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allowed to see r rated movies despite my ability to watch them on cable television all the time until i went and saw platoon with some friends and yes i was 17 at the time so i was legal as a college classmate once said red needs to get out from under his parents thumb i tried hunting for it for this post but no dice so i figured it s long gone if i stumble on it later i ll provide an update blaugust2025 posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2025 adventures over the airwaves cb radio memes radio videos thursday august 28 2025 my adventures over the airwaves part 3 this is 64 wdcr broadcasting from kennedy union one of the goals i had when i went to college was to experience some things that i knew i wasn t going to have a chance to do again that explains why i decided to minor in history and philosophy despite being a physics major and also why i took a class in fencing my senior year i also participated in model un for a few years as part of the delegation that ud sent to new york for the national model un conference it also explains why i became a radio dj for my senior year no this is not me it s the late howard hesseman in his role as dr johnny fever on the late 70s early 80s television show wkrp in cincinnati from the new york times obituary on howard who died in 2022 at the age of 81 although it s long since been replaced by wudr flyer radio 99 5 98 1 fm ud had a student run radio station on am radio when i attended the university actually owned a commercial radio station at the time wvud 99 9 fm which broadcast from kennedy union but by the time i attended the university the student run rock format had become a purely commercial enterprise with a soft rock format which very few students actually listened to but there was another radio station nestled in the student union and that was wdcr am 640 it was designed as a completely student run station inheriting wvud s old student run design and although it was on am and was only broadcast via carrier signal on the power lines to the union and the university s dorm buildings you could sign up for a dj slot and spin the lps the only drawback was that by the time i did decide to sign up for a dj shift my senior year the format had changed from you can grab an hour or two and play what you want to we re playing a primarily rock and alternative format just like a professional radio station alas i couldn t imitate this scene from wkrp i did look into my yearbooks to see if there was anything worthy of a scan but nope one yearbook had wdcr as fm 64 not am 64 sigh since i didn t really have any ideas about what to play only that i wanted to be on the radio i was fine with that my freshman year roommate and current housemate and i secured a slot for a couple of hours in the mid morning once or twice a week and away we went two of my other housemates had been djs on the station already so that helped to ease me into the job the knowledge that people mostly heard us when they crossed through the lobby area of kennedy union meant that i didn t really have to worry about putting myself on the spot i did come up with a name mister physics which was actually one of the nicknames given me by my friends at ud but really nobody cared what i was called as long as i worked the playlist and had a bit of banter here and there with my housemate as co host although i knew about 2 3 of the songs on the playlist that other 1 3 were a real eye opener you d think that album oriented rock stations were all alike and maybe they are now in the era of corporate sameness and station centralization but radio stations even within the same format all had their own little quirks for example wtue fm in dayton had a different enough playlist than webn fm in cincinnati that i enjoyed wtue much more than webn when i visited home this was the first song i ever played as a dj i d never heard it until that moment by the time i had a dj shift radio had been changing while albums did exist and i queued up enough records over my dj tenure the music had already been migrating to tape machines i knew cds weren t too far behind given that wvud did have a cd system in place we got vud s hand me downs for equipment and when i was given a tour of the wvud studios i got to see the new systems in action you know having that one shift wasn t a big time commitment but having it that last year of college meant everything to me it was fun it was relaxing and i got to enjoy the illusion of being in control of what people listened to on the radio we did have a cast of characters there at the station there was the conservative commentator who couldn t crack a joke if his life depended on it the one station higher up who absolutely loved duran duran to the point of her following them when they went on tour over the summer the news reader who read the news impeccably and was always dressed to the nines but had such a conceited attitude i still remember her to this day and the fellow dj who if given the chance would queue up only van halen how can i miss you if you won t go away from wkrp in cincinnati being a dj meant i did have to do some work at the station other than just my shift i was supposed to come up with a promo for my spot as well has do a couple of other odds and ends but that never really happened my mind kind of works in weird ways and creative endeavors can take a while to finish a common complaint about my projects over the years is that my projects look really disjointed and have huge gaps until i manage to pull it all together at the last moment yes i know it s crunch to borrow the software development term but it does work for me however i never got to finish up those other things as a dj because i just never got a real deadline to work against as for my promo i had the idea of using monty python esque voices over sousa s the liberty bell march but i never really sat down to work out how it ought to flow the station manager wasn t pleased that i kind of half assed it but i had other priorities at the time and doing a promo wasn t one of them when i graduated i explored working a shift at dayton s local fine arts station wdpr 89 5 fm that was the frequency back then i think it s 89 9 now but i never got a callback that was fine with me since i had moved back to cincinnati that summer and really never left but still i do have the radio bug in me and it hasn t quite gone away in a quirk of fate when my son went away to college he decided to pick up a dj shift at his university s radio station due to simulcasting over the internet i got to hear his shift on tuesday afternoons quite a bit while i worked he kept that up for a couple of years until he spent a semester abroad at lancaster university in england but that my son walked the same path i did still makes me smile to this day yes i minored in math because that was expected of a physics major after all you were going to take most of the classes to qualify for it anyway as for philosophy the university of dayton had a requirement of 12 hours 4 classes worth of either religion or philosophy so it only took me two more classes to have enough to minor in it history however was something i geeked out over and so i took as many classes as i could i was told that if i wanted to meet girls i should take ballroom dancing because the girls outnumbered the boys in that class by something like 2 1 as it turned out i was already dating by then so i didn t need that encouragement again another acquaintance told me that girls really really loved listening to air supply as make out music which let s just say i was really skeptical of that one but yes he did have a cassette of air supply s hits and yes there were times when i heard it coming from the door to his dorm room yes you d think that me being a shy introvert would mean that i couldn t do a dj shift but i found that being merely a voice behind a microphone made it much easier to deal with i also got to hone my kermit the frog impression although it does make my throat hurt when i do it for more than a few minutes the lucky bastard got to play whatever he wanted i m jealous here s a link to the station yes you can listen live during the school year blaugust2025 posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blaugust2025 adventures over the airwaves dj music radio videos wednesday august 27 2025 my adventures over the airwaves part 2 on the beautiful blue danube i used to listen in at 5 00 utc to radio österreich international on 6155 khz it was broadcast to europe but was an easy catch for those of us living in eastern north america all of the global events of the late 80s and early 90s led to a spike in shortwave radio interest i remember during the beginning of the first gulf war one of our local television reporters had a 3 minute piece on shortwave radios and he demonstrated how they worked using a realistic dx 440 i found out a bit later that the reporter was a shortwave enthusiast so he was happy to promote the hobby although he did tell me that the television producer had the radio around only because it had 10 memory selections not because of its shortwave capabilities when i took a job at radio shack after my graduation i viewed it more from the lens of an electronics and radio enthusiast obviously anybody who has had to deal with radio shack over the decades can tell you i was fooling myself as my naïveté was crushed shortly after starting there still the best part of working at radio shack was when one of the ham radio operators dropped by to talk shop or when the cb or scanner fans came in for equipment or on those rare occasions when someone shopping for a shortwave radio stopped by after my time at radio shack ended fired for low sales numbers and i landed a job as a lab tech i still kept up with shortwave radio while at ud a friend gave me their old knight kit star roamer i tried and failed to get my dad interested in shortwave he listened to the radio all the time but no dice on this i honestly don t know what happened to the old star roamer this pic is from boatanchor pix i joined the north american shortwave association naswa and began receiving their monthly bulletins before that time i only knew of myself and a couple of other people who were interested in shortwave but here was an entire organization devoted to shortwave radio i also found the naswa area on the genie online community and i began participating in their forums i think i still have some of my old copies of the naswa journal around this is the cover of one of them but thankfully worldradiohistory com has pdf versions available for viewing during that time i kept a log of my shortwave listening habits yeah i know my writing isn t the greatest nestled among the official stations are a few stations that don t fit the mold of a traditional shortwave broadcaster wfrc and wsky whiskey radio those are pirate radio stations as long as radio has existed there have been people who have wanted to skirt the rules and broadcast on their own the reasons are myriad from people wanting to hear their music played on radio such as john peel and radio london of the 1960s to people broadcasting with a political slant to people just wanting to do their own thing i knew of radio newyork international and its brief period of free radio broadcasting off the coast of new york city but when i stumbled across this book at a local bookstore i suppose it was inevitable but eventually andrew yoder was caught by the fcc for broadcasting illegally himself i quickly snapped it up and began reading from pirate radio stations tuning in to underground broadcasts 1st edition by andrew yoder when i realized there was a club that tailored to people chasing pirates and clandestine communications the association of clandestine enthusiasts the ace i forked over a few dollars for an annual membership i actually have this copy i haven t stumbled across it lately however from the internet archive so why have i never mentioned any of this before outside of the obvious answer that this is a gaming blog and this really doesn t have anything to do with gaming at all well after that high point of the early mid 90s i haven t really listened to shortwave all that much the icom ic r70 well known for being able to suss out faint stations i bought a used one in 1994 and sold it in 2000 when i bought the grundig 800 from rigreference com i got married changed jobs twice and worked all sorts of crazy hours over the years i became a parent and as any parent will tell you that sucks up a lot of your remaining free time shortwave radio isn t my only hobby either and those hobbies came more to the forefront in the late 90s and beyond there s also the little problem of money i don t have the money to keep up with all of my hobbies so i had to pick and choose which hobbies to pay attention to and in the late 90s that meant giving up my memberships in naswa and the ace without that direct connection to the hobby my interest began to wane it also needs to be said that after that mini boom of interest from the first gulf war shortwave radio began a steady decline i had a feeling that the shortwave boom wasn t going to last and i was proven right as shortwave radio was eventually eclipsed by the rise of the internet it took much longer than i thought it would however because audio and video communications were still limited by network bandwidth downloading the first trailer of the fellowship of the ring from 1999 took most of the evening and night on our dial up internet connection at home and listening to the radio over the internet required faster speeds than dial up eventually however various forms of high speed internet made their way across the globe and with this new form of communication the old began to seem an antique the major shortwave broadcasters began to dry up here s just a few of the stations that you can no longer hear or hear easily where i live the bbc world service stopped broadcasting to north america and australia in 2001 citing changing habits and relying instead on rebroadcasts on american radio stations radio deutsche welle dropped their english service to north america in 2003 and gradually reduced their shortwave footprint over the successive years to africa only radio österreich international austria a favorite station of mine discontinued broadcasts in 2003 radio nederland and radio poland ceased operations in 2012 some of the decline in the older broadcasters is due to the changing technology but there are other reasons for the ceasing of shortwave broadcasts as well chief among them is the energy cost to broadcast via shortwave powering a shortwave station is not cheap running a 500 000 watt station takes a lot of energy and if you don t have extenuating circumstances to keep 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