Coming to you live from Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the introverts stare at their shoes, and the extroverts stare at yours...

I'm not actually in Minneapolis, by the way (although I have spent a fair bit of time at their airport lately).

I've decided that radio in the bay area sucks. Its not the programming, but they can't seem to figure out the technical aspects of things. its like nobody realizes (well, with the exception of the eight billion Spanish-language stations) that the terrain isn't exactly ideal for EM propogation around here. That, and they all seem to be using fairly low power transmitters for the audience they're trying to reach (usually about 50 kW, as opposed to the major stations in Nebraska, that all transmit at around 100 kW). I mean, I can barely pick up the signal from a country station in Stockton, which is about 20 miles away. Back in Lincoln, the big rock station in town comes through loud and clear, even when I'm in Omaha (owing mainly to the fact that the terrain around there is flatter than MIC-6 plate aluminum), but the impressive thing is that when I'm driving my car around town (my car doesn't have the best radio reception, mind you), I do pretty well picking up the signal from the student station at Iowa Western Community College.

Spotting at LVK, day 7. This is actually becoming rather repetitive. I think I've already taken pictures of all the planes that are within reach of my lens.

posted by Fred Gay @ 19:34