Sorry, I just couldn’t resist the urge to make a Raspberry Pi-rate graphic.
Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Paul, for this article on Make Magazine that teaches you how to turn your Raspberry Pi
What a simple hack:
(If the embedded video above doesn’t appear, simply click here to watch at Makezine.com.)
Raspberry Pi’s are very inexpensive (less than $40 US on Amazon)
Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Ulis, who shares this excellent deal on the Grundig G2: $29.99 US shipped!
You must hurry, though, as the deal is only valid today, Friday, March 7, 2014. Click here to purchase.
Ulis mentioned that the G2 was his first purchase from the retailer (1sale.com), but since he could pay with PayPal and the deal was first mentioned by CNET, he purchased with added confidence.
Note that the G2 is not a perfect radio–check out my review of its cousin the DE1129–but at $29.99, it’s a steal.
If you missed this deal, try searching Amazon.com for the Grundig G2.
Many thanks to Ken Reitz for sharing this:
(Source: Sackville Tribune-Post)
A piece of local history is slowly disappearing as crews dismantle the former Radio Canada International transmission towers on the marsh near Sackville, N.B.
The towers, erected prior to the Second World War, were declared obsolete in October 2012 after the CBC ended its shortwave service because of changing technology and the use of the Internet and satellite radio.
When no use was found for the facility the decision was made to have the towers dismantled.
“It’s really sad to see it coming down, there are so many great memories working there,” said former manager David Horyl, who spent more than 35 years working at the facility on the marsh. “It’s really going to change the look of thing over there. It’s quite a landmark.”
Current events in the Ukraine and Crimea remind Jonathan Marks that history–especially as broadcast over the airwaves–repeats itself:
“History keeps repeating itself, both on the ground and on the radio. The theatre going on in Crimea and Ukraine at the moment remind me of other situations. But there is a difference. The programmes below [click here] were all made when the Russian’s had an external broadcasting service called Radio Moscow, later renamed as Voice of Russia. Just as Voice of America shouted at the Russia, so Voice of Russia shouted back.”
Continue reading Jonathan’s full article, complete with audio and video clips, on his blog Critical Distance.
Yesterday, I posted off air recordings of WRNO Worldwide from 1983. Jonathan Marks then sent me a link to an interview he recorded in 1991 when WRNO founder, Joseph Costello, visited Radio Netherlands Worldwide in Hilversum.
Click here to visit the Media Network Vintage Vault and listen online.
Many thanks, Jonathan for sharing!
(Photo source: WRNO)
Many thanks to Dave (N9EWO) who writes:
“I see a great You Tube file (it’s in 2 parts) of a WRNO Worldwide broadcast “off air” recording made on Dec 14, 1983.
Ah yes the memories[…] You can hear the very start of a Radio Earth program along with some on channel interference before (until they made the frequency change to 6185 khz) which was common.”
part1 (14:34) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4cQHkqntOU
part2 (5:44) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OaQunhtIAY
(Photo: VOA News)
In response to the BBG’s request for comments on the relevancy of shortwave radio, SWLing Post reader, Rick, writes:
“Here is the reason why VOA needs to keep broadcasting on shortwave.
Russia (or China or Angola or Zimbabwe or Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria) can easily block Internet access — to include, and particularly from, VOA. While shortwave can be jammed it takes a little more effort (and a considerable amount of budget to pay the electric bill for the high-powered jamming signals).
Unlike AM and FM radio transmission, shortwave transmitters can be located continents away from the strife for protection of the transmission infrastructure.
Shortwave transmission — coupled with the surreptitious distribution and proliferation of cheap shortwave radio receivers for target audiences — can help insure that the voice of freedom and democracy can continue to be heard in geopolitical hotspots throughout the world.”
Read the story Rick refers to here: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/russia-ukraine-protests-websites-internet-104171.html
