Agreed the 30 is much better and better focused.
Ray T. Mahorney
WA4WGA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell Shandrow" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 17:40
Subject: Re: an interesting ham radio publicity item
Hi Tom,
On the League's longer PSA, I would rather hear real footage from the actual
communications in progress rather than the actor who sounds like he's
talking on a repeater... :-) The canned messages also focus too much on
radio lingo rather than on real, non-radio-related emergency traffic...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 3:28 PM
Subject: an interesting ham radio publicity item
> Hi, all.
>
>
> Check out the links in this story from this week's ARRL weekly news
> letter.
>
> Thanks to Dave Marthouse (N8OM) for his role in this.
>
> Hope you like it.
>
> Best 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
> ==>BIG APPLE BROADCASTER AMPS UP ARRL RADIO SPOT FOR LIMBAUGH NETWORK FILL
>
> ARRL Media and Public Relations Manager Allen Pitts, W1AGP, says it's nice
> to have friends in high places. One of the friends of Amateur Radio public
> relations is Howard Price, KA2QPJ, of New York City's WABC-TV (Channel 7).
> Pitts says Price--acting president of the Broadcast Employees Amateur
> Radio Society (BEARS) <
> http://www.w2abc.org/>,
>
> the ham radio organization
> at ABC TV and Radio in New York City and an ARRL Special Service
> Club--heard the League's new radio public service announcement (PSA) and
> had an idea.
>
> "He passed it on to Johnny Donovan, production director at WABC Radio in
> New York City, who dressed it up in one night and made it available as
> 'network fill' on The Rush Limbaugh Show," heard on hundreds of radio
> stations across the US. While most larger stations cover program breaks
> with paid advertising, many smaller stations don't, "and their listeners
> will hear this wonderfully enhanced PSA for ham radio," Pitts says.
>
> Voicing the beefed-up PSA was Donovan himself, a WABC legend and also a
> radio amateur. "Folks all over America will recognize his voice from
> commercial radio," Pitts said.
>
> ARRL has obtained permission to make the 30-second version of the radio
> PSA <
> http://www.arrl.org/pio/HAMWORKS30.mp3>
>
> featuring Donovan's voice
> available on the League's Web site for audition and distribution to radio
> stations. A 60-second version of the PSA
> <
> http://www.arrl.org/pio/60HamRadioWorks0105.mp3>,
>
> voiced by ARRL Media
> and Public Relations Manager Allen Pitts, W1AGP, and produced by Dave
> Marthouse, N2AAM, also is available.
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