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Microbroadcasting Summer Camp
ScottGant writes "Wired has this
story about Steven Dunifer and his four-day Radio Summer Camps sponsored by Free Radio Berkeley that offers how-tos for building transmitters and antennas, along with advice on handling any FCC agents that might come knocking. Imagine this: A thousand little stations send radio programming across cities and towns from senior centers, dorm rooms and attics. The understaffed FCC would be powerless to shut them down. Audiences would have substantive content choices. No one would tune into Top-40 radio. And the media moguls would slink back into their caves. The FCC and Big Radio are obviously paying attention to the microbroadcasters -- it was
pressure from independent broadcasters that forced the FCC to grant a limited number of low-power, or LPFM, radio licenses to community organizations, a decision that the NAB resisted. Are these Pirates or Patriots?"
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In the early days of cylinder recordings, there was no way to mass-produce them by molding. This was eventually solved, but it was one of the factors that led to the rise of the disk. There was a crude method called a "pantograph" that could make about 25 low-quality copies from a single original (while destroying the original in the process).
So, the way they made recordings was to set up about ten phonographs--more for a big, loud orchestra, fewer for an individual singer--and record batches of ten or so originals at a time. That meant about 250 salable copies per performance. Popular recordings might have sales in the tens of thousands, so popular performers had to have studio sessions in which they performed their piece over, and over, and over, and over, and over again.
If they could identify two cylinders that were made from the same performance, but from different originals, they'd have simultaneous recordings from two different vantage points... and if they could use the computer to take care of any synchronizing problems from the recorders running at different speeds... we could hear the Edison Concert Band playing "The Thunderer" March in stereo!
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
This reminds me of that movie a lot.
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