#AM radio

[burronetta]

If there's one thing that "Project Zomboid" has taught me about human nature and what resources people are desperately in need of during a zombie apocalypse, it's entertainment. It's very easy after the radio/television broadcasts go out to get bored and depressed while you're trying to rebuild humanity, because most of your alone time is spent doing mundane grunt work that's essential. So, as part of those grandiose survival plans people make for fictitious zombie apocalypse scenarios, my plan is to set up shop somewhere safe and set up a radio station over AM radio.

I'd try to keep it lighthearted and fun, too, since there's already probably an emergency broadcast station in operation. I'd have regular humorous weather updates, play themed music each night, take in radio calls from folks who just want to chat, and offer encouragement to people in the zombie-infested countryside. "It's been fantastic spending this evening with you folks, but it's about time we head to bed at Big Burr Radio. This has been Papa Bear with my husband, the Phox, saying, g'night folks. Stay safe, stay sane, and look out for each other because each other is all we've got. Love you!"

[talesyettold]

2048 AM Voices in the Wood: a new miniseries from Tales Yet Told

Tales Yet Told is thrilled to announce a brand new actual play coming this August, set in the Sublime–the setting of their series Strangers in the Wood. 

2048 AM Voices in the Wood is a five-episode mini-series following 5 broadcasts of a student-run radio show in a dystopian world, where “everyone has a place” and those who don’t like their place are cursed to transform into animals. 

Mixing the elements of DIY music, body horror, and TTRPGs, Voices in the Wood explores the anxiety, frustration, and fear of what it’s like to realize that the world you live in isn’t as “great” as those in charge would have you think while also exploring what it means to find hope and community amongst the chaos.

Voices in the Wood is an immersive listening experience using the framework of the Ennie Award-winning TTRPG: VOID 1680 AM–featuring an incredible cast of 17 powerful and diverse voices from across the actual play space, such as Josephine Kim (GUDIYA), Barnaby (Unprepared Casters), Sea Thomas (Transplanar), and many more. The series also showcases a soundtrack consisting of 28 independent, genre-spanning bands and musicians, such as We Are The Union, American Television, and Missouri Surf Club.  If you're sold and want to try our show, you're in luck! Ep 1 - 'I Don't Know Who Is Doing This' is available to listen to now!

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[suburbanscrimshaw]

[thisisrealy2kok]

Sony Sports Walkman WM-FS221 AM/FM Portable Cassette Player

2001

[broadcastarchive-umd]

#QSLfriday KITE was an AM radio station in Kansas City, Missouri, licensed to First National Television, Inc., that broadcast from 1934 to 1942. It was initially one of four "high-fidelity" stations broadcasting above 1500 kHz, the upper end of the broadcast band in the 1930s. It transitioned to standard operations in 1941 and changed its call letters to KXKX in July 1942 before leaving the air on October 9.

First National Radio and Television Institute, a radio engineering school with 600 students, also held an experimental television license, W9XAL, which by 1934 was broadcasting for three and a half hours each day.

KITE sent this radio verification card to a listener in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in March 1941.

Committee to Preserve Radio Verifications   |   Tumblr Archive

[there-goes-trouble]

u dont like shortwave radio? bla bla bla?

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

1970 Sony TR-4100 |2023|

[gorrus]

[girlbeans]

this weekend's nifty thrift finds! :3

Nikon Z30 + Adapted 1970s 50mm Minolta Rokkor F1.4 (Nikon DX equiv. 75mm)

[fugu-in-f]

so i'm learning about radio on my way to understand ham radio, spurred on by a big vintage FRG-7 radio receiver i thrifted

i'm not in the ham bands yet, but i'm working through and cataloguing the stations i can pick up on the AM bands, and by gods, it's a cesspool in there:

"buy gold! Invest for Jesus with a 100% safe return on investment, or You Will Go To Hell! it's Wrong that pastors that get tax-exempt status cannot spend money towards lobbying; my free speech is jeopardized by The Secular State!"

some lady called in to some catholic radio station upset that there's a trans woman in the women's group and that everyone else in the group is accepting and tolerant about it (you go, girls!) but she's not and they'd call her a bigot if she said something, so the radio station is all 'wow that's too bad men are hunters(???) and you should probably find another church that's less accepting and tolerant :< (boo hoo)'

as a millennial, i've never in my life gone poking around on the AM radio bands, so it's kind of haunting to hear the scams, manipulation, and bigotry that hangs in the air, unheard and invisible by anyone young enough to claim ingorance, knowing there is a malaise taken as sacrament by our dogmatic elders

[n2qfd]

@swradiogram

Got about 1/3 of it before signals dropped for the borealis.

[stone-cold-groove]

WFAA 570 on your radio dial - 1936.

[wwjd1518am]

Show from March 11th, 2024!

[thisisrealy2kok]

Sony Walkman WM-FX195 AM/FM Portable Cassette Player (1999)

[broadcastarchive-umd]

#QSLfriday This station was first licensed as KGCB to the Wallace Radio Institute in Oklahoma City on August 19, 1926. In early 1929, the Champlin Refining Company bought the station and changed the call sign to KCRC. The station was a charter member of the Oklahoma Network, which was formed in 1937. Today, KCRC is a sports AM radio station serving the Enid, Oklahoma, area and owned by Chisholm Trail Broadcasting, Co. 

Committee to Preserve Radio Verifications   |   Tumblr Archive  

[oldshowbiz]

the sound of late night radio as you remember it