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I scanned across 7415 a few times last night. Didn't know that it was supposed
to be Amos & Andy; just heard someone asking for money. Thought maybe
NPR had gone SW .
pYou're right; this is a piece of Americana, even if it's not PC in this
day and age.
pI suspect that some SWLers might be avoiding WBCQ now that the preacher
has taken over more air time. But I guess it pays the bills.
pI'd probably kick in a few bucks to keep the program on the air. Can
you post their address?
pPete Davis
pGO BEARCATS wrote:
blockquote TYPE=CITEAt 0400UCT here at my QTH in Cincinnati, first time
I EVER heard Ed 'literally'
brplead for donations.  I was taping the show to let my Dad hear
it and hoping he
brread my letter I sent out Saturday with some money.
pBut he didn't do the 'Amos & Andy' show itself tonight, he used
their voices to
brask for donations,  I wonder how many (like he said) listen to
the 12-14 minute
brshow every night and leave it to others to send in two or five bucks?
pHe literally said it tonight.  "No donations and the show will
forever be
brgone." He really means it too.  It WILL be gone also because no
one is going to
bracquire the original scripts (he won't sell em'~*he'd burn then first
IMO~* and
brdo the voices like he does.  It's pretty sad IMO,  that show
is a HUGE part of
brAmericana and just because cheap butts won't send it two dollars but
listen to
brit, people like me aren't going to get to hear it anymore and I was
just
brgetting into the characters and storyline.
pIf he takes it off the air due to those reasons, I can't do much, but
I'll
brnever send another cent to ANY broadcaster anywhere.  Let em'
fend for their
brselves or shut up (like apparently everyone else is doing) because
I'm not
brgiving you my money so you can hear for free...lol.  These transmitters
and
brrelays and stuff don't run for free,  not including his time and
everything he
brsaid tonight that goes into making ONE show.
pI'll fire up my four scanners and transmitter and do my BCB dxing and
forget
brshortwave and get my ticket.
pJust my take, was curious if anyone heard his pitiful characters begging
for
brmoney, oh yeah, if you send in anything he said he will send you a
color (I
brthink) photograph of himself (Ed Bolton) behind the mic reading the
scripts.
brI'm looking forward to getting mine, at least I'll have that to remind
me of
brit.
pThoughts anyone on him asking for small donations like that?
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You're right; this is a piece of Americana, even if it's not PC in thisday
and age.

Yeah, I know Pete. I don't think of it as racist though. If my Dad would have
never told me about 'it'......and me just listening to it on sw, I'd have never
thought about that.

Isn't that sad? Shows 'how far' *we've* come as a country.

I'm sure Ed would appreciate it, I has sent him a letter of thanks, I felt I
owed him that, if not for me, for the joy 'Amos&Andy' gave my Grandma-Grandpa
and my Dad, you know?
I also enclosed my post to you all (I guess a week or two ago in here asking to
give him a hand. Then three or four nights later he said over the air that he
was going to start enclosing a pic of him doing the scripts, that's cool, I'll
frame it and hang it withall my KIPM qsl's and a few other real nice framed
QSL's I've received. :-)

Here's his address

Ed Bolton
4212 Jonestown Rd.
Harrisburg,Pa. 17109

I swear I know it by heart now. It's a neat show in the fact that he does it
on exactly the same day as it was aired in 1932 from the exact scripts and it's
like a soap opera, which I'm not into, but it was easy to 'catch on'~* and now
I know the characters.

Remember, it's on EVERY night at midnight UCT on 7.415 wherever you are and the
show is only 10 minutes or so, it's not like you're gonna be sitting for a
half hour or anything.

Take care.:-)

~*~*Monitoring The AirWaves~*~
*****GO BEARCATS*****
Hammarlund HQ129X /Heathkit Q Multiplier
Hammarlund HQ140X
Multiple GE P-780's(GREAT BCB Radios)
RCA Victor *Strato- World*
RCA Victor RJC77W-K(Walnut Grain)
1942 Zenith Wave Magnet 6G 601M
Cathedral/ Ross#2311/Rhapsody-MultiBand
DX100/394/398/399/402
OMGS Transistor Eight/Realistic 12-1451
Henry Kloss Model One/Bell+Howell
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Alpha Delta DX Sloper 57ft.
600ft. 12AWG. (non-terminated)
120ft. 12 AWG Sloper
2 Radio Shack Loop Antennas
Radio Shack Amplified Antenna
30X30 DiamondLoop(six section 830pf Cap)
* Diamond Loop mounted to Lazy Susan TurnTable*
*21/2X2ft.FiveSpoked~Penta-Loop~PancakeLoop*