Mike,
That's great!
Thanks for passing this along.
Don w6smb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:49 PM
Subject: Clear Channel Takes Over WWV
> Some of you may have caught this on Amateur Radio Newsline.
>
>
>
> The "announcement" of the takeover on the website below is even more
> funny
> than the audio on the Tick link.
>
> I once had a spoof of a job description for the position of WWV
> announcer,
> but it went away with a computer crash long ago.
>
> K5XU
>
>
> THAT FINAL ITEM: THE TICK
>
> And finally this week, most hams are well aware of time standard
> station
> WWV at Ft. Collins, Colorado . Its run by the National Institute of
> Standards and Technology and radiates 10,000 watts on 5, 10, and 15
> MHz;
> and 2500 watts on 2 point 5 and 20 MHz. And over the years WWV
> broadcasts time and frequency information 24 hours per day, 7 days per
> week to millions of listeners worldwide.
>
> Well now it appears to have an on-line rival. Well, one that's at
> least
> a tongue in cheek rival called "The Tick." Take a listen:
>
> --
>
> THE TICK HERE
>
> --
>
> The Tick is the creation of Douglas Grant, KD1TJ, who happens to own
> Lownoise Productions in Tucson, Arizona. We asked him to tell us how
> The Tick came about.
>
> --
> KD1TJ: "Back in the late 70's, about the time that I got my ham ticket
> and while I was still working in commercial radio, I turned a
> broadcaster and friend of mine onto shortwave listening, which I had
> been doing since the 60's. I sold him one of my used radios and he
> became familiar with what was on the dial. He would listen to Vladimir
> Posner on Radio Moscow, theatrical works on the BBC and all the other
> noises that you hear like WWV. So he and I used to joke about the
> announcements that might be heard on that time and frequency station
> if
> it were commercial radio, like -- all the time, all the time.
>
> "Fast forward to 2003. Another friend of mine had moved to Atlanta and
> was working as a television engineer for The Weather Channel. And he
> revealed that one of the local TV weathermen on the air in Atlanta was
> in fact one of the voices of WWV -- John Doyle.
>
> "So on a whim I wrote to John and I told him about some of the laughs
> we'd had at WWV's expense over the years and inquired if he might want
> to voice ome lines in order to create a spoof . And, to my delight he
> liked the idea, did some recording for me. What resulted is The Tick.
> The new WWV."
>
> --
>
> Grant tells Newsline that he has received lots of very positive
> feedback
> since he brought The Tick to the world of cyberspace several years
> ago.
> You can check out "The Tick" for yourself at
> www.lownoiserecords.com/wwv_the_tick.html
> (ARNewsline and The Tick)
>
>
>
>
>
> Mike Duke, K5XU
> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
>
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