On Thursday evening, during the massive wind storm, we had the excessively delayed Amtrak train east of Fernley. We could hear the engineer through the scanner, but not the conductor on his hand-held radio, which was odd because normally we should have been able to hear both of them. Radio traffic during the storm was light, but we thought that was ( Read more... )

What used to be radio.com rebranded itself as Audacy earlier this year (and it's part of what was once was known as CBS Radio; aren't corporate takeovers and rebranding fun?), and I listen to KCBS news radio from the Bay Area in the mornings. Rather than just rebroadcasting the KCBS program, Audacy "local advertising from the advertisers of the ( Read more... )

Lisa put up the mast and wiring for the amateur radio antenna yesterday.

( Mount Up )

This morning we slept in a bit (which for me means 7 AM instead of 5 AM), had breakfast in the lounge, and packed out of the hotel room. The last took longer than expected because lots of other people were moving out at the same time and all of the luggage carts were in use. But we eventually got everything out of the room. Lodgecombing takes a lot ( Read more... )

When I arrived at the office today, I had two packages: An ICOM IC-2SA radio I purchased on eBay for Lisa (the one she'd been using as a white-noise source broke last week, which is Very Bad), and a box from the John Mansfield containing the innards of one of the home versions of Match Game. The home game isn't very much like the television game, ( Read more... )

F.P. Santangelo, former San Francisco Giant who was the host of KNBR radio's 7-10 sports-talk show (and a darn good one IMO) is moving on. He's taken a job as the color analyst for the Washington Nationals TV broadcasts. Congratulations to him, but I'll really miss him on the evening sports-talk on KNBR.

Yesterday afternoon after lunch, I needed to run to the post office to make sure a package posted that day, and as I got in the van I turned on KNBR's The Razor & Mr. T show, where Tom Tolbert was flying solo. He started off with talk about the World Cup that raised points about the officiating to which I wanted to respond, so I called the show and ( Read more... )

While closing out some of my tabs, I uploaded a brief video of the SeaPac Convention Floor showing one of the vendors demonstrating his rotating antenna mount. We later found that he was powering it off of a single 9V battery.

I have now uploaded lots more photos to my Seaside Photo Set, and I'll be calling out many of them in this post, so don't complain if you click through the cuts below. Today was a pretty good, and eventually pretty lucky day.

( Welcome to Sea-Pac )

I listen to KNBR sports radio a lot, including usually when I'm out for my afternoon walk. They have contests in the form of "caller X wins prize Y." While I was out this afternoon, I heard the sounder for the contest and reached for my phone, where I have their contest number on speed-dial. I am of course not the only person who has done that, ( Read more... )