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Thursday, September 30, 2004
That's a hint 
| | Leatherwood Online - Tasmania's Journal of Discovery - was originally mapped out on the back of a business card. Seriously. |
Read it and drool
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Oldcasting
| | FCCinfo, from Cavell Mertz & Davis, rocks. I've been looking for something that provides graphical as well as textual engineering details about AM, FM and TV stations, ever since radiostation.com stopped returning results. (I'm told its perl code failed to keep up with changes in FCC data formats. Be nice if somebody stepped in to fix the problem, whatever it is. Also seems to me there's a case here for the FCC adding RSS feeds to its daily digests.) |
| | For example, here's the data on KGO, the San Francisco AM station that broadcasts from three towers (shown here after the Loma Prieta earthquake) at the east end of the Dumbarton Bridge in the South Bay (25 miles from downtown San Francisco). Above is the directional pattern the towers generate. The larger lobe points toward San Francisco, and the smaller lobe toward San Jose. At night the station's signal reaches up and down the West Coast. |
| | For all my faith that podcasting (now up to 526 finds on Google) will change the world, I'm too much of an old radio guy not to stay interested in the antiquated but sturdy engineering behind traditional terrestrial broadcasting. |
| | Bonus link: MIT's Radio-Locator site, which shows how KGO's directional pattern (above) looks in to listeners driving around California. |
Mocasting
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