The Radio Kitchen

If you’re intersted, you can read more about my inspiration for undertaking this blog, and my interests in doing so here. But suffice to say that this blog will present reflections and ruminations on old-fashioned broadcasting, as well as accompanying audio you can easily stream or download as MP3’s to your computer or portable player. If you have questions about how to use this site and hear the audio, please check here. 

However, my intention is not just to offer my own opinions and radio recordings, but to provide a forum where other listeners and DXers can offer their own airchecks and bandscans as posts as well. I’m working on providing functionality on the site where people can easily upload their audio and blog about it here, but it’s not quite ready at this writing. But that doesn’t mean you can’t share airchecks and bandscans here right away. It’s just not as simple as it should be very soon. Read about how and why you might want to contribute (and blog) your recordings here.

Okay, that’s the news. Things may be a bit shaky around here for few weeks as I work out the bugs and get used to operating the equipment (if you know what I mean). If something doesn’t work, you see a typo or find some other odd problem, please send me an email. And I always appreciate any feedback offered to make this site better.

You may notice (and I should admit) that this site has a very similar sister blog: The Audio Kitchen. While I do wonder if it’s a bit counter-intuitive to start two blogs at the same time, I bravely (or unwittingly went ahead and) decided to create two different web venues dedicated to a couple of my personal fascinations. In my judgement, the subject matter of each is little too divergent to occupy the same forum. However, they both elucidate (at least) two sides of my fascination with fringe media and lo-fi audio. But I like to focus, and as a blogger I prefer to write about what interests me and not about myself. I suspect that some may find something of interest in both blogs, but the only radio you’re likely to hear on my other blog will be little kids pretending to be DJ’s.

I’m still a little technically wet behind the ears, and the debut of these two blogs is the result of a long and somewhat trying ordeal of planning, listening, learning, typing and configuring. And it’s not over yet. But the time has come to quit fooling around and make it real. And speaking of that, let me close this inaugural post by thanking two new friends I made along the way to getting these projects off the ground. I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to Amy and Cam, who offered me a helping hand when I really needed it and made all the difference in making both of these blogs a reality before I lost my mind. And a special thank you to Amy, for making them look so nice.

I hope you’ll have fun visiting The Radio Kitchen.