Tuesday, June 7, 2022

My Radios and Radio Equipment: Panasonic RX-CT850

Continuing to catalog my equipment from the now past years that has something to do with the subject of this blog which is radio, and here is my 1998 Panasonic RX-CT850 portable double cassette player and radio.

Bought by yours truly personally in the now distant year 1998.

It is noted for having a rather rare function - certainly now - a cassette tape karaoke function with a mixing microphone in (microphone supplied with the unit but not pictured here), a digital echo nob and a voice mute button which was supposed to cut the vocals on the played track so you could supply your own via mic.

It my recollection, it didn't work very well but then I was nothing much of a Karaoke singer.


It had a four-band radio, including two of my favorite Shortwave bands.

Here is another look at those karaoke controls.



It also had an auxiliary input meant originally for signal from a CD player but can be used to play mp3 devices.


Cheers!






Wednesday, March 9, 2022

New Radio Stations

In radio news, a new Internet radio website based.

Radio Combat FM 91.9 MHz - Radio of the LPR People's Militias now battling AFU forces.




Also in Radio news, it appears Russian-language radio is now on Southern Ukraine.



Friday, February 18, 2022

Ostankino TV and Radio Tower

 Ostankino television and radio tower in Moscow in wintertime fragment.

Nikon P900 zoom handheld and shaking, zooming in on the mid-section of the tower.

Formerly, the world's tallest building, as of 2022, it is the tallest free-standing structure in Europe and 11th tallest in the world. 

Between 1967 and 1974, it was the tallest in the world. 

The tower was the first free-standing structure to exceed 500 m (1,600 ft) in height. 

Construction began in 1963 and was completed in 1967. 

It surpassed the Empire State Building to become the tallest free-standing structure in the world. 

The Ostankino Tower remained the second-tallest free-standing structure in the world for another 32 years until the Burj Khalifa surpassed both it and the CN Tower in height in 2007. 

The Ostankino Tower has remained the tallest structure in Europe for over 50 years.

It is used as a television and radio tower basically a giant antenna and also have visitor facilities an observation deck and a restaurant.

It used to broadcast analog TV channels which were turned off in 2019.

Currently it is used to transmit dozens of DVB-T2 TV channels and about 25 FM channels.



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