Current ham radio news ARRL -We saw another week with no sunspots, which were last observed just briefly over two weeks ago on two days, March 8-9. Spaceweather.com reports that so far in 2020, the percentage of days that have no sunspots is the same as all of 2019, when it was 77%. Last […]
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The fact that the headquarters for the Belize Amateur Radio Club had caught on fire is disappointing.
Current ham radio news Antenna HF Antenna In An HOA, Chameleon MPAS 2.0 Is Discrete!! March 22, 2020 No comments Chameleon MPAS 2.0 1.8-54 MHz Modular Portable Antenna System IT’S IMPORTANT TO WATERPROOF THE CHA MIL EXT 2.0 BEFORE PERMANENT INSTALLATION Us… Read more YouLoop HF loop antenna March 21, 2020 No comments HF […]
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Though it is necessary due to the current strain of the SARS/Coronavirus, I am disappointed that the ARRL has suspended the visitation of its Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut to visitors.
Reblogged from RadioActivity: On 22nd March, 2020 Government of India announced complete lockdown in 75 cities all across India upto 31st March, in a bid to contain the further spread of the Covid-19 virus . It’s an unprecedented situation wherein except essential services, all shops, offices,factories are closed and prohibitory orders issued for general public. […]
via All India Radio curtails it’s services due to lock down in India — Shortwave Listening UK
Though measures must be taken due to the outbreak of the current strain of the SARS-Coronavirus, it is disappointing that All India Radio is suspending its services for the time being.
Originally posted on ve3ips: For the first time in its 68-year history, Dayton Hamvention® will not take place this year, due to concerns about the coronavirus outbreak. The glum news was not entirely unexpected, given widespread cancelations of public gatherings and a national state of emergency. “The Hamvention Executive Committee has been monitoring the COVID19…
via Dayton Hamvention Announces Cancellation of 2020 Show — Coastal Ham Radio
While this course of action may be necessary due to the outbreak of the current SARS-Coronavirus, it is also disappointing.
Current ham radio news Southgate ARC – Ofcom is proposing to make changes to its BBC Performance Tracker to ensure it remains up-to-date and fit for purpose via Current ham radio news https://ift.tt/2QoJKJX March 17, 2020 at 07:55AM via RSS Feed http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2020/march/bbc-performance-tracker.htm Current ham radio news Southgate ARC – With the travel restrictions and […]
DXNL 2189 – March 18, 2020 DX Newsletter a free and weekly service of DARC Committee “DX” (http://www.darcdxhf.de) Editor: Klaus Poels, DL7UXG (e-mail: dxmb@darcdxhf.de) translation by: Oliver Bock, DJ9AO DL, Germany: The short-lived Radiosportverband (RSV e.V.) was founded as the GDR’s first free, national amateur radio club on March 24, 1990. It existed until […]
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you already know if my interest in Radio.
I have not been happy about formerly the Township of Bethany/West Chester, Ohio becoming an urbanized area upon the Crosley/Voice of America Transmitter Site having been decommissioned, the towers being leveled; and the Transmitter Building becoming a museum.
The towns of Bethany/West Chester and Mason in Ohio were quiet, peaceful towns with Transmitter Sites housed there before the decommissioning of the VOA/Crosley Shortwave Transmitter Site, and the leveling of the towers.
The few remaining areas within the
The WLW Mason, Ohio Transmitter site, still standing peacefully and undisturbed while the area surrounding it has been urbanized and disturbed:
Another example of how the Bethany/West Chester area being urbanized ever since the decommissioning of the Crosley/Voice of America Transmitter Site, is this other young male running or jogging/exercising, while not being shirtless:
A Type 181/Volkswagen Thing parked behind the fence near the entrance to the WLW-AM Transmitter site in Mason, Ohio:
An AM General HMMWV parked in front of the WLW-AM Transmitter building in Mason, Ohio:
The historical marker dedicating the WLW-AM Transmitter Site and the Blaw-Knox Diamond-Shaped Antenna in Mason, Ohio:
A Blue Bird TC/2000 in the vicinity of Cincinnati and Bethany/West Chester:
School Buses repainted a different color at a Day Care facility in the recently urbanized Bethany/West Chester area:
Bikers riding on what was, until recently; a pleasant two-lane Country Road:
Yet another example of the Bethany/West Chester area being urbanized, and being changed forever for the worse is this witness young male on a “Crotch Rocket” Motorcycle who also needs to be transformed from being fit and muscular to being fat and overweight:
A young male exercising in the recently urbanized Bethany/West Chester area that needs to be transformed from being fit and muscular to being fat and overweight:
I also don’t like the same going on in the Pittsburgh suburb of Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania; where there are shirtless, athletic, progressive, and dynamic young males running around over there as well.
Shari Lewis was born in 1933, while Ken Squier was born a year later in 1934. That is one thing that they have in common-one is a year older than the other.
Ken’s father Lloyd:
For more information on both Shari Lewis and Ken Squier, please see these earlier posts:
Mallory’s Recently-Divorced Husband And Shari Lewis’s Ex-Son-In-Law Brad Hood
NASCAR Driver Marvin Panch’s Son Richie Panch
CBS’s Coverage Of Formula One And Indy Car Races
Connection With Shari Lewis, Her Daughter; And Her Sister-In-Law
Shari Lewis And Her Daughter Mallory’s Repression For The Evil Donald Trump
A video of the 1989 Detroit/North American International Auto Show-the very first year it had become an Auto Show of global importance along likes of the Auto Shows in Geneva and Frankfurt, followed by then Detroit mayor Coleman Young (who had served as the mayor of Detroit city proper for 20 consecutive years from 1974-1994) making an appearance with Martha Jean “The Queen” on what was by this time her own AM/Mediumwave radio station after the family of John Lord Booth had sold Martha Jean what was formerly WJLB-AM/WMZK-AM in 1982 after having worked at the station as an announcer and as an employee of the Booth family since 1966; and once this AM/Mediumwave station was in Martha Jean Steinberg’s own possession-she had changed the call letters to WQBH-AM.
Articles and advertisements about WJR-AM and FM, before the FM became WHYT-FM and played wierdo Top 40, Hip Hop, R&B, Alternative; and Hot Adult Contemporary music to this very day as WDVD-FM.
This was during the better times of the FM when it had simulcasted the AM station and later had an Easy Listening format.
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WJLB-FM, along with it’s sister station WJLB-AM; were owned by Booth American Company from when John Lord Booth had purchased the AM station in 1939 as WMBC-AM (the call letters had stood for Michigan Broadcast Company) and had changed the call letters to WJLB-AM to stand for Mr. Booth’s initials; and the FM station, which can be traced back to the year 1940 when Mr. Booth had applied for a license to operate a station on the newly allocated FM band
WJLB-AM was best-known for being the home of Martha Jean “The Queen” Steinberg, who had arrived at the AM station after having spent the past 3 years at WCHB-AM after having in turn, arrived there in 1963 from having worked many years prior at WDIA-AM in Memphis, Tennessee (since 1954, to be exact). At the time Ms. Steinberg had arrived at WCHB-AM in 1963, she had just divorced her husband Luther Steinberg and she had taken her 3 daughters to Detroit with her.
In 1941, John Lord Booth had put on the air experimental station W49D; the second FM station in the entire state of Michigan after crosstown rival The Detroit News had put APEX radio station W8XWJ (which later became W45D, WENA-FM; and by 1948-WWJ-FM). W49D was later granted commercial service in 1945, assigned to operate on 94.5 KHz and was also assigned call letters WLOU-FM, was assigned to operate on 97.9 KHz with the call letters WJLB-FM for the first time around, was assigned the call letters WBRI-FM sometime in the 1950’s, was assigned the WMZK-FM call letters sometime in the early 1960’s with an Ethnic format, and last; had swapped call letters and formats with WJLB-AM in 1980.
When Booth Broadcasting had swapped the formats of both their AM and FM stations in 1980, they had dropped Martha Jean Steinberg’s radio show in the process; leaving Ms. Steinberg without a radio home for 2 years until she would eventually purchase WMZK-AM outright from Booth Broadcasting in 1982, and change the call letters to WQBH-AM/
The call letters WQBH stand for two things: The Queen Broadcasts Here and Welcome Queen Back Home, in reference to “The Queen” being Martha Jean Steinberg’s nickname.
Booth Broadcasting would merge with another company called Broadcast Alchemy to form a newly merged company called Secret Communications, which would be very short lived as just a few months following the merger, the Booth family would sell their only station by this time-WJLB-FM to Chancellor Media in 1994. Chancellor would eventually be folded into Clear Channel Communications.
The Booth family had also owned a number of newspapers throughout the United States-being the Grand Rapids Press, Flint Journal, Muskegon Chronicle, Kalamazoo Gazette, Saginaw News, Bay City Times Jackson Citizen- Patriot; and the Ann Arbor News.
Last, as previously mentioned; the Booth family had also owned a number of other radio stations throughout the country-being WBBC-AM in Flint, Michigan; WSGW-AM in Saginaw, Michigan; WIBM-AM in Jackson, Michigan; and WJMO-AM/WXEN-FM in Cleveland.
Below are news articles about Martha Jean Steinberg, and when WJLB-AM chiefly became an R&B/Soul-formatted radio station in the late 1960’s:
The commercial below from 1988, with all of the bodybuilding and fitness gurus in this commercial; is concurrent with how much modern NASCAR drivers Jimmie Johnson, Elliott Sadler, Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards, Kasey Kahne, Denny Hamlin, Casey Mears, Johnny Sauter; and Regan Smith, Indy Car driver James Hinchcliffe; and Formula 1 drivers Nick Heidfeld and Jenson Button all are.
The commercial below drives home the point that the NASCAR, Indy Car, and Formula 1 drivers mentioned above need to be transformed from being fit and muscular to being fat and overweight.
As the music that WJLB-FM has played ever since it had swapped formats with WJLB-AM/WMZK-AM in 1980 is the music that Elliott Sadler, Kevin Harvick, Kasey Kahne, Denny Hamlin, Casey Mears, Johnny Sauter, James Hinchcliffe, Nick Heidfeld; and Johnny Sauter all listen to, this commercial also drives home the point that ALL of the NASCAR, Indy Car, and Formula 1 drivers mentioned above need to be forced to listen to Adult Contemporary, Jazz, and Easy Listenng music.
WMAL-AM’s transmitter site in Bethesda, Maryland.
WMAL-AM transmits on 10 Kw during the day and on 5 Kw at night.
The transmitter building, which at one time; had also served as the studios for this AM station and WMAL-FM:
Matthew Parij 