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Author Topic: 10 Years ago Midnight In The Desert, with Art Bell, on WBCQ and WTWW.  (Read 2569 times)

Offline ThaDood

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Geez... It's been 10 years ago, when Art Bell tried to do his show Midnight In The Desert. I captured it from WBCQ.   https://archive.org/details/art-bell-midnight-in-the-desert-rec-test-boadcast-via-wbcq-7490k-hz-off-air-7-19-2015-edited  Then, used the wi-fi radio to keep on Keith Roland's, Dark Matter Digital Network, to run on my Part 15 AM stations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell%27s_Dark_Matter  Where the hell has the time gone? Hey... It was all a good try.
“I am often asked how radio works. Well, you see, wire telegraphy
is like a very long cat. You yank his tail in New York and he
meows in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? Now, radio is
exactly the same, except that there is no cat.”
-Attributed to Albert Einstein, but I ripped it from the latest Splatter .PDF March 2025 issue.

Offline NQC

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Hey Thadood,

I REALLY used to like Art's show. Some of the topics were VERY far out (and maybe total baloney). But Art was the first one to admit this.

Art was a VERY intelligent guy re the technical aspects of RF , all the way up into microwave.

But after he passed away, I never listened to any of the other hosts. It just wasn't the same .

I had never heard Art outside of the AM broadcast band, but had "heard" that other outlets (Shortwave and even pirate ) carried the show at times.

R.I.P. W6OBB/4F1AB/ SK

de NQC
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