I worked for WDHA in Dover, NJ a rock station. WXMC was an AM station that it turns out was a bit of a tax write off. I had also worked at a couple commercial stations by then. I brought my cassette recorder and arranged to record it with the guys there for WFMU. I once got a board tape for a Kevin Ayers show. I didn’t know a thing about cutting tape in those days, so the editing wasn’t so great! at Maxwell’s in Hoboken?įor WCCM, on a handheld cassette recorder. We broadcast to the campus and a couple of cafeterias. It wasn’t on the air it was just a carrier current station – it runs over the wires of whatever circuitry you’ve got wired up to it, like a PA. I was working part-time and going to school part-time, but I felt like I was majoring in radio because I spent so much time at WCCM there. They didn’t have a radio major, so I majored in journalism. I went to County College of Morris, in New Jersey – a commuter college. We just had to follow FCC rules, so no cursing.ĭid you learn basic signal flow from recording the live recordings or from the radio show? I had my own three-hour air slot, and I could pretty much play anything I wanted. I was playing around with the tape deck a lot. It was pretty eclectic.ĭid you get time alone in the studio to experiment on your own? A lot of prog rock and a lot of folk music. What kind of music were you playing back then?Įmerson, Lake & Palmer, Yes, The Beatles, and The Incredible String Band. “How do you determine the power of the station?” There were a lot of math equations also. In those days you had to take a test to get your Third Class Radio Operators license. It was pretty primitive, but it worked well.ĭefinitely. It was originally tube gear he made it all into integrated circuits and rewired everything. He built it on his own, got a mixing board, and reworked everything inside. He was a physics teacher and had a hobby in radio, so he got all of this castoff equipment from ABC TV. Who was running the radio program at the high school?īruce Lontka. I only did it a few times, but I was hooked. I’d plug into their system and get a feed.
I think I still have some of those tapes.Ī Revox or TEAC 1/4-inch, 4-track machine. Somebody thought it’d be a good idea to send me there with a reel-to-reel tape recorder to record some of those performances to play back on the air. There was a local church that had a coffeehouse, and local folk musicians would come in and sing. I also listened to Jonathan Schwartz, who, weirdly, I now work with.ĭid you record any live music in high school? Mostly WNEW FM and Alison Steele, The Nightbird. She knew Morse code, and used to listen for enemy warships in World War II.ĭid you listen to a lot of radio as a kid? It reached three towns away, 10 watts! I took an interest because my mother was in the Navy and worked as a Radioman in the war. I had heard about the school radio station, Morristown High School, WJSV.
I would just crumble into a ball if you asked me to go up and talk to somebody. I was the shyest person in the world, and I couldn’t talk to people.
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