe me, if you like rock or
want to seem hip on the air, the $80 was worth it...

//tim
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From: jrd5@po.CWRU.Edu (Jacob DeGlopper)
Subject: Re: Alternative radio in Philly
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) 
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:46:12 GMT


In a previous article, devmail!pr@pegasus.att.com (Paul  Richards) says:

>(I see you have one of those Case wEstern Reserve accts - how do you
>go about getting one of those?)

Go to school here.  Period.  I assume he's a student who lives in Philly 
during the summers and whatnot.

If you're looking for freenet, telnet to freenet-in-a.cwru.edu, chose the
"visitor" option from the first menu, and look in the admin area for the
forms you need to fill out.
-- 
        Jacob DeGlopper, EMT-A, Wheaton (MD) Volunteer Rescue Squad
           -- CWRU Biomedical Engineering - jrd5@po.cwru.edu --
              jue@epaibm.rtpnc.epa.gov / JUE@NCCIBM1.BITNET

 
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