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Termyn8or -> What kind of spirit is this ? (4/20/2009 8:21:57 PM)
This is a bit strange but I see it. Perhaps it is actually a form of voyerism, but totally legal, as far as I know and not that I care. All my life I have had certain fascinations, and one of them is that when I have a reciever, that is a radio or TV I figure it is a reciever and I want to recieve things from as far away as possible. I was the guy in your backyard running a long wire antenna in the middle of the night, I am way beyond the efforts of the hillbillies with the aluminum foil on their antennae. Although I don't have a shortwave, the thought does cross my mind. I have had CBs, but ham radio is something I would consider as well. When I was young we had a 1966 RCA TV, which touted a "nuvista" tuner, and they were not kidding. Technically I know what that means and I don't know for sure but it might outperform the new and the best of today, sensitivity was the issue then since the population was more sparse. People lived way out in the stix and needed a good tuner in their TV. I lived on Detroit Ave in Cle, Lakewood I think, who cares right now ? We frequently enjoyed shows on Canadian TV, and from otrher places, and this was on rabbit ears ! I admit they were really good rabbit ears and we lived upstairs, but this thing did seem to have a superior tuner in it. While I could never get anything on channels 2, 4, and 6, I got the rest. One I liked was 10 which was CFPL in Windsor, Ontario, ANOTHER COUNTRY ! It was fascinating. This did not stop with TV either, with FM and good antennae, I discovered much more, and that doesn't even count the AM radio days, when I preferred to listen to CKLW in Windsor, rather than our sorta famous WIXY 1260. I don't even own a radio now, I download everything. It beats the other forms of media cold, it never gets scratched or lost, it can be backed up and restored, you just can't beat it. But now instead of crossing geographic lines, I am crossing the time line. For example I just listened to Everything good is bad by 100 Year aged in soul. You can get that if you are specific in your search, but I was looking for it because I remember it. I may have been five years old, but I wanted it in my collection. I also like it. But to truly illustrate how [crazy] I am, there is another song in my head. Now I don't really like it but I deem it worthy of my collection. Realize that I have a couple of gigs of music that I will not put into MY collection. I think I am going to make another directory for that. But for my collection, a song I don't really like, but I remember went: "One camaliero, yeah he's a one comarliello, one comilliero........, yeah he's a one comariello" . I have no idea of the spelling so how in hell am I to search for that ? If I had the spelling right I would probably have the song in ten seconds flat, but I simply can't use a search engine without a search term. This is where my music gurus come in, some are good. I mean sing them a couple of bars like that and they call you back ten minutes later with the answer. This song was also made into a rap song recently, and I heard that version from one of the neighbors' houses In the past, trying to pickup signals from as far away as possible was called DXing. Now with second tier high speed DSL, am I DXing through time ? It seems that the older the song (especially that I liked), the more I want it. Age is not the only consideration though, for example I wanted a copy of I pulled the plug by Starz, that is not that old but I couldn't get it. I had to buy it. So is this a form of voyerism or something ? Do I loathe domestic ? Do I crave the over the hills and far away ? And if so, why ? The last word is, the harder it is to get, the more I want it. T

Vendaval -> RE: What kind of spirit is this ? (4/20/2009 8:34:09 PM)
You like the thrill of the chase and the more unobtainable the desired object the bigger of a victory.

MadAxeman -> RE: What kind of spirit is this ? (4/20/2009 10:30:40 PM)
Not sure, maybe meths.

Termyn8or -> RE: What kind of spirit is this ? (4/20/2009 10:55:37 PM)
Meths ? You mean crank ? I have done it but I don't, I just don't care for it. T

ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: What kind of spirit is this ? (4/20/2009 11:19:19 PM)
I think you're thinking of "Guantanamera", a Cuban love song. Very beautiful song. As for what spirit it is that's moving you to collect these tunes, I'd simply say it's that patented curious and agile mind of yours. You're an extremely inquisitive guy, who's always poking into new things and checking them out to see whether you like them. I don't read any more into it than that. Just an uncommonly inquisitive mind.

Lucylastic -> RE: What kind of spirit is this ? (4/21/2009 4:05:28 AM)
Yep its Guantanamera.... Ive linked to the Pete Seegar version on your tube.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5JLCAIJLJ8&feature=PlayList&p=2468633F0AD4CACD&index=0&playnext=1 I grew up with this song, learning to dance the Rumba, and it always gets my hips swaying:) Lucy

Jeptha -> RE: What kind of spirit is this ? (4/21/2009 10:19:47 AM)
I had a journal post that had some similar themes (pardon the long cut-n-paste; there is a note about "dx fishing" at the very end...) ------ Ghost Radio. I , like scads of kids back in the hazy, barely rememberable, if not unmemorable, days of yesteryear, had a cheap pocket-sized transistor radio, with which I would attempt to listen to the Top 40 (pop hits) at night, with the lights out. If the Top 40 was intolerable (not infrequent), I could spin the tiny dial and thus go wheeling across the ionosphere, to eavesdrop on whichever ghosts were congregated in the gutter of the AM dial. Down there, and out along the fringes, often were weird preachers, disembodied voices either railing or droning their incantations into the ether. The words and meaning were mysterious to my young mind, and they sounded spectral and very far away, as though they could be traveling across time as well as space. I imagined a southern revival. It's possible I wasn't far wrong: AM radio signal travels farther at night, sometimes great distances, as some part of the upper atmosphere is clearer after dark, which allows the radio signal to bounce more easily. Most likely though, the signals were from Hartford or New Haven, or possibly New York. But I was too young to make any more note beyond the hazy impression of disembodied spirit voices on the Motorola. As I got a little older, occasionally a pop song would recreate that impression (now more like a bafflement), that sense of; "What the hell is that, and where is it coming from?!" The earliest example I can think of is the Miracles song, "Going to a Go Go"... A perfectly innocuous song in just about every way, yet I was perplexed by it (not the song, exactly, but the recorded performance); how could something so simple be so mysterious? (at least to me) -And - where did he get that vocal style? But, admittedly, my brain is perplexed by music. Even comprehending simple pop-song structure can be like fruitlessly twiddling a Rubic's Cube to me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "At one point in the mid-twenties....the decidedly eerie DX practice of "ghost broadcasting " came into vogue...."The method used in broadcasting the shades is to turn on the microphone and, with the studio doors locked and no one in the room, to listen for mysterious sounds on the station carrier, which is assumed to be quiet."..." (Haunted media : electronic presence from telegraphy to television / Jeffrey Sconce. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000. pg 75.)

GhostWhoWalks -> RE: What kind of spirit is this ? (4/22/2009 6:13:15 PM)
Dude, you're just bat-shit crazy. [8D] There is no cure. So just enjoy it. [:D] quote: ORIGINAL: Termyn8or This is a bit strange but I see it. Perhaps it is actually a form of voyerism, but totally legal, as far as I know and not that I care. All my life I have had certain fascinations, and one of them is that when I have a reciever, that is a radio or TV I figure it is a reciever and I want to recieve things from as far away as possible. I was the guy in your backyard running a long wire antenna in the middle of the night, I am way beyond the efforts of the hillbillies with the aluminum foil on their antennae. Although I don't have a shortwave, the thought does cross my mind. I have had CBs, but ham radio is something I would consider as well. When I was young we had a 1966 RCA TV, which touted a "nuvista" tuner, and they were not kidding. Technically I know what that means and I don't know for sure but it might outperform the new and the best of today, sensitivity was the issue then since the population was more sparse. People lived way out in the stix and needed a good tuner in their TV. I lived on Detroit Ave in Cle, Lakewood I think, who cares right now ? We frequently enjoyed shows on Canadian TV, and from otrher places, and this was on rabbit ears ! I admit they were really good rabbit ears and we lived upstairs, but this thing did seem to have a superior tuner in it. While I could never get anything on channels 2, 4, and 6, I got the rest. One I liked was 10 which was CFPL in Windsor, Ontario, ANOTHER COUNTRY ! It was fascinating. This did not stop with TV either, with FM and good antennae, I discovered much more, and that doesn't even count the AM radio days, when I preferred to listen to CKLW in Windsor, rather than our sorta famous WIXY 1260. I don't even own a radio now, I download everything. It beats the other forms of media cold, it never gets scratched or lost, it can be backed up and restored, you just can't beat it. But now instead of crossing geographic lines, I am crossing the time line. For example I just listened to Everything good is bad by 100 Year aged in soul. You can get that if you are specific in your search, but I was looking for it because I remember it. I may have been five years old, but I wanted it in my collection. I also like it. But to truly illustrate how [crazy] I am, there is another song in my head. Now I don't really like it but I deem it worthy of my collection. Realize that I have a couple of gigs of music that I will not put into MY collection. I think I am going to make another directory for that. But for my collection, a song I don't really like, but I remember went: "One camaliero, yeah he's a one comarliello, one comilliero........, yeah he's a one comariello" . I have no idea of the spelling so how in hell am I to search for that ? If I had the spelling right I would probably have the song in ten seconds flat, but I simply can't use a search engine without a search term. This is where my music gurus come in, some are good. I mean sing them a couple of bars like that and they call you back ten minutes later with the answer. This song was also made into a rap song recently, and I heard that version from one of the neighbors' houses In the past, trying to pickup signals from as far away as possible was called DXing. Now with second tier high speed DSL, am I DXing through time ? It seems that the older the song (especially that I liked), the more I want it. Age is not the only consideration though, for example I wanted a copy of I pulled the plug by Starz, that is not that old but I couldn't get it. I had to buy it. So is this a form of voyerism or something ? Do I loathe domestic ? Do I crave the over the hills and far away ? And if so, why ? The last word is, the harder it is to get, the more I want it. T

pahunkboy -> RE: What kind of spirit is this ? (4/22/2009 7:46:12 PM)
WLS out of Chicago was once a good radio station. It could be picked up in many states late at night. It is curious to think about it all.

Termyn8or -> RE: What kind of spirit is this ? (4/23/2009 7:40:22 AM)
Yes it is Guantanamera. Now maybe I won't be so crazy now that it is not stuck in my head. Now AM was the days. It went alot farther, I think it would even skip. No such luck with FM. Of course that did not stop me from connecting a big antenna and trying. What I regret is not getting into shortwave more. Off to eat breakfast, which is ½ a steak sandwich. Yes I am crazy, and I do enjoy it. T

igor2003 -> RE: What kind of spirit is this ? (4/23/2009 8:00:19 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Termyn8or Yes it is Guantanamera. Now maybe I won't be so crazy now that it is not stuck in my head. Now AM was the days. It went alot farther, I think it would even skip. No such luck with FM. Of course that did not stop me from connecting a big antenna and trying. What I regret is not getting into shortwave more. Off to eat breakfast, which is ½ a steak sandwich. Yes I am crazy, and I do enjoy it. T Yes AM skipped good when the weather was right. As a kid I spent many an Idaho night staying up late and listening to Wolfman Jack in California when I could get the skip

Jeptha -> RE: What kind of spirit is this ? (4/23/2009 10:30:45 AM)
I'd heard that was supposed to have been an influence on Jamaican music; AM radio picked up at night , broadcast from New Orleans' stations. About border towns; the FCC didn't regulate them the same on each side of the border. So stations across the border in Mexico (perhaps in Canada, also?) weren't subject to the same restrictions. At least for a while. I think there was supposed to be a Mexican station near the border somewhere that broadcast a way more powerful signal than it's U.S. counterparts were allowed to broadcast, for example.

windchymes -> RE: What kind of spirit is this ? (4/23/2009 4:47:32 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Termyn8or Yes it is Guantanamera. Now maybe I won't be so crazy now that it is not stuck in my head. Now AM was the days. It went alot farther, I think it would even skip. No such luck with FM. Of course that did not stop me from connecting a big antenna and trying. What I regret is not getting into shortwave more. Off to eat breakfast, which is ½ a steak sandwich. Yes I am crazy, and I do enjoy it. T I remember WIXY 1260, but preferred 1220 WGAR (Lanigan in the Morning!) and WHLO out of Akron [:)]

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