Musical ramblings from the manager
Greetings – things are taking shape – we are running our new transmitter at 88.5 at 50 watts until we get the new equipment bay here – due to arrive in Mid-October. Moving the electronics from the hard to reach upper shelf where they have been since our last remodel in 1998 will make things […]
With all the talk about Elon Musk’s desire to make humanity a ‘multi-planet species’, it makes me kind of wonder who, exactly, will be the first human to (as Musk’s t-shirt proclaims), ‘Occupy Mars’. True, the first attempt to launch his massive Starship was a mixed success; the Super Heavy booster B7 did fly […]
Let us check and see if we will be getting our traditional (and spooky) Full Moon for Halloween this year. Rats! As Maxwell Smart used to say on Get Smart!, “Missed it by that much.” The Full Moon on October 28 means it will still be bright on All Hallow’s Eve, so you still have a […]
The disclaimer: I like music. I will listen to any type of music but there are some genres I can take or leave. I have listened to enough Punk rock, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, and hard core metal bands like Slipknot to know they aren’t my cup of tea. I understand why legions of […]
In his Your Place in Space feature printed in The Planetary Report’s June Solstice 2023 edition, Bill Nye opened this special OSIRIS-REx issue with some reflections about the probe’s seven year journey. As the president of The Planetary Society, Nye wanted to remind all the Society’s members that, “You share in missions like OSIRIS-REx. […]
As my 70th birthday crept up on me in the fall of 2023, I started thinking about how time passes between the end of one school year and the beginning of the next. My 60 years spent as an student in public school (K-12), college (5 years including grad school) and teaching (43 years in […]
Start your observations for September in the eastern sky in the hours before sunrise. Venus and Jupiter will be easy to find shining at -4.8 and -2.5, respectively. They will be the brightest objects in the sky not counting the Full Moon and the Sun. Venus will be due east in the lower part […]
First, let me apologize in advance for how many times we are going to say ‘Thank You’ in this FTV. There are only so many words that can fit what happened to WOAS-FM 88.5 in the past five months but the most important two are ‘Thank You’. We would be remiss to not thank […]
Dick Clark may have left this mortal coil in 2012, but it is a fair bet if one hears the phrase, ‘America’s oldest living teen-ager’, his smiling face will come to mind. Born on November 11, 1929, he was perfectly positioned to transition from the golden age of radio into that new fangled home […]
Quick update -The full story of John Carlisle and Ryan Garza from the Detroit Free Press visiting WOAS-FM to do a story on the station and our need for a new transmitter is out there. The Free Press posted the link for one day and now it comes up asking you to subscribe to view […]