http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/03/02/the-formation-of-a-bootleg-radio-fan-culture/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/03/02/the-formation-of-a-bootleg-radio-fan-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-441044 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:40:23 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=25614#comment-441044 At the time, the electrons were still “visible”, radio tubes or valves glowed in the dark and anyone with some technical knowledge knew what a triode or pentode was and what it was for. You could get another set and take out a valve and replace a broken one with it. You could manipulate the UHF FM receiver to better capture police frequencies and even turn a receiver into a transmitter (which in most states though was a criminal offense unless you had a ham license). These times have passed, I still started soldering “three-legged” transistors of Shockley origin, then micro integrated circuits came and it is now all mostly software, if you want to “hack” something.

]]> http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/03/02/the-formation-of-a-bootleg-radio-fan-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-440920 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:02:41 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=25614#comment-440920 Sal Trapani was a close and dear friend. I mourn his passing and miss him all the more as time passes. He and Ira Shpritzen – I always have trouble spelling his name – did a great deal to preserve interest in OTR.

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