Tom Jones writes: Move over Mitch Miller & make room for Big Joe Turner ...
The Krumudgeon turns 73 next week (not a good age for a licensed ham: KA9SPA) but my mother's still alive at 98, so I figure I've got 25 more years to grouse about how radio is leaving big bands, ballads and Broadway (and, thus, me) behind. My satellite TV is, as I write, tuned to XM's "High Standards" channel, though, and I can go a decade earlier into my childhood years (I first fell in love with pop music in 1941) via XM ... and by mail order from Collector's Choice Music. My wife and I, by the way, solved the gasoline price crisis by buying our vacation home next door. Now, our property in Krum is a plot 120 feet by 270 feet, not big enough for a beverage, but flexible enough for a K9AY or a KAZ or an EWE or two or three ... plus, as Scott Fybush noted a few years ago, we're on the highest point, altitude-wise, in Krum, so if I ever put up a couple of poles for my FM antennas and the phasing unit I bought a decade ago but have never used, I could be in business on that band. Actually, the advantage of the purchase is that I get to move the bed in my DX den next door, so when family visitors come, they'll be more comfortable ... and I can stretch my equipment and books out. (The inactive ham shack in the garage is filled with stored stuff, but I can now move some of that and get KA9SPA back on the year ... again after a decade of silence. Let's see ... AM BC formats, K9AY, KAZ and EWE ... not completely off topic! Qal R. Mann, Krumudgeon Krum, TX (35 miles north of D-FW) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
