Interesting bit of kit

[Red Squirrel]

Do you mean radio stations promoting weird conspiracy theories about aliens, or radio stations run by aliens as part of their weird conspiracies?

Possibly both.

Seriously though it's really interesting the stuff you can pickup at night. I can pickup stuff all the way in the states sometimes if the weather conditions are right.

 

[Greenman]

Wasn't that a Tandy/Radio Shack branding thing?

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I mentally associate seeing that phrase on devices with Radio Shack branding.

I don't remember if it was from radio shack or not. Way to long ago.

 

[feralkid]

I haven't even seen the insane Trumphumpers who are trying to overthrow democracy and believe a gazillion conspiracy theories go after Warnock for being a racist. You got serious issues.

As far as the wacky right wing religious and racist radio shit in the South? I have no reason to doubt my buddy or my ex, and based upon my experience with what I've seen once Obama got elected and since especially, on all kinds of travels over the internet, I have every reason to believe it's pretty terrible. Everything from QAnon to Racist Neo-Nazis to the insane Evangelicals who give their money to these insane preachers, all loving the prezzie -all the pieces of the puzzle are right there. You couldn't pay me to live in the Deep South outside a decently sized city ever.

FM, too.

It is absolutely true, in remote western states as well. I regularly travel by car from the Southwest to the Midwest and can assure you that radio in the wide open spaces of Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, etc is all about God & Country, Guns 'n Trumpsters. (and they almost always ask for money for the cause). Better have satellite or some good digital media/podcasts to get you through.

If you ever start pulling in a Public Radio station, it means there is a college town in the vicinity.

 

[feralkid]

Possibly both.

Seriously though it's really interesting the stuff you can pickup at night. I can pickup stuff all the way in the states sometimes if the weather conditions are right.

It sure is. I always enjoy wilderness camping; sitting around a campfire at night listening to am stations hundreds of miles away. Almost eerie how far the signal will travel at night.

 

[JulesMaximus]

still have this in my garage....View attachment 35886

I had a CD player from the 1980s in my garage for decades (and it hasn't worked in decades) that my Dad gave to me as a Christmas present when I was in high school. Finally got rid of it a couple weeks ago while cleaning out the garage. I made a comment to my wife that my Dad gave me that CD player, it was like one of the first ones available commercially, but really I had no emotional attachment to it and it was just taking up space so away it went. We took it to an electronics recycling center.

 

[BoomerD]

Wasn't that a Tandy/Radio Shack branding thing?

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I mentally associate seeing that phrase on devices with Radio Shack branding.

Nah, solid state was the catch term for electronics made with semi-conductors...transistors and diodes...instead of tubes.

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[BoomerD]

It sure is. I always enjoy wilderness camping; sitting around a campfire at night listening to am stations hundreds of miles away. Almost eerie how far the signal will travel at night.

I lived in the mountains in eastern Nevada for almost two years. No TV, no radio stations except for the few you could "pick up on the skip."

 

[zinfamous]

How are you telling me that one of my best friends for over two decades didn't drive across the country? He absolutely loves traveling, mostly via road tripping. First time he did cross country we drove to Ohio to an Ekoostik Hookah festival, Hookahville. Six of us in two cars. After the festival three of us came back to Jersey, the three of them, including my good buddy and his brother, went cross country and back. That was 2005. They went from Ohio to Georgia and then all the way to Cali. Camped at mostly KWA's - roughly 2 nights camping then a motel to get civilized again. His name is Matt, do you want a sperm sample?

My ex, who just turned 42, grew up in Austin, minus 4-5 years as a kid when her dad worked in Germany, and went to college in Texas. She loves Austin. Just moved back there this year after 10 years in NYC due mostly to covid. She said the same thing, get too far outside Austin in the wrong direction, it can get scary. And that's not even the deep south.

I'm 45 now, but about 30 years ago I worked in Virginia Beach for a whole summer for my dad's cousin that owned a motel and a restaurant, his son was a few years older than me. We are all white. Virginia Beach is no deep south and it's not even rural. I never heard the N word so much in my life. And not the way rappers use it.

Get outside the cities in a lot of those areas, and it gets wack. I have no reason to doubt anything they've told me.

Shit. You got Trump supporters vandalizing black churches in DC and wearing shirts that say 6 million wasn't enough, in reference to the holocaust. And that's in DC in front of cameras. You are delusional. Of course you'd go after the one black Senate candidate. Go fucking figure.

you'll have to excuse highland. he, like many others, don't like being confronted with the unassailable fact that racism very much exists to this day, and is very, very concentrated in the deep south, and certainly on the radio. it's just true and plainly observable by anyone that cares to acknowledge it. The problem is that pointing out this plain truth is not an indictment on any one person (like highland), for whatever reason they choose to live where they live.

An inarguable fact of observational reality is simply what it is--a non-judgmental statement of truth. I know the south and the south for which he seems to think racism doesn't exist, and I don't think highland is correct...HOWEVER! as a fellow southerner I very much understand his initial response to defend "that which is ours" and only "we can properly understand!" You can't help it. I do it all the time.

I personally don't like such blanket claims about "all the south," but in many ways, it is also quite fair when you start considering the honest perspectives of people from outside the south--and those from within that aren't afraid to acknowledge it. There is a tendency among those in the south that don't really "get how anything works," to look at the world today, see that lynching doesn't really happen anymore, and tell themselves that there is no more racism. The end. It's all fixed! Obviously this is silly, but it defines how a lot of prideful southerners explain away their bias.

A lot of people think this way...despite how they actually speak with, joke with their friends, treat people in public, hold strong, life-long mental biases about groups of people that, quite unconsciously, determines their interactions with people. It's a hard nut to crack.

crazy nutbar religious AM stations can be found jsut about anywhere, however. Maybe "more" in teh south because more of it is rural but not as remote--say, as rural as a lot of the midwest and southwest and upper midwest are, while they have the same insanity on the radio, they are too remote to support the same amount of radio stations that you see in the south.

 

[MrSquished]

you'll have to excuse highland. he, like many others, don't like being confronted with the unassailable fact that racism very much exists to this day, and is very, very concentrated in the deep south, and certainly on the radio. it's just true and plainly observable by anyone that cares to acknowledge it. The problem is that pointing out this plain truth is not an indictment on any one person (like highland), for whatever reason they choose to live where they live.

An inarguable fact of observational reality is simply what it is--a non-judgmental statement of truth. I know the south and the south for which he seems to think racism doesn't exist, and I don't think highland is correct...HOWEVER! as a fellow southerner I very much understand his initial response to defend "that which is ours" and only "we can properly understand!" You can't help it. I do it all the time.

I personally don't like such blanket claims about "all the south," but in many ways, it is also quite fair when you start considering the honest perspectives of people from outside the south--and those from within that aren't afraid to acknowledge it. There is a tendency among those in the south that don't really "get how anything works," to look at the world today, see that lynching doesn't really happen anymore, and tell themselves that there is no more racism. The end. It's all fixed! Obviously this is silly, but it defines how a lot of prideful southerners explain away their bias.

A lot of people think this way...despite how they actually speak with, joke with their friends, treat people in public, hold strong, life-long mental biases about groups of people that, quite unconsciously, determines their interactions with people. It's a hard nut to crack.

crazy nutbar religious AM stations can be found jsut about anywhere, however. Maybe "more" in teh south because more of it is rural but not as remote--say, as rural as a lot of the midwest and southwest and upper midwest are, while they have the same insanity on the radio, they are too remote to support the same amount of radio stations that you see in the south.

Well I said that the wacky stuff starts to reveal itself when you get too far outside the cities from what I've been told by people that have been there, and what I see online. I don't think the whole Southern US is backwards at all or even close - I've been to Nashville (really fun cool place), Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, St. Louis, Atlanta and want to see more places, especially Austin (one of the fastest growing cities in the country) - but certainly once you get out of the populated areas the ratios seem to change dramatically. And you can find racism anywhere, just look at the birdwatcher guy in Central Park - I'm just talking about a concentration of it. And not just racism, but the hyper-religious evangelical population 'Armageddon is coming' wackadoos are concentrated in that region as well, hence why my buddy saw and heard a lot of that crazy religious stuff when driving through the Deep South rural areas - from billboards to the AM radio to just the conversations they had.