Andy Finney

Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 12:07 UTC

NEW BLOG POST! In which I dig into all the weird and wonderful programming quirks of our quasi-national commercial radio networks, many of which only exist for licensing reasons, before many of them are abruptly culled FOR EVER.
blog.andrewbowden.me.uk/2024/06/24/a...

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 18:26 UTC

That looks like one. The version we used had an integrated mic/speaker and was modified to use an external broadcast mic. I think the range was about half a mile … up the hill to where the car gave a signal back to the studio. (Long time ago: memories may be incomplete 😊)

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 12:30 UTC

Back in the early local radio days we had a tiny UHF transceiver made by Pye called a Pocketphone. It could be used as a short-range adjunct to the radio car.

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 12:32 UTC

Nice to see the American sleeve design here.

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] May 03, 2024 at 13:06 UTC

Sorry to miss you in Salisbury … crossed wires I think.

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 09:06 UTC

The Ferryman down at the Dublin Quay is a great pub. We got locked in at closing followed by strong tea on a tall ship moored outside. Matt Molloy was in the bar but he was one Chieftain I didn’t know. Happy days. (You keeping well?)

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 14:47 UTC

How very nice!

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 08, 2024 at 10:06 UTC

Mangled link alert! Sorry.

Try infrared100.org

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 07, 2024 at 17:23 UTC

Infrared 100 find Infrared imaging in the new Dune movie, and explores a century of IR in the movies:
infrared100.org/2024/04/dune-m…

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 06, 2024 at 09:07 UTC

Did he play alongside Thumbs Carllile?

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 31, 2024 at 10:14 UTC

I was briefly acquainted with Yes’s engineer, Eddie Offord, and popped into Advidion while they were adding the vocals to this. I had never seen cut-edited 2-inch multitrack tapes before (or since) and found it quite amazing.

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 27, 2024 at 09:39 UTC

Wasn’t there a bit of Beatles singing ‘Rock and Roll Music’ in that scene as well? Brilliant stuff.

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 27, 2024 at 09:38 UTC

Shame! You can sometimes clear things if you can ask the right person. I cleared the HHGTG theme for video simply because I knew someone at the record company.

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 27, 2024 at 09:10 UTC

I came across this decade-old piece about replacing things in films/tv because of rights issues … and why, as a result, people prefer discs. Reminds me of one of my odder tasks in my BBC Enterprises days.

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 23, 2024 at 14:40 UTC

A somewhat worn, but still intact, survivor from the start of the revolution.

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 23, 2024 at 10:20 UTC

I keep the luminiferous aether in the back of my mind for emergencies.

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