VOWR is off the air after a thunder and lightning storm Friday night. (Francesca Swann / CBC) One of Newfoundland and Labrador’s oldest radio stations was cut off after a severe thunderstorm hit the metropolitan area on Friday evening. VOWR station manager Doreen Whalen said the station’s transmitter was one of the victims of...
Read MoreLucille ball is back on the air! The late comedian and sitcom star, who died aged 77 in 1989, gets her own posthumous podcast on Sirius XM, the Los Angeles Times reported this week. The series, titled Let’s talk to Lucie, will feature “old tapes” from Ball’s 1960s CBS radio show of the same...
Read MoreA little over two years ago, I decided to expand our Cashbox brand and launch a radio station. Most of my colleagues thought it was a crazy idea and that there was no money in it. But we weren’t doing it for the money – we were doing it for the music. My background...
Read MoreSomething happened on the way to the future: the past got in the way. I’ve been spending time reading online forums and other vintage electronics pages lately. This includes sites that involve sharing the passion and getting help, like I did with an old Zenith TV console that my wife and I bought shortly...
Read MoreEric Webster was standing in a Fleet Farm when he saw a flexible sheet of metal. He grabbed it and after starting to shake it, his face lit up with joy. Then a confused-looking employee stepped in and said, “Sir, can I help you? “ Webster’s enthusiastic response: “Doesn’t that sound like thunder?” As...
Read MoreThe modern amateur radio hut can take many forms. Some are sanctuaries, the “anchor boat” radios of yesteryear, named for their considerable weight. Others are simply a small, unpretentious software-defined radio (SDR) hooked up to a laptop. Nowadays, there are a lot of cabins somewhere in the middle. It’s not uncommon to find a...
Read MoreThe generation after their fifties is probably familiar with the expression “ea chekku” (air traffic control), which refers to the recording of music from an FM radio program. With your finger ready to press the record button on your cassette player, you wait for the exact moment when the music you want to record...
Read MoreLOTTIE Ryan will digitize her late father Gerry’s old recordings so she can listen to it in his new car. he DJ 2FM transformed his 15-year-old Toyota Yaris this week into an all-new hybrid version. However, modern technology means that the old recording she had of Gerry on the Ryan line is not compatible...
Read MoreIn this digital age, few people care about the good old radio. But there is that time of year when nostalgia for this communication device is rekindled for many in Calcutta and West Bengal. Mahalaya, which marks the start of the festival season, is also the occasion for the restitution of Mahishasura Mardini by...
Read MoreCliff Kayhart has had a love affair with radio since he was a young boy. He built his first radio in 1920 at the age of 9. And in 1937 he received his amateur radio card. Today, at 102 years old, Kayhart remains active on the airwaves of radio amateurs. Its call sign is...
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