Hour 3 of our Live broadcast on Iwebradio April 5, 2009.

This was a fill-in for Jen’s Mountain View Radio Program.

Hour 2 of our Live broadcast on Iwebradio April 5, 2009.

This was a fill-in for Jen’s Mountain View Radio Program.

Hour 1 of our Live broadcast on Iwebradio April 5, 2009. This was a fill-in for Jen’s Mountain View Radio Program.

I didn’t waste any time, this week I started the show with an Al Jolson selection!

Followed by SWL loggings from shortwave listeners.

Follow-up on my conversation the previous week with Sam Ward from Ontario, Canada.

I played audio clips of a shortwave band scan that I did during the preceding week. Near the peak of the sunspot cycle, the upper shortwave frequencies were booming with some rare SWL DX. 17, 21 and 25 mhz were booming.

Even on the Internet back in 2000, radio station audio content could be intermittent, especially since most of us were using dial-up 56k modems. I did an Internet international radio scan also, and played a few clips from that.

I played an audio clip of a TV station in Cleveland going dark (out of business) permanently in 1974 or 1975 (WKBF-TV Channel 61 Kaiser Broadcasting)

Another Al Jolson tune! And The Voice of Pancho Villa rides again.

Cybershortwave Live! March 19, 2000 (Special 2hr 46min)

We took a week off so that we could attend the 13th Annual Winter SWL Fest in Kulpsville, Pa.

When I returned to the broadcast on March 19th, I gave a report on fest activities, including interviews and new promos that I asked folks to do for Cybershortwave.

I took live telephone calls during the broadcast. Bill KA2EMZ, Mike Roberts, and Sam Ward in Ontario Canada provided interesting conversation. I also got a call from a research company taking a survey of my TV viewing habits. They had no idea I was doing a radio program, and the caller probably thought I was crazy when I told her that she was on the Internet. I turned the tables on her and asked her if she ever heard of The BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio Vlaanderen, etc. Hilarious, and it wasn’t planned. It just happened.

The tape I was using to archive the show with ran out at the end, so there is no goodbye theme.

Cybershortwave Live! March 5, 2000 (Special 3hr 21min)

In preparation for the 13th Annual Winter SWL Fest in Kulpsville, Pa. the following weekend (Which my family and I attended), we focused on “Music To Fest By”. The theme becomes very evident after a few musical selections.

I played an audio clip of my first time checking into the ANARC SWL Net in June 1988.

In addition, I spoke of the possibility of resurrecting the ANARC SWL NET with the restructuring of Ham Radio licenses in the states.

Hoping to get listeners interested in Ham Radio, I played an audio clip from 1992 of myself working a “JA” contest with Japanese stations. I was lucky to have a pipeline into Japan from my home in Ohio that evening.

I did an imaginary skit of me in Sun Studio back in the 1950’s issuing orders to Sam Phillips, as Johnny Cash was recording (this is one of those hokey skits that I never bothered to repeat in later broadcasts). The whole purpose was to provide an intro for the several re-takes that Johnny Cash did.

This was also a pre St. Patrick’s Day show with several Irish tunes.

Nobody said the “P” word, but we played 3 polkas in a row anyway.

And of course our ever present salute to Al Jolson, The World’s Greatest Entertainer.

Here's a short video from our live broadcast on December 23rd. Grandson, David makes his world radio premier!

Al Jolson is, and always will be “The World’s Greatest Entertainer”. There is not much video available of the real Al Jolson, save for a handful of movies he did in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. Here is Jolson doing a video made specifically for Larry Parks to study and attempt to re-create Jolson in the movie biography of Jolson’s life story.