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Dr Alexander: Please get a lapel microphone, preferably a "noise cancelling" type, so we hear you and not the reverberations from your office walls. I'd recommend calling B&H Photo/Video in NYC (bhphotovideo.com) and asking for a recommendation. I am not affiliated with B&H, except that I spend way too much money there. Keep up your good works! Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51krrG8jKWgp6Nfpby0wJ6prJukmZiutbXOp5ainG1qhHp%2FlG9dqaejqayqsJxwaWlqZmqEdXLUraSYq5%2Bqv6SxnKysm6uklrCsctStpJillZm2trmcnqSaoZxbtrSS0Z6cppmZoYq1vtSeXZynnaKyr8DSdqurrZVbwbC3xKd0nrF6ZrBzotiRaaWjeZ%2B8dZujimiGonGumoTDyJx%2BcrKUe4axpqKCbYeyeayaq6WQh7GKq3miuamwooJthoyJZ5qrodeHoXqyfXjEqqa3oa6Cop%2Btm6ulkIaLemx9eZq4mKKDp5xrfZ6cqpbWnY6CrH6JsHaZ2Y5pgqGnnrB0osiCoaihk3yGu7CiarCTj3afsYi41Zugg3FeabyDxcCrjaStcXmxmrnGnWdykHqpk4R%2F1G5tjIt8j5Vzm6iRmaFweo2%2BdXLUraSYq5%2Bqv6SxnKysm6uklrCsctStpJillZm2trmcnqSaoZw%3D

Radio Shack was founded in 1921 by brothers Theodore and Milton Deutschmann. They wanted to provide supplies for the new field of amateur radio. The name of the company was a reference to the small structures that housed a ship’s radio at the time. For a while, the company was disparagingly referred to as “Nagasaki Hardware” because most of the parts came from Japan, which was seen as a maker of low-quality parts.

On October 6, legendary San Francisco radio station KGO fired its entire staff and switched formats after 80 years from newstalk to to discussions of sports and gambling. Mark Thompson, whose popular morning show was a fixture on KGO for several years, didn’t miss a beat. He responded by putting his show online, exactly as listeners were used to hearing… ncG1vNJzZmiilZuzpr7SqKWgqpGdrq560q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnopaxqruMrKuarJmku263xqhkrKClqcBusM6wpWaapak%3D

Radio communications play a key role in modern electronics, but to a hobbyist, the underlying theory is hard to parse. We get the general idea, of course: we know about frequencies and can probably explain the difference between amplitude modulation and frequency modulation. Yet, most of us find it difficult to articulate what makes a good antenna, or how a receiver can tune in to a specific frequency and ignore everything else.

Hello I’m Andrea Castillo and this is Seasonal, a newsletter that connects you to the Bay Area food system, one fruit and vegetable at a time. Seasonal comes out twice per month, and each post highlights the most interesting aspects of one seasonal fruit or vegetable grown and harvested around the Bay Area. Find me on Instagram at @seasonalbayarea or e-mail me at seasonal@substack.com to share your feedback and suggestions, I’d love to hear from you. If you’d like to unsubscribe, click the gray unsubscribe link at the bottom of this post.

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Since the Portland Thorns have been put on the market, there was hope by all that it would be a quick process. Unfortunately, that has been far from the case. But today, the long process has finally been officially completed. RAJ Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal, has officially acquired controlling ownership of Portland Thorns FC of the NWSL from Peregrine Sports LLC, both groups announced today. Lisa Bhathal Merage will serve as controlling owner and NWSL Governor, while Alex Bhathal will serve as NWSL Alternate Governor.

Ralph Nader, then age 32, on a trip to England in 1966 to discuss his internationally best-selling book about auto safety, Unsafe at Any Speed. Naturally the Brit papers wanted a photo of him driving bumper cars, which he did at the Battersea Funfair. (Getty Images.) In the writing life, it turns out that a lot of your friends are writers. So there is a steady stream of new books by people you know.

Drummer Ralph Peterson, born in 1962, was a charismatic virtuoso, a composer and conceptualist, a natural bandleader, a teacher and mentor, an eternal student of and advocate for the music. His death from cancer in 2021 was a painful loss. In 1988 and ’89, Peterson led three dates on Blue Note featuring pianist Geri Allen: V and Volition are both quintets, Triangular is a trio set. These three records, plus an additional three records (two by Ralph Peterson’s Fo’Tet, and a final quintet record), all on Blue Note, are out of print, not streaming anywhere in their complete form as of December 2022.