Comments on: Chinese Radios

By: BehindTheScenes

BehindTheScenes — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:16:57 +0000

You’re just assuming they’re going back home after they graduate…?

Used to listen to Radio Moscow (English Broadcasts) on an old Philco radio in my parents’ basement when I was about 12. Had to hold real tight to about a four-foot piece of frayed antenna wire to get it to come in clearly. Picked up “the Big 89″ WLS-Chicago in San Antonio in my car one night. Came in better than the local stations were.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:28:31 +0000

Check out Elvis’ video for that song on You Tube. After you see it tell me if you too think that the “Elvis singing in the jungle fauna” scene looks like he has a degenerative muscular disease and/or some sort of mental deficiency. The only thing missing is the drool coming out of his mouth. Its quite comical.

By: EJ

EJ — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:47:19 +0000

As a UIUC graduate, I couldn’t help but laugh reading about your observations of the “12%”. That’s the same number they reported when I was there from 97-01, and I swore then that the ratio was considerably north of 50%.

There’s NO WAY it’s only 12%!

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:01:42 +0000

Dave,

You know your New Wave. I don’t recall the Beaker Street show, it may have been ahead of time or maybe my transistor was too cheap.

John,

I read an article last year about the Chinese and their work in cloud seeding. The story focused on this old guy who was hired by the government to use his old cannon to shoot rain-making shells into the clouds. He reminded me of 5 O’Clock Charlie from MASH.

Thanks for commenting,
Dan

By: John

John — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:38:51 +0000

Dan-

According to today’s media reports re: the Summer Olympics, we don’t have to worry about Chinese nuclear attacks. They’re just going to modify the weather and knock us off the map with an army of tornadoes or something. Seriously, that weather modification thing to prevent rain from hitting the Summer Olympics is insane.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:11:09 +0000

By the way, they really don’t make AM radios anywhere near as good as they used to. I guess it’s understandable since we’ve all kind of moved to other bands (FM, satellite) and the internet.

Oh and I forgot above, the name of that show on KAAY was Beaker Street. Anyone else remember that? It had kind of a following around the midwest 30-some years ago.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:04:57 +0000

Trivia: Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe (without googling)

I used to listen to shortwave radio back in high school so my farthest away station would have been one in Perth, Australia. But if you are limiting it to the AM band, I could get KING out of Seattle at night sometimes. And there was one in LA I got once, but I don’t remember the call letters.

Also in high school in the mid ’70s, I used to listen to a progressive rock show on KAAY, Little Rock on a regular basis.