From:	SMTP%"[removed]@[removed]"  1-DEC-1995 01:16[removed]:	otr@[removed]:	Subj:	[removed] Digest V95 #425 	********************************************************                      ------   # NOTE #   -------SEE INFO SECTION AT END OF THIS DIGEST FOR UNSUBSCRIBE AND OTHER INFORMATION. 		====  INFO SECTION UPDATED 8/19/95  ====	********************************************************	    [removed]   Volume 95 : Issue 425Articles in this issue of [removed]:	 The Player, Starring Paul Frees	 Howard Keel	 J Cards	 Transmitters of the 1920's	 Radio Days Web Page	 PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION	 Temporary Labels, Heterodynes, and More	 A Proper [removed] Masters----------------------------------------------------------------------Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 20:02:45 -0500From: BR3D@[removed]: otr@[removed]: The Player, Starring Paul FreesMessage-ID: <951130200234_121417433@[removed]>Three years ago at the FOTR convention I mentioned to Ron Barnett that I waslooking for tapes of 'The Player' with Paul Frees. He knew of no source forthe programs, so I mentioned the catalog of someone who listed a reel of theshow. Within weeks Ron had a copy of the reel for me and refused to evencharge me for it because of the poor sound quality! ( A non-paidtestimonial!) Two years ago Ron mentioned that he knew of someone who wastrying to clean up the sound, unfortunately, I was only able to attend theconvention on thursday this year and missed talking to Ron about any [removed] question is, can anyone help me find better copies or give me somesuggestions on cleaning up the sound? Are you online Ron?                                          Thanks,                                           Bruce M. Rosenberger------------------------------Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 20:38:34 -0500From: JayHick@[removed]: otr@[removed]: Howard KeelMessage-ID: <951130203832_121456901@[removed]>As I get books relating to the Performing Arts, especially radio, I willalert you.  "Howard Keel," A Bio-Bibliography by Bruce R. Leiby is publishedby Greenwood Publishing Group, Box 5007, Westport, CT 06881 (203) 226-3571:Credit Card orders call 1-800-225-5800.  As in the other 66bio-bibliographies, this book covers all aspects of Keel's life includingstage, film, radio and television, records, sheet music, concerts, etc., Each area is a special chapter and is covered in detail chronologically. Cost is $65 for this 344-page book, published in October of this [removed]: 01 Dec 1995 02:02:55 GMTFrom: [removed]@[removed] (Ron B. Hare)To: otr@[removed]: J CardsMessage-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>John F. MacEachern asked about J Card [removed]'ve found almost all labelling programs to be too restrictive. It'ssometimes just the little things that spoil a canned program from beingapplicable to all [removed], I use Pagemaker - probably overkill, but it does just everything you canimagine with type and you can lay out a page using its rulers to printaccurately at any position with the text rotated in any direction. I've got aMac, so this has always been real easy, but I think the "Draw" programs forPCs now let you position objects and rotate [removed] your own templates is the only way to go, [removed] via LiveWire, a Virtual Valley service. Modem: [removed](FirstClass, VT-100)  Voice: [removed]; E-mail: online@[removed]: Thu, 30 Nov 95 21:51From: "bill harris" <billhar@[removed]>To: "otr digest" <otr@[removed]>Subject: Transmitters of the 1920'sMessage-Id: <m0tLLdh-000YFdC@[removed]>>I am trying to find information about radio transmitters in the l920s. I>need to know if companies, such as Westinghouse, Western Electric, General>Electric, etc., manufactured transmitters, or transmitter components, and if>so what the full brand names and models were called. Also  I would like to>know if the term "heterodyne" or "Super Heterodyne" could be applied to>radio transmitters or the period, as well as receivers. It seems to me, from>my reading, that in the early twenties people generally customized their own>transmitters, but I would like to find out if manufacturing companies made>transmitters or a significant part of transmitter components, too. >Thanks,>>>Mike Craver>email pcraver@[removed] first regularly scheduled licensed broadcast was from KDKA on November 2, 1920 with a 100 watt transmitter. By January 1, 1922, only 30 broadcast stations had been licensed by the Dept. of Commerce. Some stations with amateur licenses were broadcasting programs of speech and music. By May 1, 1922 there were a reported 218 stations on the air, many only operating a few hours a week. Most stations spent very little money on broadcasting operation as  the idea of selling air time to finance operations did not occur until 1922 whenWEAF, New York went 'commercial' by selling air time for the first commercial for a real estate company. Most all the stations that went on the air in 1921 and 1922 were operated as a side line. The idea behindKDKA was so Westinghouse could sell receivers. Department stores owned stations for the same purpose. Station were operated for fun, publicity, or prestige. Churches, newspapers, jewelry stores, hardware stores, and educational institutions could be counted among station [removed] stations operated with power levels of 50 watts or less. Power levels of 100 to 500 watts was considered high. About 15 stations were operating at 1,000 watts and about five at 5,000 [removed], General Electric, De Forest, and Western Electric manufactured broadcast transmitters. The De Forest OT-10 Radio-telephone transmitter was the first transmitter used in commercial broadcasting in 1920 (an OT-10 was recently sold at the Ford Museumauction for $14,500). Many of the low powered, low budget stations were home built. KFI's first transmitter was a 50 watter built bread-boardstyle. The transmitter of KFGD, Chickasha, Oklahoma was a home built seven tube unit that went on the air in November of 1923, as describedin the June 1924 issue of Radio News. Station frequency was refered to in wavelengths instead of kilocyclesor the modern term kilohertz. KGO operated on a wavelength of 312 meters, KFGO on 248 meters. Receivers would usually have a simple logging scale on the dial marked 0 to 100. A listener would write down the dial readingof stations so they could be easly tuned in later. However it was not uncommon for stations to frequency hop and show up at a different point on the [removed] for building a transmitter could be obtained from mail order houses such as William B. Duck, Toledo, Ohio, or The Electro ImportingCo. of New York. The terms heterodyne and superheterodyne generally refers to [removed] is the process of mixing signals of two different frequencies,the result being the sum and difference of the two mixed [removed] superheterodyne receiver was invented by Edwin Armstrong in 1918. Early receivers were of the crystal type, TRF (Tuned Radio Frequency),or regenerative. Even in the early 20's few listeners had superheterodyne receivers as these required more tubes and were expensive and more complicated  than the other circuit types. Bill Harrisbillhar@[removed] success dosen't come [removed]: Thu, 30 Nov 95 21:34:35 -0500From: ins0015 <jwidner@[removed]>To: [removed]@[removed]: Radio Days Web PageMessage-Id: <m0tLLEi-000K0xC@[removed]>The December issue of Radio Days Timeline is now available at my web page - Radio Days. Some of the features this month include:- Charlie Chan- Ezra Stone's Birthday- Arch Oboler's Birthday- the new Vice-president, Gerry Ford (1973)- Pearl Harbor- Ira Grossel (Jeff Chandler)- Charlie McCarthy- Jack BennyThere are other new soundbites including the soap, Linda's First [removed] Days provides soundbite histories via the web.  It can be reached [removed] Widnerjwidner@[removed][removed]: 30 Nov 95 21:39 -0500From: Neal_COULTER/ACAD@[removed] (Neal COULTER)To: OTR@[removed]: PROGRAM IDENTIFICATIONMessage-Id: <008EK4@[removed]>In about 1947 or 1948 I heard a show which I would like to [removed] was a science fiction program about some people who had a timemachine which they were using to go 5,000 years into the past.  Whenthey got there, they found themselves in a heavily forested area andwere pursued by a group of apelike creatures.  They barely made itto their machine and got back home. There they discovered that themachine had accidentally been set to take them 5,000 years intothe future.  Can anyone identify the program and the episode name?Thanks.                        Neal Coulter                        (ncoulter@[removed])------------------------------Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 23:49:31 -0500From: KENPILETIC@[removed]: otr@[removed]: Temporary Labels, Heterodynes, and MoreMessage-ID: <951130234928_40195204@[removed]>Hi Gang -             November 30 - 1995 -- Thursday Night 8:25 cstBeware of "Temporary" labels!   They fall off! In issue 423, Ron Hare indicated that temporary labels can be [removed] thought they would be nice to use on my videocassettes.  I wrote the contents of cassettes on temporary labels and stuck them to the edge instead of using the permanent label that comes with them.  About six years later, I discovered my floor was covered with hundreds of labels,and I had hundreds of tapes without labels on the shelves.  Those labelsthat were still on the tapes were ready to fall off. I have since switchedto permanent labels.  It's a real mess trying to figure out what label goes with which tape. ------------  New Topic ---------Heterodynes (per issue 422): A heterodyne is the "whistle" you hear when two nearby frequencies "beat" against each other.  Technically, you hear the difference betweenthe two frequencies.   Actually it's a lot more complicated than that, but I won't take the time to explain "mixing" of frequencies here. A superheterodyne is a type of receiver which intentionally mixes theincoming station frequency with a local oscillator to develop an Intermediate Frequency (IF) which is then amplified and detected withinthe radio.  Most modern radios have at least one IF.  This principle was discovered by Edwin Howard Armstrong (did you read/see/hear "Empire ofthe Air").  While most receivers utilize hetrodynes, most transmitters do not.  Transmitters generally use doubling and tripling.  Enough of the tech-talk. -----------   New Topic  ---------Software Radio (per issue 421): Thank you, Francis Fisher, for posting the NAB article.  It was very interesting.  With this technique it might be possible to record all frequencies at the same time, and play the tape back later throughit, separating the different stations on playback.  This is something I thought about doing for a number of years, but I was using a differenttheory.  NAB's method sound good, but expensive. -------------  Last Topic ---------PCM recording (per issue 421): It looks like PCM is fast disappearing from the consumer market.  It isa superior method of recording sound on 8mm videotape, in fact for the past several FOTR conventions I recorded the audio on PCM.  Recorders are becoming hard to find, and those that are available also record/playHiFi stereo on 8mm tape.  The market appears to be leaning to the HiFi format.  While it's not as good as PCM, the equipment is more readilyavailable.  I wouldn't use either method for archiving.  I'm sticking to the old tried and true open reel format. That's all for now, folks.  Jack Benny (tribute) comes on in 35 [removed] want to warm up my VCR. Happy Taping -   Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois kenpiletic@[removed] ------------------------------Date: 01 Dec 95 01:48:45 ESTFrom: Ross/Corinne Learn <[removed]@[removed]>To: OTR DIGEST <OTR@[removed]>Subject: A Proper [removed] MastersMessage-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>I just recently watched a proper documentary on Rod Serling (American Masters onPBS).  It certainly reinforced my belief that PBS puts on a heck of a good [removed]'m not going to go into the content, but the structure of the piece was soperfect that I wish that more of our favorite OTR stars could recieve the sametreatment in a retrospective look at their careers.  It was a low-key andrespectful look at Serling's writing and moreso much of it was presented in hisown words.  Another point was that it had praises (and not gushes) about hisgenius and insite from his peers, people who worked with him and knew about theman.  Perhaps PBS in their wisdom can give similar tribute to some of the OTRgenius' that we hold dear.(Just a note they showed a clip of Serling appearing on The Jack [removed] The meeting of two genius')[removed]        ****  END OF ARTICLE SECTION - INFORMATION BOILERPLATE FOLLOWS ****1) Contacting the list [removed]) Unsubscribing from this list3) Receive a DIGEST READING TIPS file4) AIRWAVES web page5) Shareware Notice 6) Redistribution of [removed])  The [removed] maintainer can be reached at EDITOR@[removed]) To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send email [removed]@[removed] and place the word UNSUBSCRIBEalone on the Subject: line of your request.  The body ofrequest mail is ignored by the server.  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