Category: July 2013
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Nikola Tesla 1856-1943
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor who discovered the basis for most alternating-current machinery. In 1884, a year after coming to the United States he sold the patent rights for his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse. He then established his own lab where he invented, among other things, the…
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Streaming Radio Guide
Here’s an interesting link to a web site that registers all FCC licensed radio stations that also stream their programming on the web. Radio Stations Streaming On The Internet
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Heinrich Hertz 1857-1894
This German physicist, who died of blood poisoning at age 37, was the first to prove that you could transmit and receive electric waves wirelessly. Although Hertz originally thought his work had no practical use, today it is recognized as the fundamental building block of radio and every frequency measurement is named after him (the…
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Build A Home Studio
Here’s a great article on how to create your own sound booth at home to record your programming. Yes, you too can do a radio show, in your jammies at 2:00 a.m. in the comfort and convenience of your home. Check it out! Voice Recording In The Home Studio
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Writing For Radio
Here is a great article about writing news bulletins for radio. When you click on the link, the document will open in a new window and you can save it to your desktop. You’ll also need a copy of the free Adobe Reader. Writing News Bulletins For Radio
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FCC Form 318 For LPFM Application
And if you’re a real glutton for punishment, here’s the current application for a Low Power FM radio station, as distributed by the FCC. If you would like to help, let us know! This link requires using Adobe Reader to see the form. LPFM Application
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Old Time Radio Shows
The Internet Archive is a non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. That’s the description from their website. Here’s an interesting link that includes their archives of old…
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Read A Book or Play
Do you like listening to audio books? Well, you can produce a radio show where you read a book over the air. Or you can create an old fashioned radio play and have a bunch of friends in to read your play over the radio. All while creating a podcast to post for posterity. Here’s…
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Feeling The Love – We Made 150
Thank you to everyone who clicked LIKE us. We reached 150 people in 30 days – an average of 5 new friends a day. Remember that shampoo commercial years ago that told you to tell 2 friends? Well if you can just share our project with two new people we’ll be off the charts!