Blaring the Cream anthem "I Feel Free," WBCN went on the air in March 1968 as an experiment in free-form rock on the fledgling FM radio band. It broadcast its final song, Pink Floyd's "Shine On You ...Crazy Diamond," in August 2009. In between, WBCN became the musical, cultural, and political voice of the young people of Boston and New England, sustaining a vibrant local music scene that launched such artists as the J. Geils Band, Aerosmith, James Taylor, Boston, the Cars, and the Dropkick Murphys, as well as paving the way for Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, U2, and many others. Along the way, WBCN both pioneered and defined progressive rock radio, the dominant format for a generation of listeners. Brilliantly told by Carter Alan-and featuring the voices of station insiders and the artists they loved-Radio Free Boston is the story of a city; of artistic freedom, of music and politics and identity; and of the cultural, technological, and financial forces that killed rock radio.
9XM Talking Davidson, Randall; Siemering, Bill
2006, 20060101
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These words crackled in the headphones of crystal sets around the country in 1921 as the University of Wisconsin radio station 9XM began its regular schedule of voice broadcasts. Randall Davidson ...provides the first comprehensive history of the University of Wisconsin radio station, WHA; affiliated state-owned station, WLBL; and the post-World War II FM stations that are the backbone of the network now known as Wisconsin Public Radio. 9XM Talking describes how, with homemade equipment and ideas developed from scratch, 9XM endured many struggles and became a tangible example of "the Wisconsin Idea," bringing the educational riches of the university to all the state's residents. From the beginning, those involved with the radio station felt it should provide a service for the practical use of Wisconsin citizens.     The book's informative chapters cover the programs that allowed the medium of radio to benefit farmers and homemakers, to bring world-class educators into isolated rural schoolrooms, and to teach people all over Wisconsin everything from literature to history to touch-typing, long before anyone came up with the term "distance learning." Davidson concludes by discussing the claim that WHA has to the title "Oldest Station in the Nation." This groundbreaking book is based on archival materials dating back to the 1900s and includes dozens of historic photos and illustrations, many of which have never been published before.   Winner, Book Award of Merit for best Wisconsin history book, Wisconsin Historical Society    
It is difficult to obtain many labeled Link Establishment (LE) behavior signals sent by non-cooperative short-wave radio stations. We propose a novel unidimensional Auxiliary Classifier Generative ...Adversarial Network (ACGAN) to get more signals and then use unidimensional DenseNet to recognize LE behaviors. Firstly, a few real samples were randomly selected from many real signals as the training set of unidimensional ACGAN. Then, the new training set was formed by combining real samples with fake samples generated by the trained ACGAN. In addition, the unidimensional convolutional auto-coder was proposed to describe the reliability of these generated samples. Finally, different LE behaviors could be recognized without the communication protocol standard by using the new training set to train unidimensional DenseNet. Experimental results revealed that unidimensional ACGAN effectively augmented the training set, thus improving the performance of recognition algorithm. When the number of original training samples was 400, 700, 1000, or 1300, the recognition accuracy of unidimensional ACGAN+DenseNet was 1.92, 6.16, 4.63, and 3.06% higher, respectively, than that of unidimensional DenseNet.
This work improves a LeNet model algorithm based on a signal’s bispectral features to recognize the communication behaviors of a non-collaborative short-wave radio station. At first, the mapping ...relationships between the burst waveforms and the communication behaviors of a radio station are analyzed. Then, bispectral features of simulated behavior signals are obtained as the input of the network. With regard to the recognition neural network, the structure of LeNet and the size of the convolutional kernel in LeNet are optimized. Finally, the five types of communication behavior are recognized by using the improved bispectral estimation matrix of signals and the ameliorated LeNet. The experimental results show that when the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values are 8, 10, or 15 dB, the recognition accuracy values of the improved algorithm reach 81.5%, 94.5%, and 99.3%, respectively. Compared with other algorithms, the training time cost and recognition accuracy of the proposed algorithm are lower and higher, respectively; thus, the proposed algorithm is of great practical value.
WBAA: 100 Years as the Voice of Purdue documents the
fascinating history of WBAA, Indiana's first radio station founded
at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, on April 4, 1922.
Richly ...illustrated with more than 150 photos, the book chronicles
the station's evolution over the years, while highlighting the
staff, students, and volunteers significant to WBAA's success.
WBAA began as a lab experiment conducted by Purdue electrical
engineering students in 1910. Later, the station became a vital
method for Purdue's Cooperative Extension Service to broadcast the
knowledge of the university, particularly agricultural news, to the
people of the state.
From the 1960s to 1980s, WBAA aired Purdue basketball and
football games, with station manager John DeCamp as the "Voice of
the Boilermakers." In 1971, WBAA became a member station of
National Public Radio (NPR), offering popular programming such as
All Things Considered and Morning Edition .
Listeners tuned into WBAA to hear classical, jazz, and
international music, along with in-depth news reporting. Mayors and
Purdue presidents aired weekly programs. WBAA gave a voice to arts
and community organizations.
Read about the invention of the first all-electronic television
by pioneering Purdue scientist Roscoe George; WBAA's long-running
School of the Air educational program deemed the
"invisible textbook"; and the Midwest Program on Airborne
Television Instruction (MPATI), an airplane that transmitted videos
to schools while flying over six Midwestern states in the
1960s.
Famous WBAA alumni include NBC sportscaster Chris Schenkel,
comedian Durward Kirby, Today Show newscaster Lew Wood,
Indiana State Representative Sheila Klinker, actress Karen Black,
and actor George Peppard, among others.
From the vacuum tube era to the digital age, this thoroughly
researched book brings to light the intriguing backstories of the
esteemed one hundred-year history of WBAA.
The Mobile Edge Computing is a novel prototype that was developed recently due to the benefits and expanding nature of electronic data-processing techniques close to broadcasting networks. In this ...context nowadays the uses of wireless cellular facilities have been increased drastically in quantity of cellular users and estimation tasks of the subscribers may be offloaded to network interface for remote implementation. Therefore, required information, and hence power consumption capacity of the base radio station has enhanced substantially. Additionally, this increases the running cost of the total system and also causes global-warming. So, referring to the base radio station power consumption capacity in Long-Term Evolution (LTE) has been the main impediment for merchants to become eco-friendly and valuable in the competing mobile industry. It needs an innovative process to develop Energy Efficient intercommunication in LTE networks. Significance of this study has involved vast research and a global investigation process. The active energy source assignment, equal load sharing, carrier accumulation and bandgap enlargement is therefore categorized in groups and projected in this study for the methods of energy conservation. Every single procedure has unique advantages and drawbacks, which leads to compromise amongst conservation of energy and additional performance for measuring the problems of research design. This study focuses on the different energy conservation methods for the LTE networks and briefly examines their usefulness through a complete comparative analysis. With the gradually increasing number of wireless customers an optimization problem is employed here to assess the LTE system performance and Energy Consumption Rate.
Radio 'Błyskawica', broadcasting during the Warsaw Uprising from the capital city of Poland, was the Second World War phenomenon - it was the only case during the war that from the occupied country a ...regular programme was broadcast. In the present article we try to show its activity from the human perspective, taking into consideration those who had a chance to broadcast but also listen to the station. Based on the personal testimonies gathered directly from around 95 witnesses of the Warsaw Uprising and indirectly via around 100 press articles published after the Second World War about this radio station, we describe the understanding of the mission of the station as well as the meaning of the station for the creators and the Warsaw insurgents.
The VII Ruzhnikov Readings, the annual scientifi c round table, took place at the Faculty of Journalism at Lomonosov Moscow State University on September 26, 2019. The fi rst time it were initiated ...in 2013 by the Associate Professor of the Department of Television and Radio Broadcasting O.V. Tikhonova in memory of Professor V.N. Ruzhnikov, a well-known theorist and historian of Russian radio journalism, author of many scientifi c publications. Based on the materials of the Ruzhnikov Readings, many scientifi c publications were published
It is difficult to recognize Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) behaviors of a short-wave radio station, if we do not acquire the radio station's communication protocol standard. A method is proposed ...to recognize different ALE behaviors by using an improved unidimensional DenseNet. In this work, we directly recognize ALE signals in physical layer without the radio station's communication protocol standard. Hence, we can avoid difficulties in demodulation, decryption and so on. Actually, the original DenseNet is used extensively in the field of computer vision, so the original DenseNet is firstly adapted for the unidimensional input. And then, two parallel dense blocks are used in our improved unidimensional DenseNet, which could improve the capability of network to extract ALE signals' deep features. The experimental results show that the proposed method is able to recognize different ALE behaviors of a short-wave radio station. And improved DenseNet has better recognition performance than simple DenseNet. The simple DenseNet only contains one dense block. Finally, the results of comparison experiments also show that some classic networks have worse performance in ALE behaviors recognition, such as LeNet-5, ResNet-34, and DenseNet-121.
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