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DavidEduardo, Radio's "Most Interesting Man In The World"?

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Mikey Radio

Most everyone on this site has read David's many posts on a plethora of topics, and what can't be debated is the amount of experience and knowledge he has to offer, most especially when it comes to programming. In the Discussion thread about the Edmund Fitzgerald, he mentioned he's also a former sailor! Who knew??

As most are also aware, David is the creator and webmaster of https://worldradiohistory.com/ which has an incredible amount of old broadcast-related yearbooks, trade publications, magazines, catalogs and other "stuff" for perusing and he's always looking for people to send him items he doesn't yet have.

Earlier this year I stumbled across this interview with David and found it really interesting. I also thought it was fun to be able to put a face and voice to this guy who's always offering up so much information and opinion on the www.radiodiscussions.com website...
 
Thanks por the promo !

Most important is the need to rescue and preserve the document history of radio and the related tech and music fields. I am, indeed, always looking for stuff to add to the site (link below) and particularly old radio music publications like Hamilton and FMQB and others.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Thanks por the promo !

Most important is the need to rescue and preserve the document history of radio and the related tech and music fields. I am, indeed, always looking for stuff to add to the site (link below) and particularly old radio music publications like Hamilton and FMQB and others.
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Bravo!
 
I also want to thank you, David for your world radio history web site. Although I was an electrician by trade, I've been interested in radio communications since I was a teen. And since I'm in my 70;s-thats been a few years ago! So much info-but my favorite is The Broadcasting and Cable magazine section...
 
TexasTom said:
Yes, it's a great website and one that it is easy to get lost in for an extended period of time because so much is there.
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Just a note that I am adding issues of Mix and of Radio World as fast as I can scan them. I have been doing about 40,000 pages a week between them, so if either of those are titles of interest, check them out.
 
And the esteemed Sr. Gleason is also responsible for the History of UHF Television site coming back to life, as part of World Radio History.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Just a note that I am adding issues of Mix and of Radio World as fast as I can scan them. I have been doing about 40,000 pages a week between them, so if either of those are titles of interest, check them out.
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40K pages a week?!?!? That's 238 pages an hour, if working 24/7. How in the world do you do that? If you're hiring it out, the cost has to be astronomical!
 
KeithE4 said:
40K pages a week?!?!? That's 238 pages an hour, if working 24/7. How in the world do you do that? If you're hiring it out, the cost has to be astronomical!
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My principal sheet-fed scanner, a Kodak Alaris i4250, can do 120 sheets (240 pages) a minute, so, taking into account preparation and doing data entry on files, I can do 8,000 to 10,000 pages in a two to three hour session. If I use the wide format scanner for schematics, etc, it is about 6 pages a minute, and much slower.

Here is the sheet-fed scanner: The Kodak i4250 scanner
Here is the wide format scanner: https://www.scantastik.com/hardware/widetek-scanners/wide-format-scanner-36-CL-MF.html

Most of the time goes in processing the scans for best contrast, eliminating faded paper backgrounds, etc.
 
WOW! David I had no idea - I have been trolling through WorldRadioHistory for AGES and LOVE IT TO BITS! In fact I have easily lost entire days to reading articles, magazines and more. It's a fantastic resource - and I had no idea you were on here too - seriously thankyou for such an amazing piece of research and work - thank you, thank you, thankyou!
 
Flashing back to the Dos Equis ad campaign that spawned the Most Interesting Man in The World concept, my favorite line about the Most Interesting Man was "He lives vicariously ... through himself." I think that's appropriate for the person who is the subject of this thread.
 
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