Hi Mark!Where are you now? I'm in Philadelphia on the East Kensington neighborhood. -Ed
I think that any list of nearby restaurants that
SWLfesters have found to be good (and posted on
the swlfest.com website) should be limited to
those that SWLfesters have actually patronized
and found to be good--rather reviews simply
copied and pasted from Google, Yelp, etc with no
actual
Thanks Dan!
-Ed
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There's several cheap bus options from NYC to Philly, costing
$8-$12. I've taken them all and they're fine but not
luxurious. They typically have free (unsecured) Wi-Fi.
Sometimes you can get a round-trip for $12 if you buy a few days in
advance. Here's a website that aggregates all of
Or maybe change it to "midnight ride broadcast". More than one new person I've asked to come to the SWLfest read the website and ask me what the hell the "midnight ride" thing is. There's such a thing as being
You might consider changing changing "midnight ride" to "midnight broadcast" to more clearly describe Pancho's midnight activity to newcomers, who probably can't figure out what it is.-Ed Cummings
Dave, good news--the PDF spec sheet for the PantronX Titus II says it
has "Top mounted controls: Volume +/-, Tune, Set". So that's a good
sign for blind folks and others like me who like tactile
controls. Here's a link to more info about this revolutionary
portable SDR, with instructional
location--with rooms for all SWLfest attendees.
Some of the homes could be rented out to people
who wear tin foil hats because they feel that RF
signals are screwing with their brain. Free labor.
-bernieS
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 18:04:14 -0400
To: o...@2600.com
From: bernieS <b
Saul, you could telephone the managers of RS stores near you and ask them
which ones in your area are (or will be) converted to Clearance Stores.
This must be an exciting time to be working in Radio Shack retail management!
-Ed Cummings
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Radio Shack carried a variety of decent shortwave receivers, and many stores probably still have some in stock at blowout prices (or soon will.)http://www.radioshack.com/search?q=shortwaveThis Wall Street Journal article below has a link to an interactive map of Radio Shack stores having
http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/asia-pacific/55735-141227-us-funded-radio-liberty-in-azerbaijan-raided
US-funded Radio Liberty in Azerbaijan raided
Reporters Without Borders condemned raid: 'RFE/RL
latest victim of campaign to stamp out media pluralism'
(Photo) Le siège de Radio
Hi Everyone,
Please note my new email address is bern...@panix.com and update
your contacts as needed.
Thanks much!
-Ed
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So sad. I was unable to find a picture of Ben Hester in the
newspaper obituary below, or on the funeral home obituary it links to.
-bernieS
At 09:42 AM 7/14/2014, U Fleming wrote:
I received a phone call yesterday from Linda Hester, Ben's wife,
that he passed away Friday from complications
I want to thank Rich and John for securing the excellent Presidential
Suite at the hotel this year for the Hospitality Room. It's on the
hotel's top floor with a great view of the southern horizon from the
balcony--which juts out just a few feet from the huge flat roof
above. This presents a
A radio listening hobby publishing era comes to an end.
Perhaps at this year's SWLfest someone could do a retrospective talk
about all the printed radio listening hobby magazines that came and
went, and what non-paper alternatives now exist.
-Ed Cummings
- Forwarded message from
The Radio Technology Museum (at the InfoAge Science History Learning
Center in Wall, NJ) is definitely worth a visit. I've been there a
few times and its numerous museum-quality displays--many of them
working!--are very good. You can spend hours there without getting bored.
Proceeds from
Here's a neat photo and description of a piece of equipment used by
the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, which among other things
was the CIA's SWL'ing division. The UK's MI6 equivalent was called
the BBC Monitoring Service.
-Ed Cummings
The 148 photos of artifacts on the new CIA Museum website are worth
scrolling through. Here's a radio receiver concealed in a what looks
like a standard smoking pipe. The user listens covertly via bone
conduction from the jaw to the ear canal. Presumably, one could
listen to Captain Ganja
Rich, thanks for the heads-up on the new dictatorial culinary regime.
I've seen other hotels pull this scam with other conference groups
I've been involved with. After the conference establishes a hotel as
a repeat venue and everyone is comfortable with there, the hotel
starts turning the
In the mid-80's there was an unsuccessful
consumer data-over-mediumwave service in the
U.S. I forget the name of the company offering
it, but it required the purchase of a demodulator
(one-way modem) to connect between the earphone
jack of your AM radio and the audio/data input of
your
I feel compelled to point out that the SWLfest is not a spectator
event. It's only as good as all of us participants make it, by
soliciting and facilitating new speakers who we think our fellow
'festers would appreciate, by bringing new exhibitors, and by
creating new attractions such as film
RC
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:37 PM, bernieS
mailto:bern...@netaxs.combern...@netaxs.com wrote:
Sad news: USPS has announced they will stop selling International
Reply Coupons (IRC's) in about five weeks. Stock up now before it's too late
Here's a steal for aspiring shortwave broadcasters: four (4) Harris
RF-765 HF transmitters for $3,000 each, ready to pickup in Frederick,
MD. Weight 1800 lbs.
Shall we all go in on one together? ;-)
-Ed Cummings
What frequencies and modes does it
cover? Selectivity? Sensitivity? Does it make brownies?
-Ed Cummings
At 07:42 PM 12/18/2012, you wrote:
At the request of a young girl, Hasbro now has a prototype of it's
Easy-Bake Oven for boys. It is in Black and Silver. Previously it
was only
On a related note...
-Ed Cummings
http://www.pcjmedia.com/
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PCJ RADIO
Special edition of Happy Station Show broadcast June 29th 2012 to
North America and the Caribbean. This show was done to celebrate
Happy Station during it's run on Radio Netherlands Worldwide. At
I heard on BBC World Service tonight that new BBC
management will compel the BBC World Service to
vacate historic Bush House after 80 years
there. A Google search found this nice
retrospective homage to the work that went on
there. Perhaps fittingly, George Orwell's
description of the
Worth listening to.
-Ed Cummings
http://soundcloud.com/emma_crowe8/bush-house-nights?utm_source=soundcloudutm_campaign=shareutm_medium=twitterutm_content=http://soundcloud.com/emma_crowe8/bush-house-nights
Bush at night
Jun 21st, 2012
A delightful 8 minute sound documentary by Emma Crowe.
Can anyone recall the name of the panelist (and the name if his
organization) who is using low-cost LPFM transmitters with IP
streaming audio receivers to bring radio programming to remote
areas? I'm out of town away from my SWLfest notes, and need to
contact him. Thanks much!
-Ed Cummings
What is the absolutely simplest to use internet radio on the
market? I have an 88 year-old aunt who is recovering from a stroke
who loves listening to popular music from the 30's and 40's, and
listening to it would be beneficial in her recovery. But the most
she can handle is a volume
. The
small speakers with built in amplifiers typically used with
computers works fine and is plug compatible with the docking interface unit.
Joe
From: bernieS bern...@netaxs.com
To: swlfest@hard-core-dx.com
Sent: Monday, May 7, 2012 5:32 PM
Subject: [Swlfest] simplest-to-use to use internet radio
Richard,
While you and John are discussing future hospitality room options
with the hotel management, perhaps you could inquire about the
availability next year of the Presidential Suite on the 6th
floor. It has large windows with a nice view, and an open balcony
facing south which would be
Interesting. When I learned about this Aero service at the SWLest I
wondered how they'd be dealing with the copyright issues. Apparently
they'll be litigating them.
Does Aero use a separate rented TV antenna for each subscriber? That
would seem to be less of a legal issue. If yes, that
Hi Maryanne. With all due respect, your prejudicial comments
indicate that you haven't bothered to look at http://www.hope.net or
any of the hundreds of archived talk recordings there that go back to
1994. Many people from our SWLfest community have attended and
spoken at HOPE. Anyone who
Excellent 3-day SWLfest, Rich and John! Thanks for all your hard
work to make it happen. I'd like another 3-day event next year; it
allowed for more content and felt more relaxed. I don't think that
two days is enough time to fit in all we'd like to, although I'm not
sure how others feel
We'll need a reliable wireless internet connection that's *not*
behind a 'captive portal'--not just for the 'Internet Radio' forum,
but for some others as well. Some 'Internet Radios' cannot work with
WiFi connections behind a 'captive portal.'
-Ed Cummings
At 09:01 PM 1/30/2012, you
Amazon's under $200 Kindle Fire is not only as portable as any
shortwave portable, its dual speakers and decent audio work very well
with the excellent free TuneIn Radio app:
http://www.amazon.com/TuneIn-Radio-Pro/product-reviews/B004XDYJRU
Since our traditional Listening Lounge is now
:20 PM, Richard Cuff rdc...@gmail.com wrote:
Good suggestion - we'd have to sort out the logistics...
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:11 AM, bernieS bern...@netaxs.com wrote:
Amazon's under $200 Kindle Fire is not only as portable as any shortwave
portable, its dual speakers and decent audio work
Actually, it was Maggie Avener and her colleague Paul (not Pete
Tridish) who came to last year's SWLfest and presented a Prometheus
Radio Project talk (and information table.) Pete Tridish stepped
down from his Director of Electromagentism post at Prometheus last
year, but he's still very
I say we charter a bus and all head down to sunny
Sarasota Florida to catch the film!
-Ed Cummings
At 02:58 PM 11/7/2011, jfigl...@nycap.rr.com wrote:
Look what shows up on the first day of the
Cine-World Film Festival in Sarasota, FL this
week! FRIDAY, NOV. 11 11:30 a.m. âMy
: Contents of Swlfest digest...
Today's Topics:
1. Resurrect Dead: showing in Philadelphia this week (Richard Cuff)
2. Re: Resurrect Dead: showing in Philadelphia this week (bernieS)
3. Re: Resurrect Dead: showing in Philadelphia this week
(Frank Decker)
4. Re: Resurrect Dead: showing
my be solved. CRAIG
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To: Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest swlfest@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [Swlfest] Resurrect Dead: showing in Philadelphia this week
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:50:45 -0400
Hmm...did my post about
This film featuring the SWLfest is consistently
selling out a 350-seat theater night after
night--so another screening is being added this
Tuesday. If you're within an hour or two of
Philly, it's worth catching this film with a big
general audience. This is the final cut with a
few changes
Reading between the lines, it appears that many workers at BBC's
fabled Foreign Media Monitoring Service are being sacked. Sounds
like a dream job; no wonder they're upset!
-Ed Cummings
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14152795
14 July 2011 Last updated at 19:31 ET
BBC
At 04:13 PM 7/7/2011, Richard Cuff wrote:
The case involved Prometheus Radio Project, who presented a forum and
also had an exhibit at the Fest.
Richard
http://www.freepress.net/press-release/2011/7/7/court-rejects-fcc-attempt-weaken-media-ownership-rules?akid=2661.8878438.mbudSmrd=1t=5
assuredly be appealed. The Justices
there think grassroots and community refers
to corporations, the larger the better.
Having said that, I endorse your sentiments amd suggestions in their entirety.
:-(
John Figliozzi
bernieS bern...@netaxs.com wrote:
At 04:13 PM 7/7/2011, Richard Cuff
An article on BoingBoing.net alerted me to some
new FOIA documents on
http://www.governmentattic.org -- at least two of
which which may interest SWL Fest list members:
NEW - Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) 2010
2012 BBG Technology Strategic Plan and BBG
Technology Update - 2009 -
Scott Fybush presented an excellent pictorial lecture about
historical radio broadcast towers and antennas at the NAB conference
I attended in Philadelphia a couple of years ago. I think he'd be a
terrific guest presenter for the 25th annual SWLfest.
He maintains an excellent website about
I enjoyed the fest and the new venue. Many thanks to our fine
festmeisters for all their efforts!
A few issues about the hotel:
The guest rooms were *extremely* dry. They should offer free humidifiers!
The hospitality suite seemed rather small and less hospitable than
the one at
Thank you to everyone who attended the private screening of the film
Saturday afternoon. We had a packed theater--maybe the free hot
popcorn and drinks helped with that! Is there any interest in
screening another radio-related film at next year's SWLfest? Perhaps
it could become a new 'fest
It looks like the the SWLfest might get hit with some solar winds
this Friday/Saturday which will affect radio propagation:
http://www.solen.info/solar/
-Ed Cummings
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