I actually signed up a while back in search of furtive pirate signals so this intro comes late.
Grew up in SE PA, got interested in radio as soon as I discovered nighttime AM DX; my brother and I logged everything we could find right down to XERF in Juaréz. That led to building a shortwave radio (the old Heathkit GR-81) and getting my amateur license at age 14. The next project I built was a tube-driven AM transmitter which I ran out to my longwire to see how much neighborhood I could cover. Later discovered E-skip when KLJC (now KJNW) one day squashed WAMU.
Got my broadcast training at WXPN (the original one, not that horrid contraption on the air now), doing a bit of everything and hanging out with the CE to absorb whatever there was to absorb even if it was 3am transmitter maintenance. Lots of production wherever I could get it. Later took the night shift mic at an AM/FM combo ("95-3 KXE") in northern New England, the one and only commercial station I ever worked for, and only because it had a noncommercial sound. We butted heads over how noncommercial that sound was going to be, and they paid pauper wages anyway, so I left. Became a player at WWOZ and was in fact the next-to-last voice on the air before Katrina hit and shut down that studio forever (they since built a new studio). Now I'm in the mountains of western NC, other than my own local microbroadcasting I did some shows from my home studio for WART-LP. Outside all of that I worked for decades doing corporate onsite recording -- a fascination that actually predates the radio stuff; I made my first reel-to-reel in 1958.
Anyway those are my lowlights.
I still DX, whether shortwave or hunting the occasional E-skip on VHF. I came here originally looking for ideas on elusive pirate or Franken-TV signals in this area that others might have heard. Especially interested in antennas and making one more efficient, signal processing etc.
73
Grew up in SE PA, got interested in radio as soon as I discovered nighttime AM DX; my brother and I logged everything we could find right down to XERF in Juaréz. That led to building a shortwave radio (the old Heathkit GR-81) and getting my amateur license at age 14. The next project I built was a tube-driven AM transmitter which I ran out to my longwire to see how much neighborhood I could cover. Later discovered E-skip when KLJC (now KJNW) one day squashed WAMU.
Got my broadcast training at WXPN (the original one, not that horrid contraption on the air now), doing a bit of everything and hanging out with the CE to absorb whatever there was to absorb even if it was 3am transmitter maintenance. Lots of production wherever I could get it. Later took the night shift mic at an AM/FM combo ("95-3 KXE") in northern New England, the one and only commercial station I ever worked for, and only because it had a noncommercial sound. We butted heads over how noncommercial that sound was going to be, and they paid pauper wages anyway, so I left. Became a player at WWOZ and was in fact the next-to-last voice on the air before Katrina hit and shut down that studio forever (they since built a new studio). Now I'm in the mountains of western NC, other than my own local microbroadcasting I did some shows from my home studio for WART-LP. Outside all of that I worked for decades doing corporate onsite recording -- a fascination that actually predates the radio stuff; I made my first reel-to-reel in 1958.
Anyway those are my lowlights.
I still DX, whether shortwave or hunting the occasional E-skip on VHF. I came here originally looking for ideas on elusive pirate or Franken-TV signals in this area that others might have heard. Especially interested in antennas and making one more efficient, signal processing etc.
73
