Rest In Peace Pierre Robert (WMMR Radio Personality) He was a legend in the Philly market. I've met him. He was only 70! RIP https://www.phillymag.com/news/2025/10/29/pierre-robert-death-died/
“How Andrew Cuomo’s Dreams of Becoming a Radio Star Fell Apart”
“For politicians who have been canceled, are washed-up or out of work, radio has long been a refuge.”
This says as much about the awful state of #radio as it does about the awful Andrew Cuomo.
I’m very surprised by this so far.
All Saints Ben
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Mind the shivers down your spine, because the theme on #ThePlaylist this week is:
Haunting
Two hours of haunting tunes, most of which are about ghosts and ghoulies and that. But not all.
The Archive - https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-078-haunting/
Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/DJDarren/theplaylist-271025-haunting/
Listen! Enjoy! Tell all your friend!
// https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //
// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //
Mind the shivers down your spine, because the theme on #ThePlaylist this week is:
Haunting
Two hours of haunting tunes, most of which are about ghosts and ghoulies and that. But not all.
The Archive - https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-078-haunting/
Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/DJDarren/theplaylist-271025-haunting/
Listen! Enjoy! Tell all your friend!
// https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //
// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //
ghouls for commensality 🧿
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Today on the show, it's treats, not tricks, for Halloween. We'll have some spooky oldies and we'll also be spotlighting Pittsburgh native Joe Flaherty. What were his comic influences?
The answers might surprise you! 12-3 pm on WRCT 88.3FM http://www.wrct.org and Tube City Online Radio - McKeesport http://www.tubecityonline.com/radio
Requests: 412-385-7450 or @ me here
Today on the show, it's treats, not tricks, for Halloween. We'll have some spooky oldies and we'll also be spotlighting Pittsburgh native Joe Flaherty. What were his comic influences?
The answers might surprise you! 12-3 pm on WRCT 88.3FM http://www.wrct.org and Tube City Online Radio - McKeesport http://www.tubecityonline.com/radio
Requests: 412-385-7450 or @ me here
Alex Akselrod
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New York Times: A Costly Radio System Faltered When Texas Needed It Most
Motorola won a $7 million contract to modernize Kerr County’s emergency radio system. When a devastating flash flood swept through the county, emergency crews had trouble using it.
"...After a deadly flash flood swept through Kerr County in central Texas this summer, rescuers combed dozens of miles along the Guadalupe River, looking for survivors. The grueling job was made more difficult because the radio system they needed to coordinate the response was not up to the task... It was a frustrating mix of problems, made even more troubling because Kerr County had just spent $7 million to overhaul its radio communication system. But the deficiencies were no accident: The new network installed by Motorola Solutions excluded about a quarter of the county’s sprawling territory from reliable coverage for portable radios, leaving dead zones around Camp Mystic and other areas along the river.,,,."
Some rescuers got busy signals. Others got garbled messages. At Camp Mystic, the summer camp where 25 children died in the flooding, there was little to no coverage. Temporary radio towers eventually were brought in to extend service into the disaster zone.
It was a frustrating mix of problems, made even more troubling because Kerr County had just spent $7 million to overhaul its radio communication system. But the deficiencies were no accident: The new network installed by Motorola Solutions excluded about a quarter of the county’s sprawling territory from reliable coverage for portable radios, leaving dead zones around Camp Mystic and other areas along the river.
A Costly Radio System Faltered When Texas Needed It Most
Motorola won a $7 million contract to modernize Kerr County’s emergency radio system. When a devastating flash flood swept through the county, emergency crews had trouble using it.
New York Times: A Costly Radio System Faltered When Texas Needed It Most
Motorola won a $7 million contract to modernize Kerr County’s emergency radio system. When a devastating flash flood swept through the county, emergency crews had trouble using it.
"...After a deadly flash flood swept through Kerr County in central Texas this summer, rescuers combed dozens of miles along the Guadalupe River, looking for survivors. The grueling job was made more difficult because the radio system they needed to coordinate the response was not up to the task... It was a frustrating mix of problems, made even more troubling because Kerr County had just spent $7 million to overhaul its radio communication system. But the deficiencies were no accident: The new network installed by Motorola Solutions excluded about a quarter of the county’s sprawling territory from reliable coverage for portable radios, leaving dead zones around Camp Mystic and other areas along the river.,,,."
Some rescuers got busy signals. Others got garbled messages. At Camp Mystic, the summer camp where 25 children died in the flooding, there was little to no coverage. Temporary radio towers eventually were brought in to extend service into the disaster zone.
It was a frustrating mix of problems, made even more troubling because Kerr County had just spent $7 million to overhaul its radio communication system. But the deficiencies were no accident: The new network installed by Motorola Solutions excluded about a quarter of the county’s sprawling territory from reliable coverage for portable radios, leaving dead zones around Camp Mystic and other areas along the river.
A Costly Radio System Faltered When Texas Needed It Most
Motorola won a $7 million contract to modernize Kerr County’s emergency radio system. When a devastating flash flood swept through the county, emergency crews had trouble using it.
Jay 🆘
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It's Day 6 of WMBR's Annual Fundraising Drive, running from October 16-22! You can support us via our secure donation portal:
https://wmbr.org/fr/pledge2025.php
One of the cool donation premiums you can choose from is the overdyed crew neck sweatshirt with a tonal green print. It features a design by station member Mark Robinson, with the WMBR logo on the front, and "The Great 88.1" on the back. And it can be yours for an $88.10 pledge.
It's Day 6 of WMBR's Annual Fundraising Drive, running from October 16-22! You can support us via our secure donation portal:
https://wmbr.org/fr/pledge2025.php
One of the cool donation premiums you can choose from is the overdyed crew neck sweatshirt with a tonal green print. It features a design by station member Mark Robinson, with the WMBR logo on the front, and "The Great 88.1" on the back. And it can be yours for an $88.10 pledge.
Jay 🆘
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It's Day 2 of our annual fundraising drive! By donating this year you'll help us fund a major renovation of our "A Control" studio, going from our aging mixing board, pictured below, to ...
It's Day 2 of our annual fundraising drive! By donating this year you'll help us fund a major renovation of our "A Control" studio, going from our aging mixing board, pictured below, to ...
... the modern console, pictured below.
You can donate security by visiting https://www.wmbr.org/fr/fundraising2025.php
It's Day 2 of our annual fundraising drive! By donating this year you'll help us fund a major renovation of our "A Control" studio, going from our aging mixing board, pictured below, to ...
Jay 🆘
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Our annual fundraising drive begins tomorrow, Thursday Oct. 16, and runs through Wednesday Oct. 22.
This is the one week of the year that we ask you, our listeners, to help support our radio station and keep us broadcasting for another year! Tune in all week long for special programs, and maybe a few surprises.
You'll be able to donate at https://wmbr.org
Our annual fundraising drive begins tomorrow, Thursday Oct. 16, and runs through Wednesday Oct. 22.
This is the one week of the year that we ask you, our listeners, to help support our radio station and keep us broadcasting for another year! Tune in all week long for special programs, and maybe a few surprises.
You'll be able to donate at https://wmbr.org
Selten hat mich ein Werbejingle _so_ gut getriggert: "einfach gut... [...] 'Comeback des McCountry'" #radio #kindder80er
deutrino
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Over the weekend @meph added some mind blowing new features to lorapipe.
- APRS over LoRa
- Ethernet over LoRa
https://social.treehouse.systems/@meph/115365077448221139
#hamraadio #radio #lora #meshcore #meshtastic #lorapipe #aprs #ax25 #kiss #tnc #packetradio #networking #cybersecurity #offgrid
All of @meph 's work on #lorapipe is under MIT license.
Features like APRS over LoRa and Ethernet over LoRa serve some interesting niches we're not likely to monetize.
More than anything we want lorapipe to be a rapid prototyping tool for LoRa solutions. It's key for this to be as free and open as we can make it and I hope these features demonstrate our direction.
We'd appreciate donations towards the effort so we can knockout lorapipe v1.
Finally setup the github builder and now there's pre-release lorapipe firmware available for download!
We're building 79 different variants so testing on your favorite LoRa devices is highly encouraged!
Now that lorapipe has KISS-TNC protocol support for sending and recieving LoRa packets, it means that basically all sorts of ham radio and Linux tooling designed to talk to KISS modems suddenly work over LoRa.
For HAM radio nerds, this means things like APRS -just- work. Follow the instructions in the documentation to get started.
I suspect HAMs can bridge APRS across spectrums to ISM 433/868/915Mhz LoRa now using lorapipe. 😎
https://github.com/datapartyjs/lorapipe?tab=readme-ov-file#aprs-over-lora
Because this KISS-TNC stuff is pretty old, it has really good support on modern Linux.
So we're actually able to setup lorapipe on two different linux boxes and form an ethernet network over LoRa!
The current rev has some MTU limits we can fix, we can also eak out probably another 2x more bandwidth too.
But as is I was able to ping, mosh and ssh over my ethernet-LoRa network between Linux computers!
https://github.com/datapartyjs/lorapipe?tab=readme-ov-file#ethernet-over-lora
