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Did anyone here WBCQ tonight?
At 0400UCT here at my QTH in Cincinnati, first time I EVER heard Ed 'literally'
plead for donations. I was taping the show to let my Dad hear it and hoping he read my letter I sent out Saturday with some money. But he didn't do the 'Amos & Andy' show itself tonight, he used their voices to ask for donations, I wonder how many (like he said) listen to the 12-14 minute show every night and leave it to others to send in two or five bucks? He literally said it tonight. "No donations and the show will forever be gone." He really means it too. It WILL be gone also because no one is going to acquire the original scripts (he won't sell em'~*he'd burn then first IMO~* and do the voices like he does. It's pretty sad IMO, that show is a HUGE part of Americana and just because cheap butts won't send it two dollars but listen to it, people like me aren't going to get to hear it anymore and I was just getting into the characters and storyline. If he takes it off the air due to those reasons, I can't do much, but I'll never send another cent to ANY broadcaster anywhere. Let em' fend for their selves or shut up (like apparently everyone else is doing) because I'm not giving you my money so you can hear for free...lol. These transmitters and relays and stuff don't run for free, not including his time and everything he said tonight that goes into making ONE show. I'll fire up my four scanners and transmitter and do my BCB dxing and forget shortwave and get my ticket. Just my take, was curious if anyone heard his pitiful characters begging for money, oh yeah, if you send in anything he said he will send you a color (I think) photograph of himself (Ed Bolton) behind the mic reading the scripts. I'm looking forward to getting mine, at least I'll have that to remind me of it. Thoughts anyone on him asking for small donations like that? ~*~*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* |
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html 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? p   ;   ; ~*~*Monitoring The AirWaves~*~ br &nbs p; *****GO BEARCATS***** br &nbs p; Hammarlund HQ129X /Heathkit Q Multiplier br &nbs p;   ; Hammarlund HQ140X br &nbs p; Multiple GE P-780's(GREAT BCB Radios) br &nbs p; RCA Victor *Strato- World* br &nbs p; RCA Victor RJC77W-K(Walnut Grain) br &nbs p; 1942 Zenith Wave Magnet 6G 601M br &nbs p; Cathedral/ Ross#2311/Rhapsody-MultiBand br &nbs p; DX100/394/398/399/402 br &nbs p; OMGS Transistor Eight/Realistic 12-1451 br &nbs p; Henry Kloss Model One/Bell+Howell br &nbs p; ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* br &nbs p; Alpha Delta DX Sloper 57ft. br &nbs p; 600ft. 12AWG. (non-terminated) br &nbs p; 120ft. 12 AWG Sloper br &nbs p; 2 Radio Shack Loop Antennas br &nbs p; Radio Shack Amplified Antenna br &nbs p; 30X30 DiamondLoop(six section 830pf Cap) br &nbs p; * Diamond Loop mounted to Lazy Susan TurnTable* br &nbs p; *21/2X2ft.FiveSpoked~Penta-Loop~PancakeLoop* br /blockquote /html |
"GO BEARCATS" wrote in message ... He literally said it tonight. "No donations and the show will forever be gone." He really means it too. It WILL be gone also because no one is going to acquire the original scripts Bye Bye! Another WBCQ weirdo fades away in the wind with the wind-powered propeller generator. Dis means more airtime for Brother Stair? - Woooooo Hooo!!!!! |
GO BEARCATS wrote: At 0400UCT here at my QTH in Cincinnati, first time I EVER heard Ed 'literally' plead for donations. I was taping the show to let my Dad hear it and hoping he read my letter I sent out Saturday with some money. But he didn't do the 'Amos & Andy' show itself tonight, he used their voices to ask for donations, I wonder how many (like he said) listen to the 12-14 minute show every night and leave it to others to send in two or five bucks? He literally said it tonight. "No donations and the show will forever be gone." He really means it too. It WILL be gone also because no one is going to acquire the original scripts (he won't sell em'~*he'd burn then first IMO~* and do the voices like he does. It's pretty sad IMO, that show is a HUGE part of Americana and just because cheap butts won't send it two dollars but listen to it, people like me aren't going to get to hear it anymore and I was just getting into the characters and storyline. Maybe it's not a case of 'cheap butts' not sending in any money, but rather the possibility that there are actually very few listeners? If he takes it off the air due to those reasons, I can't do much, but I'll never send another cent to ANY broadcaster anywhere. Let em' fend for their selves or shut up (like apparently everyone else is doing) because I'm not giving you my money so you can hear for free...lol. These transmitters and relays and stuff don't run for free, not including his time and everything he said tonight that goes into making ONE show. I'll fire up my four scanners and transmitter and do my BCB dxing and forget shortwave and get my ticket. Just my take, was curious if anyone heard his pitiful characters begging for money, oh yeah, if you send in anything he said he will send you a color (I think) photograph of himself (Ed Bolton) behind the mic reading the scripts. I'm looking forward to getting mine, at least I'll have that to remind me of it. Thoughts anyone on him asking for small donations like that? He can ask all he wants, but as I've mentioned above there may actually be very few listeners. As with anything like that, only a percentage of listeners would send in money anyway. Ask NPR! ~*~*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* |
"N8KDV" wrote: | Maybe it's not a case of 'cheap butts' not sending in any money, but rather the | possibility that there are actually very few listeners? Cha-CHING! We have a winnah! Anus 'n Andy just is not interesting to me. 73, Steve Lawrence KAØPMD Burnsville, Minnesota (NOTE: My email address has only one "dot." You'll have to edit out the one between the "7" and the "3" in my email address if you wish to reply via email) --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.634 / Virus Database: 406 - Release Date: 3/18/04 |
"GO BEARCATS" wrote in message ... At 0400UCT here at my QTH in Cincinnati, first time I EVER heard Ed 'literally' plead for donations. I was taping the show to let my Dad hear it and hoping he read my letter I sent out Saturday with some money. But he didn't do the 'Amos & Andy' show itself tonight, he used their voices to ask for donations, I wonder how many (like he said) listen to the 12-14 minute show every night and leave it to others to send in two or five bucks? How many people are even casual listeners of the show? Maybe not many. I've heard it a couple of times, and I haven't made the effort to remember what time and day it's on. I don't see any reason to think the show is popular. He literally said it tonight. "No donations and the show will forever be gone." He really means it too. It WILL be gone also because no one is going to acquire the original scripts (he won't sell em'~*he'd burn then first IMO~* and do the voices like he does. The original show is gone. It wasn't recorded. If some guy wants to recreate the show from the old scripts, that's nice but it's only a recreation. If he's go a public spirited interest in preserving what's left of the original show, I'll suggest he should donate the scripts to a museum. Or he could scan them and post them on the internet. If he scanned the scripts using OCR, he could reduce the scans to text files and post them to one of the old time radio groups. It's pretty sad IMO, that show is a HUGE part of Americana and just because cheap butts won't send it two dollars but listen to it, people like me aren't going to get to hear it anymore and I was just getting into the characters and storyline. If he takes it off the air due to those reasons, I can't do much, but I'll never send another cent to ANY broadcaster anywhere. Let em' fend for their selves or shut up (like apparently everyone else is doing) because I'm not giving you my money so you can hear for free...lol. Everybody? What evidence is there that this show is popular with everybody? These transmitters and relays and stuff don't run for free, not including his time and everything he said tonight that goes into making ONE show. He's hobby broadcasting. There's no reason to complain about the difficulties of a hobby. He can drop hobby broadcasting and build his own airplane or research the cooking utensils of the Civil War or learn all the Asian languages. I'll fire up my four scanners and transmitter and do my BCB dxing and forget shortwave and get my ticket. That's the idea. Don't complain about your hobby, just do something else. Just my take, was curious if anyone heard his pitiful characters begging for money, oh yeah, if you send in anything he said he will send you a color (I think) photograph of himself (Ed Bolton) behind the mic reading the scripts. I'm looking forward to getting mine, at least I'll have that to remind me of it. Thoughts anyone on him asking for small donations like that? He has every right to ask, and if he doesn't get enough, he should take the hint and cover all his hobby expenses. If he wants to share the history of these old scripts, he can scan them and post them on the internet. This would cost very little. If he wants to preserve the historical value of the scipts, he can donate them to the Museum of Broadcasting. Frank Dresser |
GO BEARCATS wrote:
He literally said it tonight. "No donations and the show will forever be gone." He really means it too. It WILL be gone also because no one is going to acquire the original scripts (he won't sell em'~*he'd burn then first IMO~* and do the voices like he does. It's pretty sad IMO, that show is a HUGE part of Americana and just because cheap butts won't send it two dollars but listen to it, people like me aren't going to get to hear it anymore and I was just getting into the characters and storyline. The original "Amos & Andy" broadcasts are available on CD for anyone who enjoys that kind of thing. Art |
"eggs" wrote ...
Bye Bye! Another WBCQ weirdo fades away in the wind with the wind-powered propeller generator. Does means more airtime for Brother Stair? - Woooooo Hooo!!!!! Good catch .. one thing the profit needs is more air time. And one thing we need on shortwave is more profit Stair. Just ask Bro. Lawrence. |
Bye Bye! Another WBCQ weirdo fades away
in the wind with the wind-powered propeller generator. Dis means more airtime for Brother Stair? - Woooooo Hooo!!!!! Huh? Weirdo? What are you talking about? The guy is doing 'Amos & Andy' from back in the 30's, he isn't a preacher.sheesh ~*~*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* |
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* |
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