Interestingly enough the third class F.C.C Broadcast License in the mail a year later for just filling out an application.īut in any case, back to that icy morning thirty years ago when I said to Jim Cox shortly after he climbed down from scrapping the ice off the transmitter tower an as we were watching all tubes and dials warm up as we went though all the steps necessary to start transmitting, that we are doing that all over the world people would literally die to have a chance to do. Well in any case Jim just informed me (in our cell phone conversation) that in order for him to get the third class F.C.C Broadcast License he and our long time friends Hank Luttrell and Richard Russell had make a eight hour round trip to downtown Chicago from Madison and take a several hour test in order to be a radio broadcaster.
Incidentally WISCON is now in its 30th year and will be held at The Concourse Hotel in Madison over Memorial day week end, but if you want to attend you better get your membership in since they are placing a cap on registration at one thousand.Īfter having said that I am going back to a cold morning exactly thirty years ago when Jim and I had signed up to put Community Radio W.O.R.T on the air at the air at 6:00 A.M since the F.C.C License required that it be on the air twenty hours a week twenty seven three hundred and sixty days a year. Well Jim and I did most of our salt eating about thirty two years ago with our stints together helping to found a number of organizations in Madison Wisconsin including the community radio station W.O.R.T, Public Access Cable Television, The Madison Science Fiction Club, and, WISCON (the world’s largest and only feminist science fiction convention held annually in Madison Wisconsin). “In order to get to know a man you have to eat a pod of salt with him.” Well for those of you that don’t know a pod is an Imperial Russian unit of weight equal to thirty two pounds.
This month I will start bookshelf with a Russian proverb which goes something like this. I called James Andrew Cox (my editor and chief at the Midwest Book Review) a few minutes ago and gave him notice that he would be mentioning him in this month's "Kaveny’s Bookshelf". I am happy to be alive, proud to be an American. Book Lover Resources, Advice for Writers and Publishers