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By Stan Horzepa,
WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
August 17, 2002
Cruising with the radio blasting is a summertime avocation of teens and ex-teens alike. What made our radios blast is the object of our Web surfing this week.
Barry Mishkind's The Broadcast Archive Web site bills itself as "Radio History on the Web." The goal of the Web site is "to continue adding historical materials on both pioneer and current broadcast radio stations, as well as links and references to other locations containing accurate materials on broadcasting." After viewing the contents of the Web site, it seems that Barry is well on his way to fulfilling this goal.
 Barry Mishkind's The Broadcast Archive Web site is a source for great broadcast radio stories. |
The Web site is chock full of nuggets of broadcast radio history. Find out if David Sarnoff really did hear the distress call from the Titanic. Read such "war stories" as a first-hand account about climbing a 1572-foot radio tower . . . in the dark. Learn what were the first broadcast radio stations in each state, and discover what the acronyms that make up radio station call signs really signify. And what is the real story behind those now-rare three-letter broadcast station call signs?
You will spend hours poring over the entertaining and informative narratives in The Broadcast Archive. Every story I viewed on this site caught my attention and demanded to be read to its end. This is a very bookmarkable site that you will want to revisit.
In addition to the histories and anecdotes of broadcast radio, you will also find broadcast radio software that is downloadable from this site. These include radio-engineering tools and programs that allow you to search the FCC radio station database and plot the station transmitter locations on maps.
Many thanks to Bill Feidt, NG3K, a veteran AM broadcast listener (BCL), for the suggestion to feature this site.
Until next time, keep on surfin'
Editor's note:
Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, resides in downtown Wolcott, Connecticut, and is a member
of the QQCC (QST quarter century club),
ie, he has been a QST writer for 25
years. Since getting his ticket in 1969, Stan has sampled nearly every entrée
in the Amateur Radio menu (including a stint as Connecticut Section Manager),
but he keeps coming back to his favorite preoccupations--VHF and packet radio.
As a result, he runs a 2-meter APRS digipeater and weather station from his
mountaintop location in central Connecticut. Stan has been a long-time advocate
of using computers with Amateur Radio and wrote programs to dupe contests and
calculate antenna bearings way back in 1978. Today, he uses his Mac to surf the
Internet searching for that perfect ham radio Web page. To contact Stan, send
e-mail to wa1lou@arrl.net.
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