Re: my Hornet progress...

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 08:15, farna@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Nice page! The computer/stereo is interesting, but will you have 
> a tuner? FM card in the computer??

FM radio to me is totally dead. It's a terrible shame, I love radio as a
medium but it's gone total crap. Automated stations 100% market driven.
When Pres. Reagan deregulated radio station ownership it caused a direct
slide into sterile corporate profiteering, ruining a national treasure
-- money money money. I'll have AM reception, and monaural FM, when I
install my Icom 706 (I'm KF6QFI, amateur Extra, but haven't operated in
years.)

(There used to be severely restrictive rules on station ownership, such
as 7 year min. ownership before sale, etc, all intended to prevent
EXACTLY what has happened to radio. It's criminal.)

AM is still OK in places; KCBS here in SoCal is OK for what it is,
pretty fair, high quality news and info.

KTNN (The Navajo Nation Network) is my FAVORITE!!!! AM radio station.
660KHz AM (http://www.ktnnonline.com/), one of the U.S. clear channel
stations (eg. unshared freq. for some huge distance). Hopi, Navajo
music, old country, local stuff, national news. A bit rough around the
edges, just like actual people. I get it all along I40 through AZ into
NM. Announcers speak Navajo mainly, an amazing language to listen to
(and due to it's rigorous technical and artistic structure, a major
source of American WWII radio security -- read about "Code Talkers" --
Japanese never cracked it!).