{"id":51627,"date":"2022-01-29T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=51627"},"modified":"2022-01-29T07:46:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T11:46:10","slug":"radio-waves-dynamic-gps-tutorial-bbcs-first-female-employee-rugby-cw-id-in-tubular-bells-and-roger-wallis-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/radio-waves-dynamic-gps-tutorial-bbcs-first-female-employee-rugby-cw-id-in-tubular-bells-and-roger-wallis-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Waves: Dynamic GPS Tutorial, BBC\u2019s First Female Employee, Rugby CW ID in Tubular Bells, and Roger Wallis Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Radio Sweden QSL<\/p><\/div>\n

Radio Waves:\u00a0 Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio<\/h1>\n

Because I keep my ear to the waves, as well as receive many tips from others who do the same, I find myself privy to radio-related stories that might interest\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0readers.\u00a0 To that end:\u00a0Welcome to the\u00a0SWLing Post\u2019s<\/em> Radio Waves<\/em>, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.\u00a0<\/strong>Enjoy!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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GPS Tutorial by Bartosz Ciechanowski<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Check out this amazing, dynamic deep-dive into the world of GPS.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The BBC\u2019s First Female Employee: Isobel Shields (The British Broadcasting Century with Paul Kerensa)<\/a><\/h2>\n

Episode 41 (aka Season 3 episode 2):<\/p>\n

On January 2nd 1923, John Reith interviewed Miss Frances Isobel Shields for a job at the BBC, to be his secretary. At the time the BBC had four or five male staff members. Miss Shields started work on January 8th, instantly making the BBC a 20% female organisation. It’s been greater than that ever since.<\/p>\n

This episode’s fab guest is Dr Kate Murphy: academic, former producer of BBC’s Woman’s Hour and author of Behind the Wireless: A History of Early Women at the BBC. Her book is brilliant and highly recommended for a deep dive into the subject.<\/p>\n

Hear Isobel Shields’ tale, plus the women who broadcast before her: Britain’s first DJ Gertrude Donisthorpe, 2LO’s first children’s presenter Vivienne Chatterton, and one of our first broadcast comedians Helena Millais. (You can hear their fuller tales if you go back to the earlier episodes on this podcast.)<\/p>\n

And hear about some of the women who joined the BBC soon after Miss Shields, like telephonist Olive May and women’s staff supervisor Caroline Banks. Plus hear about some of John Reith’s unusual management practices, from taking his secretaries to the cinema to his brutal firing criteria.<\/p>\n

But we dwell on his hiring not firing, as well tell the origin story of British broadcasting. [Continue reading…<\/a>]<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/s602.podbean.com\/pb\/2234af0d2a07cfb611984444fe72941f\/61eff6ee\/data1\/fs165\/8535872\/uploads\/ep41_-_First_Female_Isobel_Shields90589.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Hidden Morse Code in Tubular Bells (Madpsy’s Palace)\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n

The link between The Exorcist, Amateur Radio and Alan Turing.<\/p>\n

A quick look at how the movie The Exorcist from 1973 has links to the late great Alan Turing via Mike Oldfield\u2019s album Tubular Bells, Scotland and Amateur Radio. It\u2019s Halloween so figured why not throw some horror in the mix.<\/p>\n

When Mike Oldfield recorded Tubular Bells in 1973 he had no idea his first album on Virgin Records would be chosen as the soundtrack to The Exorcist later that year. Neither did he know that recording with Virgin Records would have an unintended consequence of hiding a secret message which dates back to 1926, shortly after World War One.<\/p>\n

Tubular Bells was famously recorded at The Manor Studio which was owned by Richard Branston and used as a recording studio for Virgin Records. The building is located in Shipton-on-Cherwell, England. Mike was given one week to record the album, on which he played almost all the instruments himself.<\/p>\n

The album initially struggled to sell. Then, later the same year, it was chosen as the soundtrack for the movie\u00a0The Exorcist<\/em>. It then experienced massive success and has since sold over 15 million copies worldwide. [Continue reading…<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Roger Wallis from “The Saturday Show” on Radio Sweden passes away<\/h2>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Lennart Wennberg, who notes:<\/em><\/p>\n

Just got the news that Mr Roger Wallis has died at the age of 80.<\/em><\/p>\n

I remember him from Radio Sweden’s Saturday Shows on MW in the 70s. He was “Big Bad Roger” and hosted together with Kangaroo Kim.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lennart Wennberg<\/em>
\nSweden<\/em><\/p>\n

From Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Roger Wallis (8 August 1941 \u2013 22 January 2022) was a British-born Swedish musician, journalist and researcher.[1]. He was an adjunct professor of multimedia at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.[2]<\/p>\n

Between 1967 and 1981, Wallis was the main presenter of the English language The Saturday Show on Radio Sweden. Wallis also co-wrote “Judy, min v\u00e4n”.<\/p>\n

Wallis died on 22 January 2022, at the age of 80.<\/p>\n

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