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Paul Harvey

admin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:28:21 +0000

Paul Harvey Aurandt (1909-2009). Radio broadcaster. Deceased.

Recordings, books and broadcasts

Libraries are a good source of recordings and books by Harvey. The classic Paul Harvey book is The Rest of the Story, full of the stories from his broadcasts. He put out some records, too, and some of the older records are hard to find, such as Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor.

There was a 2007 effort by a fan to get Harvey’s broadcasts streaming online. And there are some recordings online, too:

Speech by Paul Harvey, “In God We Trust” (flash required).

Zipped mp3 of “The Brave Light That Won’t Go Out,” one of Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story” broadcasts.

There’s a collection of Paul Harvey’s on the air endorsements for Rianni tankless water heaters from 2006.

A few Paul Harvey airchecks. Try the various aircheck archives, especially ReelRadio and Rock Radio Scrapbook.

Spymob has an mp3 song from 1996 called “Paul Harvey” (99 cents to own).

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An mp3 search for PH airchecks.

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RIP

“The End of the Story”

“Paul Harvey, Good Night”

“Good day, Mr. Harvey

“Paul Harvey’s singular voice falls silent”

Be sure to read Al Peterson’s personal note on Mr. Harvey’s passing.

Statements on his passing. Obit. Guest book.

More Paul Harvey fun

Don’t miss the Paul Harvey morph: view his image from high school to the end of his life. Other good Tulsa memories and photos here, too.

For further reference

DXing

admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:37:43 +0000

DXing is the art of picking up, tuning in and listing to far-off radio stations. The “D” is for distance; the “X” is the unknown. DXers sometimes contact remote stations they pick up for reception reports; some collect the QSL cards that are sent in return.

Some of the major sites for DXing:

DXZone is the huge site with directories and links.

DXing.com

dxing.info has an article to read, “Introduction to DXing”

hard core DX

Glenn Hauser’s DX Listening Digest

Amateur radio and DX guide

Huge directory: SHORTWAVE, LONGWAVE, DC TO DAYLIGHT

Shortwave

An Introduction to Shortwave Radios for Newbies

John Wagner’s Shortwave Tips & Tricks

Amateur and Shortwave Radio Command Center

The NASWA WWW Shortwave Listening Guide is a searchable database.

Web-controlled shortwave radio

“The Shortwave Numbers Mystery” describes a weird phenomenon that has been noticed on shortwave radio since the mid-’70s and has never been solved.

Other bands and frequencies

Beacon DXing: picking up nautical and aircraft beacons, oil and gas platform beacons, and so on.

DXing “downstairs” with Longwave DXing (frequencies below 500kHz)

Discussion groups

One of the best forums for radio is radio-info.com where boards exist for various genres, markets and cities, and types of radio.

There’s also the old Usenet group, rec.antiques.radio+phono

For further reference

Illustrated article, “The Evolution of Radio” by The Schenectady Antique Radio Club.

If you want to get a reference book, get “The Comprehensive Guide to the World of DXing”.

DIY Radios

admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:57:04 +0000

Instructions for building quick & easy household radios, an AM transmitter, threepenny radios

Aircheck collecting

admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:10:23 +0000

DecaloMania is the main club for radio aircheck collectors.

Aircheck archives

The “original” radio aircheck site is ReelRadio.

There’s nearly 5,000 airchecks spanning decades in the searchable manfrommars.com database.
Airchecks also exist at the Good ol’ Days Olt-Time Radio site.

One search term for finding old broadcasts is “old-time radio” (OTR). RadioLovers.com is the most popular OTR site out there.

Brainwash

admin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:20:34 +0000

Was a late-80s early-90s Cleveland radio legend when WCSB DJ Steve Wainstead would play the Flipper song “Brainwash” (with all its like, and then uh, I dunno, seven or eight words of lyrics) and take live calls on the air; the caller would speak, rant or otherwise make noise, sometimes with random confusion until finally cut off, the song went back on — and this would continue hypnotically for minutes and minutes every night, addictive to both listen to and take part in. [history]

Some people out there made airchecks of this stuff and now you can get it on the nets. Get an MP3 (circa 1988) from Wainstead’s (hopefully growing) online archive of shows.

The first WCSB broadcast from the Cole Center Thurs. 10/16/08 was Brainwash

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