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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 01:51 AM
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For DUers under 50: What are these???





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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 02:16 AM
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1. I will make a guess.
Something from your old radio show?
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 02:24 AM
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2. An endless loop broadcast cartridge, for ads, jingles & whatnot n/t
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 02:25 AM
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3. I was kind of close.
Yes I was.
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 02:31 AM
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4. Yup, you sure were :) I never worked commercial (as opposed to military) radio, but
I was master control for a couple of TV stations, so I recognized those - probably from industry mags or something.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 03:35 AM
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5. I've worked both commercial and public radio.
Those were my show carts for when I was at KPFT in the early to mid-90s :)

A lot of them I edited on my PC at home and transferred by cassette once I had some production-studio time. The last time I was at that station (a few years ago) everything was digital, which is good. KPFT is the local Pacifica station and they've needed those upgrades for a long time...

Even people that remember cassettes and reel-to-reel tape wouldn't know what those were, so it was a trick question
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 03:37 AM
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6. Though those that remember 8-tracks might have a better clue :) n/t
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 03:47 AM
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8. Sure, but it's still only 2-track
and usually no more than a five-minute loop. You couldn't fit much more tape in them than that.

The "fun" part with those things was when you had to repair them

Here's the wiki on the Fidelipac :)
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 03:48 AM
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10. :) Yup I meant generally in the sense of a push in cartridge & endless loop n/t
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 03:51 AM
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11. Sure, but they'd also be surprised at the size of a typical
"cart machine" :o
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AllenVanAllen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 04:06 AM
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12. I discovered KPFT 87' I love that station!



What a wonderful public service it is.

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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 04:14 AM
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13. And holding the national distinction of being bombed off the air,
not once, but twice, by none other than the KKK :o

I believe they still have the twisted hulk of one of those transmitters in their lobby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPFT
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AllenVanAllen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 04:30 AM
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14. The second bombing was worse than the first.


Nobody was hurt in those right?
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 04:36 AM
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15. No, the transmitter is at the antenna site.
It's unmanned, like all such transmitter towers. Although, when there is an equipment failure, there are people there, usually the station engineer and an assistant, but that's about it. The rest of the time they are locked up and pretty much self-sufficient :)
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 05:24 AM
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17. I so wanted to work at the mighty 90 back then.
Work got in the way.

I always pictured myself with my own show.

KPFT was a special back then.

I would go there alot and hang out.

You had a great radio program.

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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 05:35 AM
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18. You listened to my show?
Can you name it? ;)

Don't worry if you can't. But what did you think of the uncontrolled chaos of a "talk show"? :D
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 05:42 AM
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19. You were on late at night.
We already talked about it.

Was it something like Monster Island Beach Party.

It was fun uncontrolled chaos.

I know I have some of the shows a tape.

I taped a lot of the shows back then.

Late night, early morning was the best times to listen.

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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 05:53 AM
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20. Monster Island Beach Party was "Uncle Charlie's" show,
Thursday nights (early Friday morning) around 2:30 or three. I would sometimes hang out with him and Chuck Roast on before him with his dark-experimental music show. Then at 5am was "Wake Up and Smell the Coffee" with Jay Lee. I had other friends that did shows latenight on Fridays and early morning on Monday. Sorry if I don't remember us discussing this; some of it I remember and some I don't...

off to bed now so i can get up and go to the Turkish Festival with my belly dancer friends
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 05:59 AM
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21. Behave youself.
Have fun.

I worked two jobs and never slept.

KPFT kept me awake, trust me.

I will find the old tapes.
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AllenVanAllen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 03:27 PM
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24. I used to love all of those shows


even the dark-experimental show. I used to work night shift a lot and sometimes there wasn't much to do except listen to the radio sometimes. I used to call in and talk to the deejays sometimes. Once I got got into an on-air conversation about anime when Akira made it's American debut. I even competed in a Wake Up and Smell the Coffee T-shirt design contest. I sent in 6 entires and still didn't win!
I was a regular contributer back then too. I haven't in a while though. :(

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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 05:13 PM
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26. That was before the big take over that almost killed the station.
The station got a new station manager that was terrible.

Can't remember his name but all the good shows started to disappear.

The station hadn't be the same since.

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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 03:44 AM
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7. Uh...drink coasters?
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 03:47 AM
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9. Not if I ever want to send them to negativland
for their sound-collage uses
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 04:54 AM
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16. That's just gibberish to me...
Edited on Sun Oct-11-09 04:55 AM by Drunken Irishman
So I'll say they're those decorative bookends!
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moriah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:23 AM
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22. I had thought 8-tracks because of size and shape, but....
... there's not enough tape on those for an 8-track.

I never worked in radio (yes, I cheated and looked at other people's answers) so I wouldn't have guessed what they really were, but for a 29-year-old youngin' I think I came pretty close!
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 07:33 AM
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23. cart tapes
I worked as a DJ also.
106.7 Prescott.Get high with KFLI.
We used them for commercials and A-Rotations.
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 05:00 PM
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25. I used to hand-load the tape for those.
Some stations were that cheap. I also had a couple of vacuum tube cart machines, relics from an old station. PITA they were, especially for the morning news show.
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 05:19 PM
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27. We had cassette tapes. I miss those, never got scratched up.
8 tracks were before my time.
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