{"id":10519,"date":"2014-08-13T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10519"},"modified":"2014-08-13T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T20:00:41","slug":"radio-a-rare-dimension-to-our-human-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/radio-a-rare-dimension-to-our-human-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio: “a rare dimension to our human experience”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SX-99-Dial\"<\/a>Regarding Garth Mullins’ radio documentary<\/a>, SWLing Post<\/em> reader, David Korchin<\/a>, comments:<\/p>\n

“I got my start in a small FM station in Saskatoon\u2014CFMC, doing overnights, then drive, then mornings.<\/p>\n

Kind of a loose format, and with such a small staff that we were all doing each others’ jobs. When the news guy went on vacation, I got to rip-and-read.<\/p>\n

Later I moved to another market, with a bigger transmitter and more audience, a tighter format and rules about what you could say and play\u2014but the lone magic of talking into the mic and being in the ears of a complete stranger never left.<\/p>\n

It’s why I’m a Ham, I suppose. It’s already depressing that the biggies like Netherlands and Canada and others have tuned out. I hate to ponder the End of Radio\u2014it’s like losing an untouchable, rare dimension to our human experience.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

David Korchin (K2WNW) is also a talented\u00a0photographer; check out his website–One Camera One Lens<\/a>–and especially his photography project, The Hamateur<\/a>. Amazing images…<\/p>\n

Many thanks for sharing your thoughts, David!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regarding Garth Mullins’ radio documentary, SWLing Post reader, David Korchin, comments: “I got my start in a small FM station in Saskatoon\u2014CFMC, doing overnights, then drive, then mornings. Kind of a loose format, and with such a small staff that we were all doing each others’ jobs. When the news guy went on vacation, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,56,545,3,43],"tags":[29,2264,3079,3176,314,3174,3175,84],"class_list":["post-10519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-broadcasters","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-cbc","tag-david-korchin","tag-documentaries","tag-end-of-the-dial","tag-future-of-radio","tag-garth-mullins","tag-ideas","tag-why-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2JF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10510,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/radio-is-dead-not-according-to-mullins\/","url_meta":{"origin":10519,"position":0},"title":"Radio is dead? 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