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"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 12/29 7-11pm est
WAMU ^ | 12/29/13 | Ed Walker

Posted on 12/29/2013 2:27:14 PM PST by Vision

Friends, it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.

Listen Live

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*tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.


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To: Anton.Rutter

Nice. Welcome. I never had it but like grain beverages.


21 posted on 12/29/2013 4:33:01 PM PST by Vision (Tune out, drop back)
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To: Vision

Eeeevil and addictive! :-O


22 posted on 12/29/2013 4:35:55 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Vision

Oh, man. I remember this one now. They have to go tell the cop’s wife he was killed. He was the one having the New Year’s party. So sad!


23 posted on 12/29/2013 4:39:02 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Vision

Oh, boy! The fireworks are starting in our neighborhood, starting in earnest! BOOM! BOOM! BAM! CRACKLE CRACKLE!!!


24 posted on 12/29/2013 4:59:44 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina

Bing Ping!


25 posted on 12/29/2013 5:20:30 PM PST by Vision (Tune out, drop back)
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To: Vision

I was just thinking that and said it out loud! THE VOICE!


26 posted on 12/29/2013 5:21:03 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina

27 posted on 12/29/2013 5:29:27 PM PST by Vision (Tune out, drop back)
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To: Vision

I have an antique Philco tombstone style farm radio from the 30’s. I won it in a bet.

I built a small circuit with a microcontroller and a 32gb SD card that plays random songs, commercials and plays from the early days of radio. I placed this inside the radio and hooked up an orange LED to illuminate the old radios tuning dial.

Old farm type radios are good for this since the speakers have a permanent magnet and not a powered magnetic coil, so you can drive them easily.

The radio’s on/off volume control switches the board from sleep mode to active mode and controls volume... there is over 50 hours of old radio files on the SD card and still room for more as I find them.

Several people have commented that they wish they had a similar old radio.... might be a good ebay sale item. There are cheap Asian import radios that look like old radios and would be a good base for constructing these. :-)


28 posted on 12/29/2013 5:37:25 PM PST by Bobalu (The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics)
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To: Bobalu
That's pretty cool. As an aside, do you know there are dedicated OTR internet radio stations?
29 posted on 12/29/2013 5:45:39 PM PST by Vision (Tune out, drop back)
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To: Vision

I used to listen to one such a long time ago, no idea now about the url but I bet there are several out there..try google.

I got the files for my old radio from usenet groups that specialize in old radio mp3 files.


30 posted on 12/29/2013 5:54:49 PM PST by Bobalu (The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics)
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To: Vision

YES! Delicious Jello, in more flavors than ever!

And for all you kitchen warriors, here’s an easy, fast, delicious dessert recipe using peach flavored Jello brand gelatin!

Peach Cobbler Dump Cake

1 (29 oz) can sliced peaches, drained, juice reserved
1 (6 oz) package peach flavored (JELLO!) gelatin mix
1 (18.25 oz) package yellow cake mix
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup water

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place peaches in bottom of 9x13 cake pan (cutting in large chunks, if preferred, to more evenly distribute). Sprinkle dry peach gelatin evenly over peaches. Evenly sprinkle dry cake mix over gelatin. Cut up butter and evenly distribute over cake mix, or melt butter and drizzle it. Combine the 1 cup of reserved peach juice and 1/2 cup of water, and gently pour evenly over the top.

Bake 55 minutes, give or take a few, until golden brown.


31 posted on 12/29/2013 5:55:29 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina
In the ‘30’s Jello was probably this futuristic, exciting dessert.
32 posted on 12/29/2013 6:00:51 PM PST by Vision (Tune out, drop back)
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To: Bobalu
Excellent!

Here's our 1936 Atwater-Kent, functional!


33 posted on 12/29/2013 6:01:01 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Vision

Yes, it was Buck Rogers before Buck Rogers was cool! :-) The COLORS! :-)


34 posted on 12/29/2013 6:03:55 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina

...Don’t fence me in...

lol


35 posted on 12/29/2013 6:17:08 PM PST by Vision (Tune out, drop back)
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To: WXRGina

That’s a real beauty!
It has a magnificent dial face.

Repairing these old radios is usually easy. Most have bad capacitors that cause them to have a loud hum or have a bad tube. Often you have to re-string the tuning mechanisms or troubleshoot the power supply. A beautiful case is the most important thing to have and you certainly have that in this radio!


36 posted on 12/29/2013 6:20:37 PM PST by Bobalu (The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics)
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To: Bobalu

I keep thinking a classic wood shell with an internet radio inside.


37 posted on 12/29/2013 6:22:42 PM PST by logitech (It is time.)
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To: WXRGina

Dream girl, dream girl....


38 posted on 12/29/2013 6:23:07 PM PST by Vision (Tune out, drop back)
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To: logitech

A raspberry pi with wifi dongle would make that an easy project :-)


39 posted on 12/29/2013 6:24:22 PM PST by Bobalu (The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics)
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To: Vision

Beautiful, Lustre Cream Girl! :-) I now remember all these shows Ed played last year.


40 posted on 12/29/2013 6:27:50 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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