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This #XIHADAQYT mini 📟 #amateurradio is their newest updated 2nd generation version. It is the KT-8900, dual band QUAD standby (HAM) radio that has the large LCD display. We also like that it has the cooling fan, external speaker jack and its program software is supported by CHIRP or MILKOR.This radio looks and feels to be very well made and is a typical small compact and basic radio measuring 4.96 inches by 4.05 with a and only weighs 2.3 lbs. The functions includes FM Radio, PTT ID, DTMF, remote stun, remote Kill, #repeater, alarm, monitor, high/low power with settings of (25W/10W). . .

Oh, and one more thing –– did you know that if you’re in the path of totality you can listen to radio stations from far away during the “daytime” as though it was night? All you need is access to a radio receiver with an AM band. You know, the part of the spectrum with talk radio shows, preaching, non-English stations and maybe “classic country”? Usually you can find it in the car or in an old person’s home (like mine, LOL). Anyway, you can try to hear these AM band stations broadcasting from the path of totality with their 50 kiloWatt flamethrower signals (if you can tolerate Mark Stein filling in for El Rushbo):

KXL-750 Portland KEX-1190 Portland KPNW-1120 Eugene, Oregon KBOI-670 Boise KSL-1160 Salt Lake City KTWO-1030 Casper, Wyoming KOA-850 Denver KRVN-880 Lexington, Central Nebraska KFAB-1110 Omaha WHO-1040 Des Moines KXEL-1540 Waterloo, Iowa KLRA-1010 Little Rock KMOX-1120 St. Louis WSM-650 Nashville WLAC-1510 Nashville WLW-700 Cincinnati WCKY-1530 Cincinnati WHAS-840 Louisville WSB-750 Atlanta WBT-1110 Charlotte WPTF-680 Raleigh

It was late one night long ago, when I was tuning around the FM dial trying out my new FM antennas and signal amplifier window to the world, and heard the faint sounds of the sitar wafting through my speakers, magically materializing to me through the static. I was surfing the radiowaves of the atmosphere and finding the whole experience to be rather mystical. After hearing a phone number mentioned I enthusiastically called. It was Diana Fabbri that answered the phone that evening, introducing me to the station in Provincetown as well as the concept of this free-form community radio idea. I eventually even visited WOMR, and soon started sending programs to the station. Best wishes for all sentient beings as we keep on surfing the ionosphere enjoying the analog and digital magic happening on the left-hand side of the FM dial, knowing that these signals are drifting out into a vast cosmos where they endlessly will continue to reverberate. -- James, Spiritual Awakening Radio

Indian Music Radio - Sounds of the Sitar: 

CC - AM

This "visual album" is part of Michael C Coldwell’s ongoing research into the ghostly properties of photography, video and radio - the aura of the obsolete medium and the sublation of the analogue by the digital, reality by simulation.

We are saturated in the incessant pulsing of invisible lights, their waves pass through walls and through our bodies without our noticing, carrying memories, pictures, music and strange signals.

Like some synesthesia machine, the radio allows us to tune into them, and listen to these lights.

However, as the digital revolution advances a desert has opened up in the once busy aether. The analogue airwaves are slowly dying. Huge tracks of AM radio have been abandoned for newer methods of broadcast. This album was created out of the odd scraps of sound left behind in the void - strange military signals, faint foreign stations and morse code flickering in a sea of unending noise and static.

Every sound used to make this music was recorded from a Sony ICF-2001D Synthesised Receiver, a worldband radio from the 1980s capable of picking up very long-distance signals. This machine is historically significant because of its role in Cold War espionage. It was used by Eastern-Bloc spies in the West to receive coded messages in the form of mysterious ‘numbers stations’, a very few of which still seem to be in operation.

Due to the way shortwave signals are reflected back off the ionosphere, the best time to record these distant signals is just before dawn.

Out now on Crooked Acres records

I don’t want to keep adding onto that really long post already, because that’s just not fun for ANYONE to scroll through. But if you want to read everything so you feel as if you are at least educated on what the whole matter is, that’s fine too.

But I saw some people who were stating that they had fears about not going to get a professional diagnosis via a doctor/therapist/psychiatrist/psychologist.

If you’re scared about professionals treating you different after you get a diagnosis, i.e. them no longer taking your physical ailments seriously due to you having a mental disorder, you have a bad doctor. That is a BAD doctor. A doctor needs to listen to their patients and needs to survey what a problem is before jumping on the “oh you have a disorder that alters your perception of reality, EHHH YOURE FINE.” That’s bad. You need a NEW doctor. It has nothing to do with you having a diagnosis on your medical history. That’s THEIR bad. That’s THEIR fault. You DESERVE to have that diagnosis.

If you’re scared about potential employers looking for your medical history and firing you for your mental disorder, that’s literally illegal. That is against Discrimination Laws. Your medical history is none of their concern and should never show up. If they go digging (your medical history is no where for them to find, it’s only for those with medical degrees to find, WHO actually require your consent to disclose that information between other medical professionals, you actually have to sign for them to do that) and they somehow find it, and they fire you, that is against the law. You don’t deserve some boss like that anyway. You deserve a better boss who won’t go snooping. That is not how the world should work. 

If you’re scared about now having a “label” slapped on you, as if that diagnosis is all you are, you aren’t. You will NEVER be Just Your Illness. That sort of encouragement is passed around on this site amongst hundreds of suggestion blogs, self care blogs, self love blogs. You are NOT suddenly just what is written on your medical history and you never will be.

Getting a professional diagnosis is meant to benefit you. You cannot, absolutely cannot get the proper treatment by getting over the counter medication because it will not be there for you to ask for. Those medications are carefully picked out for you. There are certain dosages required for each individual case and your case may not be the same as the next person (regardless if you both have the same diagnosis). It could damage you. It could worsen you. You may accidentally kill yourself if you do not follow the dosage given by a medical practitioner. 

Getting a professional diagnosis is meant to help you get better. Schizo- disorders require having both medication and talk therapy. It’s a hand in hand project. You don’t get to pick between one or the other. You have to put the effort needed into helping yourself. Getting a diagnosis helps the therapists or psychiatrists or psychologists to understand your needs from the get go, and after talking to you over a period of time, they understand you more and more. YOU also understand yourself more and more. None of this is an easy fix. It is a long and stressful and strenuous journey. But it will not be like this forever.

Amateur radio enthusiasts!

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