Drudge Report Radio ... June 18, 2006 [LISTEN LIVE]

Drudge on the Dial ^ | 6/18/2006

[lainie]

Is he trying to VoIP it?

[lainie]

CNN's RSS feed comment: "Japan, Australia and the United States have united in saying that any test-launching of an intercontinental missile by North Korea would result in serious and stern consequences. Reports say Pyongyang has completed fueling a missile with the range to reach the United States."

See previous threads on this same waiting game.

[lainie]

Art keeps saying he has "Ramona" in to talk about things topical. He said it twice.

[lainie]

I'm always ready & free to talk about anything after 10 pacific. Everyone's always gone by then. :) I live in the wrong time zone.

[BurbankKarl]

Ramona is reaching out from another dimension....

actually, Art came on first break after 11pm and said the network was going to put on an archived show due to all the dropouts he was having....so thats a taped show now

[lainie]

Thanks, I missed that announcement. Well then.. great career move, Artie!

[lainie]

yikes that was a six 6 six post. ew

[I see my hands]

I'm in Chicago right now. Thanks.

[Fudd Fan]

Cool!

My favorite the tribute to Mel Blanc, is the drawing of all the Warner Bros. characters by the mic with the caption "Speechless."

[TechJunkYard]

Also, back in those days, a big powerful AM sig was a good way for a bomber to home in on a major population center.

[Calvin Locke]

Nowadays, isn't it possible to use that sig as "radar"?

[Methos]

Naah I'm in Southern Pa. About 9 miles from the Md border.
Lived there for 30+ years and got tired of the commie lovin' legislature and figured it was time to GO.

[TechJunkYard]

Nowadays, isn't it possible to use that sig as "radar"?

For DME and speed measurement, I would say no -- the waves are too big. For example, a quarter-wave at WBT's freq (1.11MHz.) is (246/1.11=221.621) over 221 FEET long. That kind of wavelength propogates in different ways during the day and night, and won't bounce off objects.... and the bounce is what you want for radar. The time to get the return blip tells you how far away the target is, and the phase shift of the blip tells you how fast it's moving (relative to you).

For position targeting, again, nah. We've got GPS now. Since President BJ turned off Selective Availability, GPS is more than adequate to use for aiming bombs and missles. But if you wanted to destroy the transmitter site, that AM sig would be the thing to use.

[TechJunkYard]

Or perhaps you're thinking of the old "Russian Woodpecker" noise on HF, which used over-the-horizon-backscatter techniques to detect Russian missles. The Russkies, of course, used the same techniques to keep an eye on us. Uses "shortwave" spectrum where the radiated signals are a little shorter than in the broadcast band (quarter-wave at 5 MHz. is "only" 49 feet).

Now mostly obsolete for this purpose, NOAA is experimenting with parts of the system for weather prediction.

This stuff was a real pain in my ear back in my HF DXing days.