There are two elements of radio in my life. Well, three or 10, but more on that later: I'm stalling for time right now.

I grew up listening to radio, a tradition I follow to this day. Information radio (I'll even listen to newsradio 78 WCBS, for example), though I far prefer CBC - or what CBC used to be, to some degree. Overnight news is another fave, for information content. I also like drama or comedy broadcast, like Sunday Showcase, or Prairie Home Companion, or Whaddya Know, for example. I've visited a variety of CBC stations (Cabbagetown, & the new Toronto studio). Just something about the ether, as Alan McFee used to say. Gary Dunford's Parka Patrol was hoopy, as were shows like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, the Great Eastern, and so on.

I also used to work in radio, for about three years. It was mainly at 820 CHAM, a country station where I was an engineering techie, mainly keeping the station going at the studio and transmitter, as well as remotes, recordings, doing live concert tech work, and so on. That was fun. In the last year of radio work I also did some maintenance work for Dance 108, formerly Energy 108, Canada's first dance music station. It's been bought out by Shaw recently, & gone country, but it was pretty funky to be there at a fun time in the industry. Prior to that, and even concurrently, I did volunteer work at campus radio stations in Toronto and Hamilton, which was likewise fun. .

Finally, I am a licensed HAM radio operator, though only at 6m and less, alas. VE3 SZZ. I'm working on getting my packet radio up and running, but with everything else going down, it's a bit hard to maintain the momentum. I recently got my marine operator's certificate, as well.

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