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The Radio That Started Everything

Richard — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:36:28 +0000

Many, many and more years ago the family Thanksgiving was at Aunt Mamie’s house. I was 12 or so. In any case, was looking forward to FOOD which was always plenty on holidays. Once we ate and everyone settled down, I saw an AM radio sitting in the corner of the den. I turned it on to listen, but there was a band I was not familiar with — SW (Shortwave). I turned the band switch to SW and spun the dial What was this? Moscow? BBC? Cuba? All up and down the bands I was hearing stations from around the world just as if they were local. I was at that point hooked on shortwave and eventually ham radio. Not only did that experience become my main hobby, it also directed me down the road of communications and broadcasting. All because I was bored on Thanksgiving Day.

Then, just a few weeks ago I spied a 1947 Philco 1230 AM/FM/SW console on craigslist for sale. Just like the one I remembered a long time ago. So, I grabbed it in non-working condition. But, a couple replacement tubes and a few capacitors later…. it is now sitting in my house again spilling audio and memories of days long ago.

MNC Jets

Richard — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:35:43 +0000

New stadium, but so far the show has gone very well. Uh well, now rain delay.

Published In November 1985

Richard — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:31:50 +0000

See article here. Some of the software is here.

Do I Look Like My Great-Grandfather?

Richard — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:38:37 +0000

Download YouTube Videos with Mac

Richard — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:02:34 +0000

There is an easy way to download YouTube or other videos with Safari.

Open the page with the movie and press Command-Option-A, which shows the Activity window. If you’re also loading other sites, you’ll see a list of them. This window gives a lot of information on a web site.

Scroll until you find the YouTube page and click on the arrow to show details about what is being loaded.

You will see an element whose size is large over 0.5MB and if still playing is growing.

Double-click on it even if it is still loading.

Safari will download it.

When the download is over, navigate to the file in the Finder which will probably be called get_video and add the extension .flv to its name if needed.
Now you can play it with VLC or convert it to a format other than .flv.

Channel Islands Dolphin Audio

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:50:56 +0000

Cody, Shannon, Ken, Sharon and I went for a boat ride yesterday. We got into a huge pod of dolphins. Pictures, of course. But here an audio of them….

Channel Island Dolphin Audio

Webcam

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:18:40 +0000

Live Channel Islands WebCam

There is currently a webcam positioned to look out the master bedroom window shooting the channel with my zodiac and Silverton boat. You can see streaming video from the link on the homepage.

Watch for boats to go by…

Snow in WDC!

Richard — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:05:03 +0000

Our last Monday Night Football show was in Washington, DC. Needless to say, it was the weekend they got 24″ of snow….

MNC - Miami Dolphins

Richard — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:25:39 +0000

120 degrees on the field and 90% humidity. Great football weather.

MNC - Vikings Stadium

Richard — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:37:54 +0000

Setting up at the Metrodome…