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wish you would return to having the top markets as subjects for boards..

Theater of My Mind said:
The trouble with polls, and focus groups, is very often they put words into peoples mouths, or force them to make a choice that doesn't really reflect reality. And then you get the answer you wanted to see because the way it was presented steered their answers that way.
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Well said!
 
BarryATL said:
But can he read cursive?

If the boomers ever want to take over the world, just write the battle plan in cursive. It is our secret language. :cool::cool::cool:
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California stopped teaching cursive back in 2010, but just this year have started teaching it again.

www.bbc.com

California signs cursive writing into law – what are the brain benefits?

A new law requiring cursive to be taught in California schools went into effect at the start of this year. But does this style of handwriting have long to live on a global scale?
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secondchoice said:
When I was 7 or 8, I started collecting road maps from gas stations. IIRC Conoco had a listing for radio stations (AM) on the back side. I lost that box in one of my moves. Some states like ND, SD, and Wyoming didn't have that many stations listed. I been told that in the 1950's and 60's there where places on US highways you could drive for a hundred miles and not pick up radio station out west. In the 1970s if it wasn't for stations like the old WFFA and WBAP driving west of Weatherford TX on I20 could get lonely fast.
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I was doing that too. I have an old Texaco map of North and South Carolina which lists major AM radio stations and what network they belong to., Not sure what the point was because by that time, network radio wasn't really like network TV is today. They might have had news at the top of the hour.
 
secondchoice said:
When I was 7 or 8, I started collecting road maps from gas stations. IIRC Conoco had a listing for radio stations (AM) on the back side. I lost that box in one of my moves. Some states like ND, SD, and Wyoming didn't have that many stations listed. I been told that in the 1950's and 60's there where places on US highways you could drive for a hundred miles and not pick up radio station out west. In the 1970s if it wasn't for stations like the old WFFA and WBAP driving west of Weatherford TX on I20 could get lonely fast.
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Those listings, found on Rand McNally maps, tended to be very much out of date. Some of that was due to the fact that maps tended to sit around in gas stations for years at a time before someone picked them up.
 
Mark Roberts said:
Those listings, found on Rand McNally maps, tended to be very much out of date. Some of that was due to the fact that maps tended to sit around in gas stations for years at a time before someone picked them up.
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I had a couple of Uncles that were in the oil and gas well business that knew of my interest and picked them up for me. I was never was west of the Mississippi river until I joined the USAF. I had oil company roadmaps for just about every state except Alaska, Hawaii and Maine.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Abilene, Wichita Falls, Lubbok, Midland/Odessa, Sweetwater and lots and lots of small towns had stations in the 70's. Just look at a Broadcasting Yearbook from even the early 70's and you will find loads of stations.
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I didn't have scan on my 1968 Ford radio. There were preset buttons or you had to twist the tune knob. I found a few stations out there and they were playing country which was not my favorite at that time. The noise floors and ground conductivity were remarkable at that time, especially compared to Middle Tennessee. 570 went almost as far as Midland which is where I was heading.

Later this year I will have to fly to Abilene TX. Hopefully I won't have to spend the night! If I do spend the night I will rent a car and do some kind of DXing. It will be interesting to see how bad the noise floor is once you are out of sight of any street lights or electric lines.
 
Tuning back onto topic, I made bookmarks on my main computer and copied the bookmark file to my other machines for the top 20 markets and it works like a charm. Easier for me to find stuff.
 
Radiopaw said:
It’s been harder for me to enjoy the site since the changes admittingly. Radio is still very market based in my opinion.
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One potential problem that I see with going back to a focus on markets is that it's difficult to predict, outside of the top 25 markets or so, which markets are going to have enough happening to justify being broken out. I think the last thing Lance wants is to have a market be "hot" for a few weeks and then go dead for months at a time. Already, in California, I find that Sacramento may not qualify to even be a breakout under the main state header, based on posting. (About the only time there's any discussion there is when CapRadio has its latest crisis.)

I have taken the advice of several here and put those forums that I care about on Watch and then made my "watched" page the bookmark in my browser. If you haven't tried that, I totally recommend it.
 
K.M. Richards said:
One potential problem that I see with going back to a focus on markets is that it's difficult to predict, outside of the top 25 markets or so, which markets are going to have enough happening to justify being broken out. I think the last thing Lance wants is to have a market be "hot" for a few weeks and then go dead for months at a time. Already, in California, I find that Sacramento may not qualify to even be a breakout under the main state header, based on posting. (About the only time there's any discussion there is when CapRadio has its latest crisis.)

I have taken the advice of several here and put those forums that I care about on Watch and then made my "watched" page the bookmark in my browser. If you haven't tried that, I totally recommend it.
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On your point about market activity, sometimes even in the top 25 a market stabilizes so much there is no discussion to be had. One such market is San Francisco.

At least, im assuming that’s why the SF board has been a ghost town.

I’ll definitely set up and try the watched page sometime, that’s a fantastic feature if I can just replicate the former design to some extent!
 
Negin said:
Tuning back onto topic, I made bookmarks on my main computer and copied the bookmark file to my other machines for the top 20 markets and it works like a charm. Easier for me to find stuff.
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I did the same thing, but it's 2024, not 2010, forums need to be as lean and fast as social media.
 
Negin said:
I'm probably one of 29 peeps that shun the socials. No Fakebook or X or TickToc for me. Forums is as social I get! :D
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Count me in too!

I'm old enough to remember MySpace, and I never logged onto that, either.

If I want to be social, I call or text, head for a forum, or I do it the old-fashioned way and go to one of the local grocery or hardware stores!

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cc333 said:
Count me in too!

I'm old enough to remember MySpace, and I never logged onto that, either.

If I want to be social, I call or text, head for a forum, or I do it the old-fashioned way and go to one of the local grocery or hardware stores!

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I don't need to share everything with everybody! I have friends who are into computers, others into gardening, radio, boating or politics, etc. But those are all separate conversations. No need to dump them into one bucket.
 
Facebook lasted me about 4 DAYS!! I kept getting stuff from people I'd never even HEARD of!!
My original intent was to set up a page for my Part 15 station....but things got bogged down in BS,,,so I got out!!
No regrets being rid of it!! Never again!!:(
 
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