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Grex > Radio > #21: Old Time Radio broadcasts | |
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eprom
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Old Time Radio broadcasts
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Nov 10 09:38 UTC 1999 |
Im looking for AM stations that broadcast old time radio shows,
such as Amos & Andy, Fibber McGee & mollie, Burns & Allen show, etc.
I remember listening to an OTR station at night when I was living
in NW indiana..but can't remember the stations call...not to mention
its most likely too far (probilly one of those 5000W at night stations)
I did a search on google and alta vista, but came up empty. :(
BTW Im living in NJ, near philly now.
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omni
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response 1 of 10:
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Nov 10 20:32 UTC 1999 |
I'm not too sure about this, but WAAM used to broadcast old radio shows from
6pm to midnite. WAAM is at 1600 AM, clearly out of the clear channel range.
I think you'd probably be better off finding a catlog like Wireless which
sells old radio shows on cassettes, and CD's.
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eprom
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response 2 of 10:
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Nov 10 23:44 UTC 1999 |
I went to the WAAM website and was directed to http://www.radiospirits.com
from there they have a listing by state..thanks for the refrence. :)
most of the stations listed were low power.
the closest one to me was WKST 1280, in New Castle, PA.
they broadcast 5kW during the day and at night 1kW using a directional
antenna....this is gonna be an interesting DX project. :)
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gull
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response 3 of 10:
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Nov 11 00:45 UTC 1999 |
Have you tried looking for a RealAudio or ShoutCast site that "broadcasts"
them over the Internet?
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eprom
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response 4 of 10:
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Oct 16 23:43 UTC 2000 |
That takes the fun outta listening... :)
kinda like these new-fangled PLL controlled VFO recievers,
that you can't fix cuz their hermatically sealed or have a
bunch of SMT components.
boooorrrrrrrring..
regenerative tube recievers are much more fun.
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n8nxf
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response 5 of 10:
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Oct 17 11:47 UTC 2000 |
I fixed a little crystal in a PLL / VFO transceiver once. I actually
cut off the can to gain access to the rock inside and fixed it. I've
fussed with PLL / VFO VHF and UHF commercial rigs to bring them into
the amateur band. I didn't find it the least bit boring! I actually
had to learn stuff to do it. The warm, fuzzy, glow from a box full
of fire-FETs is a nice thing on a cold winters night and you can even
work on their innards if you're all thumbs. There is also something
to be said for a little HT the size of a deck of cards that puts out
5W of RF, has a sensitivity of a fraction of a microvolt, that can scann
from DC to light and do it all on 3 AA batteries. Nope, Amateur radio
isn't Utopia either, however ;-)
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gull
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response 6 of 10:
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Oct 18 01:49 UTC 2000 |
I think we live in a pretty cool age for the RF experimenter, actually.
Some of the stuff you can get on ICs now is really cool. There's the NE602,
which is a pretty nice HF mixer/oscillator on a single chip. And there's
that 0.5-30 MHz precision VCO that I've been toying with building a PLL
around...throw in another chip for the phase detector, and some kind of
divide-by-N circuit, and you're almost there. I also have a Neophyte
Receiver, which is based on an ARRL design...the sum total of the active
devices is one NE602, one LM386 audio amp, and a voltage regulator. A
schematic of it is almost like a block diagram. And it works awfully well,
considering it's not a superhet.
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eprom
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response 7 of 10:
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Jun 20 00:41 UTC 2006 |
I now listen to old time radio shows on XM channel 164
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krokus
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response 8 of 10:
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Jun 22 14:01 UTC 2006 |
But XM doesn't take the fun out of trying to listen to the shows? (Or
did you build your own receiver?) :)
You're back in NJ? Did you head back to your old stomping grounds?
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eprom
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Jun 22 22:06 UTC 2006 |
hehe...I gave up trying to find an AM station that has the old time radio
stuff. I should make a DSP audio filter. Instead of cleaning up the signal,
it would add fade, multi-signal path echo, popping and static. :)
I'm still in Kzoo. This stupid degree is probably gonna take me 5 years to
complete. :{
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omni
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response 10 of 10:
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Sep 15 21:05 UTC 2006 |
You can also listen on KMOX 1120 am from St Louis, Saturday night 2am.
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