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The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord
Jesus Christ
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August
15, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 591
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Over
the next two weeks, we are going
to give you the radio experience
of a lifetime. More than that, it
is the story of humankind's
eternal salvation, won at the
Cross of Christ, and you are going
to come as close as you ever will
to actually being there, because
you are going to hear the
eyewitness account of someone who
actually was. Sr. Anne Catherine
Emmerich is one of the most
quietly unusual and humble of all
of the Catholic mystics, yet the
power of her testimony is
unequaled by any of the many
others. Most of the reason for
this is what she saw, which is
detailed, first person visions of
the crucifixion of Christ. I
suppose today this is what they
call "remote viewing," for that is
certainly what it was. There is an
intimacy, and a reality to what
you will hear that transcends
time, space and history, and such
a simple, loving honesty in the
way the most intimate of details
are described that the listener
cannot help but get caught up in
what is transpiring. You are there
with as little and as humble a
person as was Anne Catherine
Emmerich, and in contrast to her
person, the story she relates is
by far the greatest ever told. Let
yourself get caught up in it, and
it will transform you just like it
did all those who witnessed it
then, like it did Anne Catherine
Emmerich, and like it has done for
so many others before and since.
But beware! The journey from
darkness into light is arduous and
painful. What the LORD endured for
all He also endured for you. Here
is your chance to participate in
it with Him. It is not for the
faint of heart.
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August
16, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 592
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All
the themes of humanity's struggle are
played out in this Passion Play of
human history that we are beholding,
as it is unfolding before us night by
night. While Christ's victory over
death is certainly the greatest ever
to be celebrated, we shouldn't
overlook the defeat of the world that
brought it about. The ancient world
was an old, tired, cynical and worn
out place when Jesus came along. The
pagan gods had deserted the decadent
and thoroughly secularized Romans long
before this, and the bloated, fake
religious infrastructure of payments
for oracles proclaimed, and imagined
favors received, flourished only as a
sideshow for the ever present suckers
of the age. In reality, they had no
god but Caesar, and as long as he got
his cut, Caesar could care less. Same
as the Jews. They took the Holy One of
Israel and translated Him into 613
laws to be obeyed or else. The "or
else" ended up being the Cross, which
is what happened when Jesus showed up
and called all of this into question.
The institution of government, and the
institution of religion, teamed up and
came up with the perfect solution to
the Jesus problem. The Jewish
authorities demanded crucifixion and
the Roman authorities provided it. It
should be obvious that such
authorities would be forever condemned
for such an act of deicide, yet to
this day it escapes so many.
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August
17, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 593
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Betrayal
and denial are the themes that
pursue us relentlessly in the
retelling of this ancient tale, just
as they pursued, subdued and
overcame Our LORD Himself. The
failings of humanity as seen through
God's eyes do not paint a pretty
picture of who we are, what we are
all about, and what our human
motivations truly are. How easily
the evil we pretend to eschew is
revealed to be present and lurking
just below the surface; present in
all of us and tainting all that we
do. And gathered humanity never
rises to the occasion of doing what
is right, but descends always to the
level of the mob; demanding some
sort of misplaced justice for wrongs
and slights, either real or
imagined. Like packs of dogs, packs
of men default to the lowest common
denominator, and who knows this
better than the petty tyrants who
run the temple, except perhaps the
petty tyrant who runs the show for
the ever-present Roman dictators.
Their alliance is perfectly
predictable and understandable.
Before power came from the barrel of
a gun it came at the point of a
sword or lance, and for the few
maintaining power over the many in
this way, peace is always a tenuous
matter, modulated by the tension
between fear and anger. Justice
denied one is justice denied all,
and if God Himself is exempted from
human justice, then what does that
portend for all of the rest of us?
Exactly what Jesus said we were
going to get, which is no different
than what they did to Him.
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August
18, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 594 |
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The
Jews. Those words conjure many
different emotions, and those emotions
have been blamed for numerous
atrocities, both told and untold,
committed by and against those so
described, and for lo these many
generations. What if God really did
show up and He was neither a Pharisee
nor a Sadducee; neither a Herodian,
nor a Hellenist? What if God was like
Jesus? What if He was on no one's side
at all and wondered why it was that no
one was on His? Why, the tension would
be absolutely palpable, wouldn't it?
It would be exactly what we find here
in these tales of the visions of
Sister Anne Emmerich, and it is the
mood of this strange time, and these
bizarre events, as she relates all of
this in her simple way, that makes it
all seem so real and lifelike. You
don't just hear the old familiar story
of Jesus, fleshed out like this in
such surreal detail, you actually feel
what it was like to be there and to be
witness to the events that condemned
the world, and, in turn, saved those
souls so freed from it. By now the
listener realizes that there is no
neutral ground. There is no hanging
back to see what will happen. What we
are confronted with when we are
confronted with the person of Jesus is
the same thing everyone in these
visions is confronted with: their own
human mortality. He is either the
solution to it or it is all a lie. And
it is how you decide this question
within yourself that determines your
fate for all eternity. The tension
really should be palpable, don't you
think?
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August
19, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 595 |
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It
should surprise no one to learn that
Pontius Pilate was a social and
political climbing animal from the
ranks of the Roman military, who had
bullied his wife's standing as the
sister of Tiberius into the worst
assignment in the Roman Empire:
Procurator of Judea. By the time he
figured out that this is where
political careers like his were sent
to die, his was already dead. And, if
it wasn't for the various remaining
progeny of Herod the Great who ruled
around him, Pilate would have been the
most hated man in all of Palestine.
His lack of even this relevance among
the Jews he ruled over was seen as a
sign of his inherent impotence by his
Roman betters, and every decision he
made was under intense scrutiny, so as
to be held up as proof of his ongoing
and growing incompetence. Into this
tension was thrust the trial of Jesus,
all tied up in a nice, neat bundle by
the Sanhedrin, and all carefully
calculated to unravel in such a way so
as to prompt Pilate to do exactly what
he subsequently did, which was to make
a string of colossally bad decisions.
According to some apocryphal accounts,
he was a witness to the Risen LORD and
was converted, and the letters he
supposedly wrote to Tiberius
concerning Jesus surely make for an
interesting read. Tradition says he
lost his head to the Romans for
crucifying Christ, which is just
ironic enough to be true, or at least
it should be.
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August
22, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 596 |
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Of
the many lessons both subtle and not
so much that the story of the Passion
of Christ reveals is the lesson of the
free and fair election. By this time,
the hand wringing and hand washing of
Pilate has only proven that blood is
harder to wash off one's hands than
one might think. And if the mob has
decided that we're going to have
government by mob rule, why not just
put it to a vote? Even the drunken
sheriff in a spaghetti western knows
that there is no point in putting the
lynching up to the vote of the lynch
mob, but this is somehow lost on
Pilate. The fact that there is a lynch
mob demonstrates that such an election
has already taken place, and the
result has already been determined in
the negative for the person about to
be lynched. So, it's not like Pilate
doesn't already know the outcome, it's
just that he is so desperate for a way
out of this mess when there isn't any,
that he'll even try to slide the blame
off on the very mob he whipped up into
this frenzy by refusing to execute
Jesus to begin with. Here's the easy
way out: let's put it to a vote. The
murderous insurrectionist Barabbas? Or
the King of the Jews Himself, Jesus of
Nazareth? If you listen carefully when
it is very quiet, you can still here
the answer resounding in fading echo
from that fateful day to this: "Give
us Barabbas! Give us Barabbas!" And as
for God's answer to our demands for
free and fair elections? "If it is
Barabbas you want, then it is Barabbas
you shall have!"
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August
23, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 597 |
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If
it wasn't for knowing what is still to
come, one might think that the Way of
the Cross is about as wretched as
humanity ever behaves. We do, however,
always seem to manage to exceed our
own expectations when it comes to
wickedness. If this isn't the
absolutely nastiest treatment one
human being can receive at the hand of
his fellows, it will surely suffice to
make the point of man's inhumanity to
man. That God Almighty would manifest
Himself in this most completely
lovable of all human beings and then
be subjected to this kind of treatment
is off the scale of horror set by even
the most demented minds of Hollywood,
though they surely must admire the
devil for his creativity in pulling
this off the way he did. No doubt his
hoof prints are already found in many
places along the "Walk of Fame," and
it is his lifetime achievement award
that sets the standards by which all
the others are judged. Keep that in
mind when you watch The Passion of
the Christ, and never forget
that there are those in your midst who
cheer just as hard, and often in
silence, for the other side. The
journey to Calvary sorts the hearts
and minds of men into but the two
basic camps that there are. Those who
are drawn to Him in His pain and
suffering, and see in this what it
really is. And those who deny Him,
betray Him, and either jeer at him
loudly and openly, or, more often, do
so in the silence of their hearts.
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August
24, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 598 |
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Perhaps
it is because she is such a meek soul,
or perhaps it is just because she is
this humble that Sister Anne Emmerich
is able to describe the most
stupendous event in human history in
the matter of fact way that she does.
It certainly doesn't detract from the
dramatic nature of what is happening.
To the contrary, her calm in the sea
of chaos surrounding the final moments
of Our LORD, and the ensuing events
that transpired during the first hour
after his passing, is all the more
effective at conveying the true nature
of all of this, as much as is humanly
possible anyway. It never occurs to
the post-modern commentators that the
actual accounts of what happened on
that fateful Friday afternoon might
have been edited to soften the
supernatural blow involved rather than
enhance it, as is always supposed by
the cynics, the critics and the
scholars. Just why are they always so
anxious to remove God as the author of
any possible explanation to any of
this, when the story He tells is
certainly the most plausible, not to
mention the most hopeful? When Sister
Emmerich passed along these visions in
the early 19th century, the stirrings
of unbelief among the learned had
already made visible inroads into the
faith of the Church hierarchy, which
is for whom these visions were
intended. If there is any irony
greater than the lack of faith among
the highest of the churchmen, it's
hard to fathom. Except, perhaps, when
it erupts without warning among the
vilest of the heathen. He doth indeed
work in mysterious ways.
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August
25, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 599 |
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"It
is finished!" And, at the same time,
it is all poised and just about ready
to begin. What a fascinating moment in
history to behold. Even the Church in
this mocking and sacrilegious time of
Pope Francis still pauses from the
idiocy of its daily routine to observe
the divine liturgy for Holy Week, Good
Friday and Easter. And the key to
understanding it all is found in the
observed silence of Holy Saturday.
What we learn from the visions of
Sister Anne Emmerich concerning this
is what we would expect. Hell is
harrowed, the souls of the dead are
freed, and Christ reigns eternal in
heaven, all before the faithful are
even aware that the miracle of
miracles has already taken place, and
death has been vanquished forever.
There is nothing to do on Holy
Saturday but to ponder this in one's
heart and rejoice at what it means
going forward. And go forward it
shall, with a shout and a tumult, and
shortly hereafter nothing will ever be
the same again, as the history of the
world has now been determined, and it
begins to move towards its inevitable
conclusion. But on this day, that all
remains unknown, and Christ lies dead
in the tomb, at least as far as anyone
knows. There is a peace in this that
overcomes the gloom somehow. And a
hope that transcends the hopelessness
of the moment. Those who have this
know what I mean. And those who don't
should pray to possess it while this
brief moment of silence remains.
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August
26, 2022
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The
Sixth Hour |
Program
No. 600 |
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And
so it is tonight that this long
journey with Sister Anne Catherine
Emmerich comes to a close. And you
will certainly want to listen to her
concluding comments, her remarks
concerning St. Longinus, and her
observations and further visions
concerning the most remarkable events
that have ever occurred. Most insist
that you should keep in mind her own
earnest comments, and those of the
churchmen of her time, concerning
giving this more historical credence
than it truly deserves. The point most
miss is that what you have heard
during these past two weeks of
programs transcends mere history, as
well as explains it, and submitting
this to the scrutiny of academic
historical method is both as
unnecessary and undesirable as it is
distasteful. It is a situation similar
to that of the scientists who have
repeatedly dissected the Holy Shroud,
only to discover what the faithful
have known all along, when they care
to admit it. They have given us the
autopsy report on Jesus while claiming
no intention to do so, and they would
insist on performing such an autopsy
on his earthly remains if it was not
for the fact that their own research
suggests they disappeared in an
unexplained burst of energy. Yet even
among those who have seen such things
with science as we have heard here
from Sister Emmerich there is
widespread unbelief. In the end, that
is why this remains merely a
meditation; a meditation like no other
to be sure, but a meditation none the
less. As such, the real benefit gained
is an eternal as well as an internal
one, and should in no way be
considered trifling.
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The
Sixth Hour - 2022
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| RNJ Staff |
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Chaplain
Phil
Chaplain Phil grew up
listening to alternative points of
view, and the underground
perspective, that characterized
late night AM and shortwave radio
in the 1960's. In the cold
winter months following the events
that transpired in Dallas on
November 22, 1963, he came to
realize that the death of
President Kennedy represented an
even deeper and more profound
tragedy - the death of the nation.
In the summer of 1964, he read None
Dare Call It Treason by
John Stormer and understood how
this had come to pass. He
was 10 years old.
Through
the ensuing years, he has followed
the flow of free information, as
what we now call the "mainstream
media" banished independent
Christian broadcasting, and honest
political thought, from the AM band to shortwave, then
to the internet, and now, in the
face of internet censorship, back
to shortwave. After a
lifetime of listening, he now
feels the time has come to
speak. His message is
simple. We are living in a
godless false reality created for
the purpose of destroying most of
us and enslaving the rest.
The
time of Revelation is here. Take
heart. For what is being
revealed is the eternal truth of
Jesus Christ.
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Brian Helix -
News Director
As
one of the BBC's "Young
Lions," Brian Helix was
known for his honest
reporting and take no
prisoners attitude towards
the truth. He is an
expert on conspiracies and
the theories thereof, both
modern and classic, and a
top flight investigative
journalist. He
brings these talents along
with his many others to
the post of News Director
here at RNJ.
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Sally
Belle-Époque - Production
Manager
Sally
Belle-Époque made her mark in both
video production and A.I. research
with the famed Hanson Robotics in
Hong Kong, and now brings her
varied talents and unique skills
to bear as Production Manager at
RNJ. Sally is a no nonsense
professional with all the Left
Coast flair and style her
background as a "Valley Girl"
would suggest - a Silicone Valley
Girl.
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Catholic
Pirate Radio
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What
is Catholic Pirate
Radio?
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Pirate
radio or a pirate
radio station is a
radio station that
broadcasts without a
valid license.
Catholic Pirate
Radio is broadcast
without the official
sanction or approval
of the Catholic
Church, any of its
connected agencies
or organizations, or
any member of its
hierarchical
structure (bishops,
cardinals, pope,
etc.).
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Queen of Catholic Pirate Radio
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"You
see, God expects His people
to do the ridiculous so
He can do the
miraculous." - Mother
Angelica
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Father
Coughlin
Father
of Pirate Radio |
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Mother Angelica: Queen
of Catholic Pirate Radio
Mother Mary Angelica
founded the EWTN television
network, and, more
significantly for my purposes
here, WEWN, a global shortwave
broadcast service with
transmitters located in
Irondale, Alabama. In
the 1990's, Mother Angelica
became one of the most
dominant Christian voices on
the shortwave bands, and WEWN
a torch that beamed her
message of the truth of
believing and faithful
Catholicism across the nation
and the world. She was a
major influence concerning my
conversion to the Catholic
Faith in 2002, and it is
truthful to say that my
formation as a Catholic took
place with her over many
nights of listening to the
most powerful voice on 41
meters. She gets much
credit for her pioneering work
in Catholic television, while
her savvy for international
shortwave broadcasting goes
largely unheralded and is just
as significant. It made
her a worldwide voice for the
faith rather than just an
American phenomenon, and paved
the way for the globalization
of EWTN.
Mother Angelica
earned the title of Queen of
Catholic Pirate Radio when she
publicly took on and disputed
the apostate Archbishop of Los
Angeles, Roger
Cardinal Mahony,
concerning the Real Presence
of Jesus in the Holy
Eucharist. While Mahony
was unleashing his wrath upon
Mother all the way to Rome,
it should also be noted that
he retreated quickly and
issued a statement taking
offense at her for daring to
question his belief in the
Real Presence. Thanks to
Mother's widespread and
profound media influence, I'm
sure a lot of bishops, cut
from the same cloth as
Mahoney, also thought twice
about peddling the "Spirit of
Vatican II" nonsense in an
overt way that might end up on
TV.
Here's some vintage
Mother for you:
I’m so tired of you
liberal Church in America!
And everything you’ve ever
done has gone in silence.
Nothing, nothing you’ve done
– from your witchcraft to
your enneagrams to your
centering prayer to all
this ‘earth
spirituality’ to replacing
holy water with sand to
destroying our churches and
closing churches that are
viable and ready to go…no,
this is not an accident.
We’ve swallowed this now for
thirty years. I’m tired of
it. We have swallowed enough
of your idea of God! You
have, really, no God,
no dogma, no doctrine,
and no authority, because
the only authority in the
Catholic Church is
our Holy Father and the
Magisterium, and you have
disclaimed that. You don’t
believe in the Eucharist,
you don’t believe in the
Immaculate Conception, you
don’t believe in the Virgin
Birth, you don’t believe in
Mary’s power of
intercession, you don’t
believe in religious life,
you don’t believe in being a
spouse of Christ! You do believe in teaching
to little children in the
third grade sex education,
you do believe in forcing
centering prayer and forcing
inclusive language upon us,
and now you depict Jesus as
a woman?! You’re sick!
Nothing to add to
that. As a layman, my
duty as a Catholic is to point
out these things just as it
was Mother's duty as a
religious - a Carmelite
nun. She taught me
well. It's time for
Catholic Pirate Radio, the
next generation.
Father Charles
Coughlin: Father
of Pirate Radio
In
1926,
Father Charles Coughlin
first took to the airwaves
on WJR radio in Detroit to
denounce the Ku Klux Klan,
which had recently burned
crosses on the grounds of
his parish. Turning to
politics in 1929, Father
Coughlin quickly became a
dominant and highly
influential radio voice on
the CBS network, with a
weekly listening audience
estimated at 30,000,000
during the peak of his
popularity in the early
1930's. While at first
a fervent supporter of the
policies and person of
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, his views became
more controversial and his
rhetoric more strident as
the Great Depression
lingered on. By 1936,
he was expressing a
viewpoint that was
anti-capitalist and
anti-socialist, and invoked
no little controversy by
expressing a certain
sympathy concerning the
fascism of Benito Mussolini
and Adolph Hitler. He
was accused of anti-Semitism
based upon this and his
searing critique of the
European Jewish banking
establishment, which he
sought to qualify as
follows:
My purpose is to
help eradicate from the
world its mania for
persecution, to help align
all good men, Catholic and
Protestant, Jew and Gentile,
Christian and non-Christian,
in a battle to stamp out the
ferocity, the barbarism and
the hate of this bloody era.
I want the good Jews with
me, and I'm called a Jew
baiter, an anti-Semite.
My point here is not
to speak out for or against
Father Coughlin and his
political opinions, but merely
to point to him as an early
example of the efforts to
censor and silence unpopular
viewpoints. He remains
the textbook example of church
and state teaming up to remove
from public influence someone
deemed too controversial to
have his views heard by the
great unwashed masses of the
general public. The
Roosevelt Administration
determined a priori
that the First Amendment did
not apply to radio
broadcasting, and new
regulations and restrictions
were created specifically to
remove Father Coughlin from
the airwaves. For the
first time, public
broadcasters had to obtain a
permit and seek approval to
speak on the air, and this was
the impetus for those who
refused to do so taking to the
airwaves in protest: the birth
of pirate radio. While
Father Coughlin was able to
circumvent his banishment from
network broadcasting by buying
airtime on local stations, his
reach and influence were
drastically reduced. In
1942 he was ordered to remove
himself from public life by
Bishop Edward Aloysius
Mooney. He complied
without complaint and spent
the remainder of his career as
parish priest at the Shrine of
the Little Flower in Royal
Oak, Michigan. He
retired from active ministry
in 1966.
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to our broadcast facilities here at
RNJ. This is where Chaplain Phil and
our crew make the magic happen.
Stars of the Show are a Sweetwater Studio
Computer powering Jean and Ginger, two
1950 Canadian Philips Table Radios that
serve as broadcast monitors. That's Ginger
on the right channel, and Jean on the
left. Auxilliary Computer is "Old
Faithful," a 2009 Hewlett Packard (that's
like about a 1930 model in American Tube
Radio Years (ATRY). You'll also notice
three communication receivers, two 1959
Hallicrafters S-108's and a 1947 National
NC 57. Standby monitors include a 1937
Coronado 725 and 1953 Philco 53-960. It's
all sorted out through a Behringer Xenyx
802 Mixer. Our antenna array (not
shown) is an 80 foot sloping copper long
wire antenna, fastened to a Royal Palm and
running from there to the studio.
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