Show Notes - Tech This! 06/02/06

In the 9pm CT hour we play the Bob Cooper interview
A link he mentions is:


http://www.bobcooper.tv



Bob is looking for Shawn Kenney and Yellow Rain stuff.

Show Notes - Tech This! 05/12/06

Light on the notes sorry,

Neat cams up on http://www.camstreams.com

We found one that does ham and ATV and
did a presentation on Tesla, it was at:

http://wb9kmo.camstreams.com


A automated number to help you program scanners:

937-395-1456 (LD rates apply)

Show Notes - AfterSW 04/23/06

Midnight CT


Lester calls in to talk blind issues, etc.
Also mentions a blind friendly audio player.

Funk In The Trunk

http://www.blindsoftware.com/program_detail.asp?id=10


We mention a Part 15 site at http://www.part15.us

Show Notes - Tech This! 04/21/06

8:oo Pm CT - Midnight CT

We start with John Draper aka Captain Crunch.

He is working with White Phone

http://www.whitephone.com


http://www.crunchtv.net


he is working on an antispam program called
Spamcrunchers. (Poss not for public)


Other links mentioned:



http://www.shadowserver.net


http://www.honeynet.org


http://www.webcrunchers.com



We also tracked Byron going to Chicago
at http://www.flightaware.com


Getting email from Yahoo via Pop is possible for free:


http://www.ypopsemail.com


Wow, the new cat came out of hidding, yaay.



We even get a call from Rod Hewitt! ;)

http://www.coolstf.com



Thanks All.


=END=

Show Notes - Tech This! 04/14/06

We talk with the Analog Anarchist.

We talk about power, off the grid, satellite and more.


At some point a question comes in regarding f/d ratios

here is a link to help:

http://www.chaparral.net/support/trouble/feedhorn.html

Aristotle points out this URL:

http://www.bigdish.info/mainten/lfocal.html


We mentioned Deep Dish TV, Lynne mentions:

http://www.deepdishtv.org/


Some links regarding this alt energy topic:


http://www.otherpower.com/

http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_wind_tips.html


TeckSavant posted this link:

http://www.green-trust.org/


OK i read a story on Dlink and NTP:

http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink/



Ok here is the picture, if your easly offended do not scroll down farther
or scroll fast to get past ;)

Show Notes - Tech This! 04/08/06

Here are some links from Tech This:

http://www.mkaku.org/


http://www.geraldschroeder.com/new.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Dilation


Movie Sneakers 1992:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9c25lYWtlcnN8ZnQ9MXxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8Y289MXxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1

Show Notes - After SW 04/02/2006

8 dot braille got a mention.

Heres the info:

http://deafandblind.com/8-dot_braille.html


And yes time to change those clocks ahead 1 hour!
Unless you are in an area that doesn't ;)

Also check those smoke detector batts.

Our friend Rachel has a problem:

Long story made short, I accessed my new 400 GB drive
with the Braille Note last night and now it's unreadable
by my computer.

It may of changed the format from NTFS to FAT32?
or writen some other stuff to the drive?

If you have an idea, please let us know.

Show Notes Tech This! 03/31/2006

8:00 PM CT

Welcome to the show.

We talk about radio, like LPFM and part 15 etc.

Tom reads from Radio World.

We talk more about radio and digital.


9:00 PM CT

Tom reads more articles, one on DARPA stuff.

We talk about Electric and Hybrids and Solar.
Alex calls in on this.

A lot of talk on magnets as well.

Show Notes After SW 03/26/2006

We talk a lot about Buck Owens and other music.

Our friend Johnny Potash calls in, he is a good singer.


http://home.earthlink.net/~fiddlinman/


We play some Matt Arthur

Hes at:

http://www.mattarthur.net/

Show Notes Tech This! 03/24/2006

8:00 PM CT

WTND is back on the AIR on 106.3 FM.
We went on air around 6:30 pm CT Friday.

We talk about:
Illegal radio broadcasts interfering with airline pilots in Miami.

Heres the link


Hackers Get Windows XP on Apple Computers


A little talk on BPL

comment from IRC

[rec_DIA] BPL has too much political influence.. unfortunately,
the FCC is very slided by industry and "modern" technology.


Also this story and a discussion:

Morse Code in danger of disappearing


9:00 PM CT

Blair calls in and asks about Firefox and the scroll wheel.
A prob of scrolling up and it makes go back instead of scroll.

He says it works fine in Netscape.


AA calls in mentions some tubes glow purple, those are harsh.

Don calls in, good news for him, his HD was recovered 100%

Lynne calls in, she got a Media Center PC, had some questions.


We talk about Free wireless in towns and cities

Link to Story

www.muniwireless.com


10:00 Pm CT

Tom talks about some stuff, more on WTND and the Rally.

Darryl reads about Apple's 30th Aniv.

I read this:

Internet Phone Start-Ups Look Past Low Prices


Darryl talks about movies and downloads.


11:00 PM CT

General chit chat


Justices Reach Out to Consider Patent Case


Brad calls in and talks about ACARS:

[A]ircraft [C]ommunication [A]ddressing and [R]eporting [S]ystem
is a digital data link system transmitted via VHF radio which allows
airline flight operations departments to communicate with the
various aircraft in their fleet.

More at:

http://www.acarsd.org/

A great place to track planes live at:

http://flightaware.com

Show Notes - After SW 03/19/2006

12:00 AM CT

Lester asks about a program to normalise MP3's.
Dave Marthouse suggests MP3 Gain.

http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/


A question of MySQL comes up.
I mention a suite that you can run a MySQL and Web:


http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html



1:00 AM CT


Keao calls in and mentions a new program that allows you to
download audio and also chat, here is the info:

http://search.mercora.com/

(We dont know anything about this!)


We talk a little about BBSs like GEnie and others.


We caution DO NOT get the program Audio Magic, its a virus!



We even talk about The Cinnamon Bear, heres some info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_bear

Show Notes Tech This! 03/17/2006

8:00 PM CT

We start and mention St Patricks Day. ;)
-of course Irsh food talk breaks out.

We take about Removal of satellite dish angers homeowner.

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/WestVolusia/wvlWEST01031206.htm


We also read an article called Radio waves create mixed signals,
about a couple that has radios CAPABLE of transmitting on
PD/FD freqs so they are already presumed guilty.


A question of ham HTs that are workable for the blind came up, we like the Kenwood TH F6A
also Byron mentioned this site: http://www.icanworkthisthing.com

Also Rec of RECNET made a fake NAL for Blair lol: http://www.recnet.com/fun/alper_nal.pdf


9:00 PM CT


We play a couple Media Minutes. They are at http://www.freepress.net/mediaminutes


We get a call from Eric @ Darker Projects http://www.darkerprojects.com

The have cool fanfic and original audio drama.



We read some of RECs Blog regarding fines:
http://blog.recnet.com/


We also talk about banks and how they hold your money, grrr.



10:00 PM CT


A discussion about root beer and tea breaks out.


Renee from IRC passes on these links for reference:

http://www.herbalremedies.com/sassafras-1.html

http://www.sassafrastea.com/sassfacts.htm



We also talk about Green River soda:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_River_(soft_drink)


Also a talk about sound and Bose radios.

Comment from IRC re the new HD radio:
[Ralf] The new Boston HD radio sucks!


Don also talks about pressure cookers, and one thats blind friendly:

Its avail at QVC, info at http://www.euro-pro.com


The Analog Anarcist from Maine called in to ask
about a signal at 89 deg on C band,

We found a DVB signal at 4115 H there, thanks to:

http://www.lyngsat.com/ia8.html



Byron talks about State of Illinois benifits for older
and disabled people heres a site on it:

http://www.state.il.us/aging/



11:00 PM CT


We talk about HF and sw, a pirate on 6925 USB from Brad.

Also mention online tuner. http://www/dxtuners.com


We play some Irish tunes. ;)

Show Notes Tech This! - 12/16/05

Alex calls in and mentions a shareware program that allows you
to modify a font for window, its called Softy.

Just do a search for it.

Alex notes on his wind up radio that 30 secs of winding gives 12 mins.


EPIC mentions National ID card and REAL ID act.

http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/


SPLOP:

Crush a Box of Vanilla wafers (for bottom of pan)
In bowl mix:
Cool Whip (whipped topping) room temp
add 2 blocks of cream cheese.
(1 tub of cool whip per 2 blocks of cream cheese)
1 cup of powdered sugar.
1 cup of milk (roughly)

mix VERY well and smooth!
add 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla

when mixed, pour on top of the vanilla wafers in pan.
then on top of that cover it with pudding or pie filling. (not hot)
make sure its covered and smooth.

let sit in cold area / refrig for 24 hours.

Enjoy.

Gary Tribute Podcast

A Gary B tribute was on Skybird and C Band Talk
the podcast is avail here:

http://ziggydog.libsyn.com


Tech This also did a Gary B tribute, it will be avail on our archives.

Archives

Show Notes - Tech This! 11/04/05

8:00 pm CT

We start and say hi.

Steph calls in, asks a little about LPAM so we talk about that.

http://www.lpam.ws


She also gives a new house report.


9:00 pm CT

Steph continues with us.

We talk about comedy and Weird Al a little.

Also Eric in Mass points out a site that mentions songs NOT by AL.

http://free.house.cx/~eil/etc/notal_list.html


10:00 pm CT

We are talking about motherboards.

Couple links from IRC:

http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/index.html


http://www.motherboards.org


http://www.motherboards.org/articles/tech-planations/1_1.html


How to build a PC:

http://www.motherboards.org/articles/guides/924_1.html


Motherboard buying tips

http://www.motherboards.org/articles/guides/15_1.html



11:00 pm CT

We mention the RV incident where we took down the overhead
phone lines by accident.

Cute pic by REC:

http://www.recnet.com/wtnd_rv_phoneline.jpg



Also some mention of alt power

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/hackleman55.html



=END=

Show Notes - Tech This! 10/28/05

8:00 pm CT

Some talk about radio, mainly Chicago radio.

We also talk about TV Ch 6 and use for radio.

http://www.lpfm.ws/news/channel6.php


9:00 pm CT


Talk about Beaker street happened.

TreasureDude from IRC mentioned a link to get some:

http://beakerstreet.com/MPEG/mpegs.htm


More talk about radio, lack of easy way to put callers on air, when they had to it was sometimes clipping leads on to the phone to patch the audio.


We mention and are sad on the passing of Bumper Morgan (DJ/Voice over talent)


TnD start talking about turntables and tone arms.

From the IRC:

Brad: hmm I have a Shure tonearm, not a woodgrain one but one of the black plastic heads on an S-arm, it's kinda OK but NOT my SME that's on my Fons TT.


Brad: oh a knockoff of the Thorens Transcription TT

Ralf: Dual turntables were "prosumer" quality before "prosumer" was invented

Brad: yea the Dual TTs, at least the lower level ones were rim-drive


Heres a link from Eric in Mass.

http://www.elac.com/en/index.html


From IRC:

George T: Ever had a turntable where the cartridge would pick up hum from the motor

Brad: that's a sign of a bad ground coming out of the cart


Brad's Shellac Shanty site is stil there with good restoration hints:

http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/


Brian in CA mentions a program thats for restoring audio called Quick Fix.


George-T: You shoulds check out Lyle Cartridges in Valley Stream, NY for cartridge stuff


10:00 pm CT


Brian in CA mentions a cable or adaptor to take a IDE hard drive to USB then just plug it in.

Continue with some hard drive talk.


More talk on archiving, larger drives, etc.

Will this stuff last? Will there be a machine that can play it?

If its stored electronicly heres a question from Brian:

Brian one fat EM pulse, and the thumb drive is toast.


Alex (Macomb) checks in, he notes how a lot of cheap solar calculators need a lot of power to start up and he used his key ring red led light and it powered the solar calc, neat.


11:00 pm CT

Alex mentions a program for dos called XMSDSK a ramdisk that doesnt have the 32mb size.
We know it works in DOS and WIN98, not sure and doubt on XP or NT.


Lynne asks is better to buy a prebuilt or have one built. Thats a big debate but overall we like the idea to have one built.



=END=

Show Notes - Tech This! 10/21/05

8:00 pm CT

We start with High Tech Redneck.

We mention DISH dumping OLN.

Tom reads a article on a $100 laptop, maybe even a crank for power?

Matt calls in and asks the question "What about blind and disabled?"


Lester calls in, points out how anoying it is that they
keep making new versions of programs, and sometimes
they no longer work with JAWS, or they make old versions just stop working when they were fine anyway.


9:00 pm CT

We play TGIF by Lonestar

Barb calls in mentions a new cell phone thats for blind.
Has no screen but talks.

Owasys 22C

http://www.screenlessphone.com


We mention Openoffice and other ways to write and edit
text and doc files. Sometimes theres format
incompatabilites between OpenOffice and MS Office.

Brian (from CA) also recomends Abiword (free)

http://www.abiword.com



10:00 pm CT

Its Mac and Cheese talk here on TT.

Some like it just that way, others like stuff added like meat, veggies, etc.

Alex sugests water chestnuts.

Alex also uses Wordperfect and even MS Works 2.0 for DOS.
Hey it works for him.



11:00 pm CT

This from REC :

***BREAKING NEWS -- LOW POWER AM HAS BEEN GIVEN AN RM NUMBER FROM THE FCC... COMMENTS ARE BEING TAKEN ON RM-11287

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-261702A1.pdf


Also Duane mentioned the Urbana WRFU barnraising Nov 11-13th

We will try and be there.

More at:

http://www.prometheusradio.org/urbana


Alaina calls in, asks about "TV Be Gone" ;)

Show Notes - Tech This! 10/14/05

8:00 pm CT

TnDnB briefly talk about the trip to Baltimore.


Blair mentions a place to get WIFI antennas

http://fab-corp.com/


We mention Bill Cosby has been handed http://www.fatalbert.org


We talk about HTML in email, overall its bad idea, for blind people as well makes email slower and can harbor web bugs.


Byron mentions a flash demo of the Mac that runs in a web browser:

http://www.yanathin.com/ifizzle.html


A Mac IRC client: http://www.snak.com



9:00 pm CT


A blind friendly IRC client at http://www.mbmhelp.com/dload_dir/bofhnetirc.exe


We mention the station in Texas thats TRYING to do 2 sports games at once 1 in left and 1 in right, and its ok on net feed but not on air.

KSHN FM and on web at mms://24.173.184.10:8080


Alex calls in mentions his clock that gets WWVB and works in his trailer.


A demo of Linux on the web at http://www.workspot.net/cgi/demo.cgi


Had a call from Jerry from Englewood, FL. Asked about the accordian.


Scotty's remains will be launched into space Dec 6th, Live Long and Prosper.


We mention Firefox and accessability/alt tags and JAWS.

from chat:

Brian says Firefox does *not* render alt= tags as tooltips

Blair says alt tags are meant for when you don't load images or are
using an imageless browser

Bill Reif says Version 5.5 of Window-Eyes is supposed to support the Firefox browser, including alt tags.


10:00 pm CT


Byron mentions the new Winamp now supports 5.1 surround and AAC.


We talk about searches and indexing.

Bill Reif says The Winamp library also searches for text in the meta tags, which Windows Search does not. Sometimes the filename doesn't reflect the name of the song.


We talk about the built in magic mix thing in new the new Winamp.

We mention the Wookie "Peter Mayhew" Actor becoming an American.


11:00 pm CT

TnD play the Liver makes me quiver song.

more food talk and liverwurst.

We mention a Canada station 1270 CHAT in Medicine Hat, AB. Cool letters.

Played: Like a River by Kasey Chambers

Played: Centerfieild by John Fogerty

Played: Leaving NY by REM


Blair called in via Skype on his Pocket PC, cool.

Show Notes - Sun Morn 05/29/05

12:00 AM CT

Dave Marthouse send us a link regarding a new Motorola HT thats
digital and in 900 mHz:

http://www.motorola.com/governmentandenterprise/northamerica/en-us/public/functions/browseproduct/transnavone.aspx?navigationpath=id_803i/id_1388i

check for DTR550 and DTR650.


Jay Spell calls in and asks where he can find radio from New Zealand
here is a listing we found:

http://www.enzed.com/rad.html

1:00 PM CT

Joe calls in and talks about a ham working with good quality ESSB:

http://www.nu9n.com

Show Notes - Tech This! 05/13/2005

8:00 Pm CT

Byron mentions theres a new version of Ipodder that is accessable but
the new release is NOT.

We play the Planetary Radio Star trek Interview.

http://www.planetary.org/radio


9:00 Pm CT

Barb calls in with Dayton food information.

We mention Radio Go Daddy has a Kevin Mitnick Interview:

http://tinyurl.com/88oxw


We mention WABC will do a tribute and play music and airchecks on
Memorial Day May 30th 6am-6pm ET.

http://www.wabcradio.com


We talk about the lack of Tv Ch 1 and Ch 37.

also other TV stuff:

http://www.chicagotelevision.com


10:00 PM CT

Dave Marthouse calls in to talk more TV, esp transatlantic TV.


Dave mentions a recreation of a FM radio station from the Alpine tower
that Armstrong used, will be on 42.80 mHZ and the net, will be around
June 11-13th time frame.

http://cscmgt.com more info on it.

http://www.qsl.net/w2xmn for more info on Armstrong.


11:00 PM CT

Dean calls in and mentions IBOC and how bad it sounds (the hash on AM)
The analog audio sounds like crap when a station is on IBOC due
to audio rolloff at 5k.

WCCO audio was bad so they turned it off!

We also mention the NASA digital feeds comming.


Ok, this is crap, a blind guy buys a talking meter from Omega, its broken
and he says it needs to be fixed but Omega says they wont give him another
as he is blind and they don't want blind people to use it:

http://www.omega.com/pptst/HHM2A-IR.html

This From THEIR web site:

THIS PRODUCT IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE BY THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED.
SUCH USE COULD RESULT IN SERIOUS INJURY SUCH AS ELECTRIC SHOCK.

Show Notes - Tech This! 04/29/2005

8:00 PM CT - 11:00 PM CT

We talk Asterisk, we are teleconferenced with Mark Spencer and others.

Here are some links mentioned on and off air:

http://www.asterisk.org

http://www.digium.com

http://www.asteriskdocs.org

http://www.voip-info.com

http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net

http://www.knopsterisk.com/

Using Asterisk for ham radio/2-way radio:
http://www.zapatatelephony.org/app_rpt.html


Other Links:

http://www.sineapps.com/news.php?rssid=403

Show Notes - Tech This! 04/22/2005

8:00 PM CT

Chris calls in to give a report on the Archos amplified external mic.
He likes it, it seems to work good and has decent seperation.

Barb gives us the contact info at Apple regarding Tiger OS X 10.4
that deals with accessablity.

The contact person is Mary Beth Janes. She deals with Apple for
visually impaired people. She also has information about the new software.
Phone (408-974-3215)
E-mail: mjanes@apple.com

9:00 PM CT

Darryl plays New York Rocked My Radio.

Eric in MA gives us this URL: http://www.wolfmanjack.org/



10:00 PM CT

We have Brian from CA call in and we talk audio processing.

We also talk about Digital Rights Management and audio files, uggg.

We alos talk old radios and tubes.

11:00 PM CT

Duane read a story, its poss the Nation Weather Service through a bill
in Congress S. 786 might charge for its weather data.

Chris the uplinker calls in, we talk about finding and scrounging dishes.

Show Notes - Tech This! 04/15/2005

8:00 PM CT

We play the Jamie Brocket Titantic song (Edited) (4/14/1912 was Sinking)

We talk about the new FCC FM Freq Auction.

Click here for PDF on what freqs are available.


We talk about the "new" stupid bankruptcy laws that will hurt the "working poor"
more then before, will benifit the rich.

Don calls in, also talk about trains some.


9:00 PM CT

Chris (Peterson) called in and mention Mac OS 10 (new Tiger) will
be out April 29th.

Chris mentions Archos makes a stereo portable mic that has a built in amp
for recording with an Archos. (yaay)

http://www.archos.com/products/prw_100878.html


Chris mentions you can get podcast audio now from Universe Today
put http://universetoday.com/audio.xml into your Ipodder or other RSS.


We mention Audacity a free open source audio editor.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/



Chris compares his Muvo mp3 player with his Archos.


We again talk about Rockbox, a way to make an Archos talk.

http://www.rockbox.org


10:00 Pm CT

We continue with Chris Peterson.

George (W2XBS) of TWIAR calls in, we talk about his mp3 player
Radio Your Way, it does do AM as well as FM but records at only 16 and 32k.


11:00 Pm CT

We continue to have George Bowen on for a while.

Jay Spell calls in he found a noise/data burst on 220.66, what is it??

also a pirate in So Cal weekends 96.9 KDJZ clean signal, sounds proff.

also a neat music site http://www.beachshag.com


Jay and TnD get into a discussion on recording companies and artists.

Show Notes - Tech This 04/08/2005

8:00 PM CT

We welcome W0KIE back to C Band, same spot in the sky, new uplink.

We have Chris call in, talk about computers, Linux/BSD and more.
And new computer chips.

9:00 PM CT

We continue talking with Chris, talkign about bad vs good text to speech.

I read part of the NPRm from the FCC. (Doing away with analog?)


88. Accordingly, we propose prohibiting analog video transmissions, unless one or more
commenters makes a convincing case that analog video transmissions are necessary, and a detailed technical study that provides a sufficient basis for an analog video off-axis EIRP envelope.

Here is the Complete PDF from the FCC

10:00 PM CT

We continue talk about this, also Sam the uplinker calls in.

11:00 PM CT

Its uplinker nite again, Chris calls in.

Duane mentions a Knoppix/Live Linux CD distro

geared for hams called Hamshack Hack.

http://hamshack-hack.sourceforge.net/

Show Notes - Sun Morning 03/13/05

12:00 AM CT

Barb calls in regarding the conference near her, more info at:

http://www.csun.edu/cod

Later on we have a nice long call from Keao from Hawaii.

Show Notes Shortwave 03/12/2005

11:00 PM CT

We have the regular line up:

- Dishnut News
- Spacereport
- Bob w/sports report

We run the Leo Laporte commentary on privacy.

http://www.leoville.com/blog/


=END=

Show Notes - Tech This 03/11/2005

8:00 PM CT

We start with a song called "Millers Cave" by Bobby Bare regarding
the shooting in Atlanta, GA. Then read a article.

Byron reads an article regarding a POTS codec for broadcasting.

Also talked about phone lines how to diagnose audio problems.

I mention the request to FCC to freeze translator apps to sort the mess out.


9:00 PM CT

Tom reads an article on poscasting.

Byron read an article on analog broadcasting. (from Radioworld)

Bob calls in, also they talk about the Sirius portable units.


10:00 PM CT

Rick from Madison calls in, yes its the Sirius Stream Jockey
that may not be blind friendly, more as needed.

Rick mentions the Cameo Parkway "Story" is about to come out (May 3rd)

We also mention Chris LeDoux's passing. http://www.chrisledoux.com

We play several of his songs as a tribute.

We talk about the German tech show, more info at http://www.cebit.de

Barb calls in metions a tech show in Northridge, CA.


11:00 PM CT

We find out that comedian Dave Alan died at 68.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1436142,00.html?gusrc=rss

Don calls in, hes thinking of buying a laptop, wants more info on one
and good small speakers.

You can email him at: don.gilmore@comcast.net


Don mentions a cute station on shoutcast, go to http://www.shoutcast.com
and search for boot liquor radio.

Alex calls in, we talk about the fact some flashing lights and monitor fliker
affects people, some with eppilpsy.

Show Notes Shortwave 03/05/2005

11:00 PM CT

We start with a quick hi and on to the shortwave news by the Dishnuts.

then a quick sports report by Bob Greenberg.


We have Jeff from Macomb on, he took a trip to Cambodia.

He has posted some pics on line, heres the link:

http://mallard.dishnuts.net/~dxkitty/

or

http://tinyurl.com/5wnxf

=END=

Show Notes Tech This 03/04/2005

8:00 Pm CT

Martin Denny passed away we start with "A Quiet village" by Martin Denny.

We are joined on the show by Ralf from Gulfport, MS.
He is an uplinker by trade.

We talk about the "Captain Midnight" subject.

Heres a link from Pat: http://www.macdougallelect.com

We talk about how more uplinking is going KU and digital, some also fiber.

Still can find analog on SBS-6.

We drift and talking about digital tv and radio, and the fcc.


9:00 PM CT

Ralf continues with us. We talk about some of the scrambling systems like
Oak, VC1 and VC2.

We talk a little about Shaun Kenny and "Yellow Rain" / Boresight.


10:00 PM CT

Ralf is still with us, talking uplinking and more.

We mention "hamburg" and the hamburger. info from Wikioedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger

The talk continues, clay calls in.

We also get into VSATs C and KU band.

Dave Marthouse calls in.

11:00 PM CT

Wow its more uplink and sat talk, we get a call from an uplinker in VA Chris.


=END=

Show Notes Shortwave 02/26-27/2005

11:00 Pm CT

Joe from PA calls in and asks about Zonealarm,
how to change program persmisions. It is in program clontrol.


Duane mentions a site for radio info at http://www.radiointel.com

Also you can still get DRM decoding software at http://www.drmrx.org

Show Notes Tech This! 02/25/2005

8:00 PM CT


Darryl reads an article from EFF regarding the stupid broadcast flag.

http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_02.php#003356



9:00 PM CT

We end up getting into Microsoft and its auto updating SP2 and also
how you can turn off uneeded programs in services in MSCONFIG.


Tom mentions Ken R. is retiring from making radio jingles.



Duane reads an article regarding Florida Athletic Univ wanting to do radio
they had lost there FCC license a few years. (funny too)

http://universitypress.collegepublisher.com/news/2005/02/17/CoverStory/Fighting.For.Airwaves-867613.shtml


10:00PM CT

More talk about Windows messager and MSN messager (there is a difference)
It also appears the Microsoft has turned off older version of MSN meeager and
this is a problem for those using older version esp blind people whose scripts
do not work with the new version.

Don Gillmore calls in and mentions Yahoo has anti-spam codes, but IS able
to be used by blind people. Good going Yahoo.

Don also mentions Freecycle. (Which we have mention before)
They have groups all over the world, here is their site:

http://www.freecycle.org


Byron reads an article on Jaws and using it:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/s2s/latest/jaws1/home/docs.shtml

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/s2s/latest/jaws1/home/index.shtml



George Antunes calls in regarding the MSN security problem, here is a link
to more information (ms5-009):

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS05-009.mspx



11:00Pm CT



Tom reads an article on HD radio/IBOC.

Duane reads an article Broadcasters To Take FCC to Court Over Indecency.

http://billboardradiomonitor.com/radiomonitor/news/business/leg_reg/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000809328


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Show Notes Shortwave 02/20/2005

11:00 pm CT

We start with a modifed opening by Darryl.

We play the Dishnut News (SW Edition) then The Space Report

We have our sports guy Bob Greenberg on, nope looks like no NHL agreement.

Propagation of WBCQ is not too bad this week.


=END=

Show Notes Tech This! - 02/18/2005

8:00 Pm CT

We start a little late due to a problem.

We got an email from Kenny in GA, he metions we should try out Free World Dialup (FWD) instead of Skype, we think it would be an addition to not instead of.

We also talk about VOIP, FWD and Asterisk and IP phones.

Byron metions a new W0KIE comment line 206-339-8876 for W0KIE shows.

Darryl reads an article about hacking/cracking using RootKits.


Regarding using Free World Dialup and ports, we got this from Kenny:

FWD Router Bypass

Download this for FWD, you don't need to do anything to your router. no port forwarding or anything

http://www.freeworlddialup.com/support/software_downloads

There are 4 different software, start with SJphone first then you can try the others and see which one you like...

Also, Another good FWD softphone

http://www.xten.com/index.php?menu=products&smenu=xlite



9:00 PM CT


Woohoo, the Apex DVD Recorder we sent in for repair in Sept has shown up.
Does it work, we will see. Weird thing is they included 2 remotes with, why?

We played The Mail Will Go Through - Tom Paxton

We play DECtalk singing stuff, weeee.


10:00 PM CT

We have Bob Henson on the phone, we talk about cell and other companies unlimited plans that are really NOT!

Read your contracts VERY CLOSELY.

We end up talking Buses and Trains esp Chicago.

Joe from PA calls in, we talk about diff Text to Speech voices.

ALso talk about Old Time Radio a little.


11:00 Pm CT


Rick from Madison checks in to say hi.

We tease Byron on accoridan and a little more bus/train talk.

We play an accordian song by Frankie Yankavic.

Our friend Norm from TN checks in to let us know to contact congress to deal with things you belive in, gota get invoved.

Randy from Canada called in, wow he also got his Apex DVD recorder back!

=END=

Show Notes Tech This! - 02/11/2005

8:00 PM CT

G-Tam (Gerry) from Florida ex-Jacksonville, IL visits Macomb and WTND/Tech This.
He has been a listener for a while mainly via C-Band.

We get into talking about old ham calls, novice N calls and more.

Also Terry (KC4EYD) calls in, we talk a little about packet.
Its great for comms esp in emergencies but seems to be dead in a lot of areas.

9:00 PM CT

A little after 9pm Byron makes it in, yaay. There was a pool how late he made it in.

Byron mentions we are trying the Say it on the air, text to speech on air.

We also get in to talking about old remotes for tv like ultrasonic and wired.

10:00 PM CT

We talk about old TVs and new TVs. Eric from MA calls in.


G-Tam gives us a web site on the state of things to come (are?)

http://www.aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf

We play the JibJab bit on Bush's 2nd term.

Eric in Ma mentions in the IRC:

Call For Help on G4TechTV Canada has a petition for US viewers to get
Call For Help back on the air.

The site is at:
http://www.g4techtv.ca/callforhelp/interact/callforhelpusa.shtml


11:00 PM CT

We hear from Hap Holly via Skype.

Rich from RecNet checks in to give us a LPFM report and digital tv.

http://www.recnet.com

Rich mentions a couple LPFMs getting some big fines from FCC.
Failure to have working EAS, having more power then allowed, etc.

We also talk about the prob with LPFM and translators.

Show Notes Tech This! - 02/04/2005

Show Notes for Tech This 02/04/2005:


8:00 PM CT

The Dishnuts got their DSL back, yaay.

We mention the article in Chicago Tribune that our friend Jim Pemberton got his job back thanks to Gov. Rod Blagoyavich.

We talk with Gerry from Hawthorne, CA. (RFD), she reads a story about kids being sued cause they baked cookies and tried to hand them out at night, yes it was late but it "freaked" out someone and had them sued, geese.

She and Mike explain about their DSL outage, what a mess.


9:00 Pm CT

Continue talking with the Dishnuts.

We talk to Bob Greenberg, he will be at the rehab center for
6-12 weeks.
He is getting a cell fone to do reports. Get Well Soon Bob.


We played Jeremiah Peabody's Poly-Unsaturated Quick Disolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills - Ray Stevens

We talk about long songs and long titles.

Rec mentions a web page in chat:
http://www.emp3finder.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3506&PN=1


Rich Howe calls in and mentions Jaws 6.0 is now out.
(Screen Reader for Blind)



10:00 PM CT

Brian from CA calls in to say hi. They end up talking about portable/external drives.


We also talked about DJing, radio and licensing. WTND is licenses for BMI, ASCAP, SESAC.

Rec gave this: http://www.jukeboxlicense.com


TnD dislike most of the skins for audio players, small and icky looking.


11:00 PM CT

Joe called in, he got a email from "Hotmail" want info. It was phishing for info.
Also its hard to login to this and others as a blind user as it needs a code they give
as a picture, hard to use for blind people.

He is also having probs with ME, we recommed he dump ME goto 98 or Win2k.

Matt calls in, seems QRZ.com is harder now for blind people. It wants to load
Macromedia and its pop up loader can get in the way.

A suggestion is to go the FCC search page, here is a Tiny Url of it:
http://tinyurl.com/oeuo

Dave Marthouse calls in with a way to look up calls via email:

lookup@qrz.com subject blank in body type lookup callsign

Thanks Dave.

Show Notes Shortwave Jan 29th/30th 2005

Dave Marthouse calls in to mention the Blind Access Journal whice can be found at:
http://nu7i.blogspot.com/

He was trying to install Ipodder ona WinME machine and is getting a error of msvcrt.dll


We mention you can get info atthe MediaNetwork blog:

http://medianetwork.blogspot.com/


We ending up going 3 hours.

Show Notes Tech This! 01/28/2005

Show Notes 01/28/05:

8:00 PM CT


We start with We are the World (USA for Africa) recorded Jan 28, 1985.

Also today is when Shuttle Challanger exploded 1/28/86
We played audio of it.

Feb 1st is when Columbia was destroyed upon reentry. (2/1/03)
We played audio of it.


George called in to ask about Byrons hard drive, its still toast.


Ken notified us that Dr. Gene Scott has cancer and is dyeing. :(
He has been on C Band, TV, Radio and Shortwave for years.

TnD talk a little about his history.


9:00 CT


We have Lester on the phone with us.

Darryl mentions that Dick Clark is out of the hospital. yaay.

Don called in and mentions singer Ray Peterson died today.

Mimsy calls in about the X Box. You can add aftermarket BIOS to it
and you can run 3rd part programs not 'signed" by Microsoft.


Found out Jim Capaldi of Traffic died of cancer.


10:00 PM CT

We have Brian on skype hanging out.

We do get a call from Joe again, hes still not getting full fidelty on Skype on WinME. He is on broadband.

Brian talks about using an alternate sound driver called KX Project its at:

http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=1


Its a Skype party!

Also George calls in trying to figure out a song in a commercial.
It was Woo Hoo by the band that was in Kill Bill.


We played Satellite TV Blues - Mike Snyder.


11:00 Pm CT

We played Woo Hoo - Rockatines

We played Johhny Uma, The Rebel

Byron reads some funny quotes.

We play the VinylPodcast playing the song on the 6 day war.

http://vinylpodcast.com/index.php


Pete asks if theres an accessible version (talking) of Firefox. (Not sure)

Shortwave 01/22 - 01/23 2005

11:00 PM CT (0500 UTC)

We start shortwave, say hi.
We play ther Dishnut news and The Space Report.

No Sports report as Bob fell and broke his leg, lets hope he gets well soon.

We thank the Dishnuts for their work on the news, feeds, archives, etc.

We mention TWIAR joining WBCQ 7415 Sat at 3pm CT.

-more to come-

12:00 PM CT (0600 UTC)

mentioned Focus on The Family group are trying to "out" spongebob squarepants.

We Played: Tim McGraw - Don't Take the Girl

We play a bit from Jib Jab from http://www.jibjab.com

We dedicated Eric Idle - FCC Song (Edit) to
Michael Powell of the FCC.

We talked about the fact he is leaving the FCC in March.


- more to come -


We also mention you can use a computer to listen to DRM sw radio

http://www.drmrx.org

Show Notes Tech This! - 01/21/05

8:00 PM CT

We started with a song "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" for Razorlite, his dog passed.

We got an email from Chicken Gene, sad news his house burned down.
(Please think good thoughts for him and family)
(A failthful longtime satellite listener)


Darryl read a story about the Smithsonian Folkways up for sale via MSN Online....ehhh..
(hehe that got him going)

Byron tried to use Skype and had critical errors, turns out it doesn't play nice with Total Recorder.

We also mentioned Powell is out as FCC Commissioner. (yaay)


9:00 PM CT

Blair skyped us, we got in to a discusion of VOIP and
Vonage vs Packet 8. Vonage has better sound quality but Packet 8 is still good and has a lot of features.


We got into a rant about the fact things are veing called "unlimited" but they are indeed limiting it.
An example is Blair's telco says unlimited but when you read the agreement very closely it does limit it 1000 mins a month.


We mentioned how good Skype sounds (http://www.skype.com) and it IS accessable for the blind.


Matt called in From MN, we talked about how his telco will be doing "cable" tv service on the phone lines. With phone and dsl already on the line we wonder how it will looks. We figure there will be a LOT of compression. uggg.


Rick from WI called in, more bad news. Seems Bob Greenberg (our OTR/Sports gooroo) fell and broke his leg, he is in the hospital.


Darryl read an article on records. ;)


10:00 PM CT

He finishes it, here is where its from:

Turn, baby, Turn

THE VINYL COUNTDOWN: WHAT WE MISS ABOUT THOSE BIG, BEAUTIFUL RECORDS

By JOHN KRYK, TORONTO SUN

(Article posted to the TnD yahoo mail list)

We played "Don't Leave your Records in the Sun" by John Hartford.


We also played: Cass Elliot - California Earthquake

Also played: Joanne Baez - Diamonds and Rust

Played: Joanne Baez - Joe Hill

Played: Joanne Baez - Sweet Sir Gallahad

Joe called in from PA using Skype, he was on an older OS and slower machine, it seemed to be working well.

Rod Hewitt called in as he does once in a while. He mentioned that Voom satellite service is going away as we know it, it has been bought by Dish/Echostar.


11:00 PM CT

We continue with Rod Hewitt.

We talk a little more on Voom and Dish, mention again about Powell leaving the FCC, also how bad BPL is, mainly the way its being implemented.

Also talked video like Divix/mpeg4, mpeg and DVD stuff.


He talks about a networked media player thats pretty cool:
http://www.rokulabs.com


Rod mentions some hams doing what amounts to digital amateur TV (DATV) over 2.4 ghz.

Good quality, could also be used say at 1.2 ghz.
(Imagine the possiblities)


He also mentions a way to watch tv remotly over the internet. the source can be anywhere there is a net connection.

http://www.slingmedia.com

Show Notes Tech This! - 01/14/05

GeorgeT has a Win2k Pro and WinXp machine and is having problems transfering files via a usb file transfer cable. Might be a driver issue?

Eric called in to suggest googling for a solution.

Also mentioned the T-Mobile hacking story. Good info on this and more computer stuff at http://www.theregister.co.uk/

He mentions a trojan the expolits a hole in the windows media digital rights management, instead of you being directed to the "correct" site to aquire the rights, you get spyware or malware.

Kevin in MN passed on this URL regarding this:

http://www.benedelman.org/news/010205-1.html

Our friend Rich from RECNET checked into chat to say hi.

They are advocates of LPFM there site is:

http://www.recnet.com

Renee pointed this out to us:

HUYGENS HAS LANDED! The European Space Agency's Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan yesterday ans scientists are processing at least 350 photos from the descent.

http://www.spaceweather.com

Chicago Radio came up, and Oak Park, IL where T and D worked at WGLD-FM with

Art Roberts, before he passed they got mentioned on his website Q&A, here is an excerpt:

Q How does a person with a disability get into radio? B.R.

A When I was consulting WGLD, Oak Park, Illinois, one of the first oldies formats in Chicago, we needed to replenish the library and find a music director. A very special music director. One who had a knowledge of the Chicago hits of the fifties and sixties, and the ability to find the product needed. My guardian angel must have been working overtime, as two young men came to the station with a proposition. They were roommates, and shared an awesome collection of oldies that included every hit record of the fifties and sixties, in mint condition. The had only one problem. Both were legally blind. Documenting the music, and formulating a format for the station would be a tedious task as all the information would need to be written by hand. I hired them both, and wound up with the best oldies format I had ever experienced. As with the case of my two friends, knock on doors and ask for the job........Art

From: http://www.artroberts.com