Transistorize Your iPod Video

You might remember one of the earliest entries on this site, "Transistorize Your iPod". Well, I sold the rights to publish it to Make Magazine, and an entire article appeared in Make Magazine Issue 13.


Now they've redone the whole thing as a video! Click below on the window, or if that doesn't work, click here to watch.


Transistorize Your IPod! - More amazing videos are a click away

Again, I think Apple should put this out soon.

AM Radio QSL Cards

Back in the old days, you could listen to the AM radio band at night and hear stations from all over the country. Of course, you can do that today, but they're all playing the same syndicated music format, so who cares? If you sent the station a letter telling them where you heard them, what time and what they were playing, they would send you a souvenir QSL card, usually signed by the station engineer. Here are a few blasts from the past, click for larger pics. Part 2 was added March 2008. See it here.



I was on Estero Island in Ft. Myers, Florida when I picked up WABC New York city.



WOWO Fort Wayne Indiana.


A blank QSL card I picked up when I worked at WSM Nashville in the 1970s.