Tag: blogging

Happy Independence Day, Patriot!

First of all, I have received a few off line questions about my well being due to the absence of posts recently. I assure you, I am fine. I am really busy with a variety of projects, most of which cannot be blogged about due to restrictions from station owners.

Secondly, I hope that all are staying safe in this current heat wave, which is effecting a large part of the country.

Finally, my country is celebrating its 250th birthday. In my youth, I was lucky to have traveled around many areas in Asia. It was an eye opening experience because I was not visiting tourist destinations. It made me thoroughly understand how important our constitution is. That experience also taught me how important it is to take action and participate in governance.

How?

Vote.

Voter apathy has lead to some of the worst election outcomes in history. In New York City, Zohran Mamdani received 573,000 votes in the primary and 1,114,184 votes in the general election. In the 2025 New York City Mayoral election 2,174,547 people cast a vote. There are 4,960,233 active registered voters in New York City. That means that 43% of registered voters showed up and 22% of registered voters elected Mamdani the Commie. That is a problem; 22% is not a mandate under any system, yet here we are.

If you think your vote doesn’t count, you are wrong. If you do not like the candidates, register for a party and vote in the primary. If you think you can do a better job, run for office. There are many ways to become meaningfully engaged in the election process. Go (or watch on line) town board meetings. Ask questions, call your local representatives and so forth.

Ten years on

It was ten years ago that I registered the domain name for Engineering Radio. A few days later, I put the first post up. It is still there.  Those were different times for me personally and the business in general.  There certainly have been trials, but it has never been dull.

Periodically, I go back through the posts and delete anything that is no longer relevant.  I would estimate about 1/4 to 1/3 of the content has been deleted over the years.  It is a good exercise to go back through and read what I wrote previously.

Currently, the stats are:

  • 787 published posts, there are a few in the wings waiting to be finished
  • 4459 comments
  • Approximately 200 page views per day
  • 170 RSS feed subscriptions

I lost the country counter, but I believe the split is still about 60/40 US readers vs other countries.

I will continue on with this thing for as long as I feel it is worthwhile.

A few updates

UPDATE: I notice that Radio World has a little star rating system on their articles. According to the rating, twenty-one people think I suck… That is okay, but when I started looking around at all of the other articles on the website, I noticed most have but one or two votes.  It seems odd to me that my little opinion piece would have so many negative votes, especially in light of the e-mails, phone calls, and personal interactions I have received supporting my position. 

Perhaps a few of you could run over there, read the article then objectively decide what you think… Here is the link: AM Efforts Should Include Tech Solutions

I am deeply immersed in all things networking, yet again. I regret the sparse posts, but there are a few things of note:

  1. It appears the WYFR shortwave site in Okeechobee has been sold to the operators of WRMI (Radio Miami International).  This is a good turn of events for shortwave broadcasting.  WRMI was programmed mostly to the Caribbean and was difficult to hear in these parts.
  2. Nielsen Radio, formerly Arbitron, says it will increase the sample size for the PPM program.  This is good, larger sample size means better accuracy and fewer extrapolation-related errors and strange rating spikes.
  3. I published a commentary in Radio World Commentary: AM Efforts Should Include Tech Solutions. What do you think? Should the industry be looking at something other than HD Radio?
  4. Then, from across the pond there is this: