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Monday, November 28th at 8:00 PM we introduce Hal Miller, editor of Model Retailer Magazine. Hal will provide us with news and information in our monthly segment “The Industry Report.”
During our conversations with Hal this week, we’ll be discussing the Tamiya paint shortage and the reasons for it. The iHobby Expo was recently held in Chicago, he’ll give us an update about it and its move to Cleveland, Ohio in 2012.
These and other topics too! Tune in!
I have mentioned this before, but now I need to mention it again so please bear with me. Yesterday we did a system upgrade to the Squawkbox that facilitates the incorporation of a new shopping function which will soon be unveiled. This will replace the Hawkeye’s Hobbies site and its shopping cart. Hawkeye’s Hobbies.com will still exist, but that URL will be directed to the Products page of this site, Hawkeye’s Squawkbox.
This provides me with a single and more easily manageable site. Which hopefully will allow me more time to devote to my other personal and business obligations. This hopefully includes time in the man cave and my workbench, something I have been really missing.
So don’t be too surprised when you go to Hawkeye’s Hobbies to place an order only to find yourself right here on the Squawkbox. My goal is to have this all completed no later than Thanksgiving so its ready to handle the Black Friday shopping rush. We’ll also be unveiling soon a newly designed Images By Hawkeye website which also will have a shopping feature to purchase selected images.
With winter setting in, the man cave is calling! Besides with my new radio show starting soon, it will serve as both a source of relaxation as well as inspiration.
In a visual world such as that of scale modeling how is radio going to convey the message? Radio has been around long before…I think I can safely say this, all of the modelers alive today. Radio has continued to evolve its technology to continue to reach listeners.
We turn to radio during disasters, in fact we are told to have a portable radio as part of our emergency kits because when natural disasters strike, radio is the most effective means of communications.
Radio has gone evolved from being a raspy crackly signal back when Short Wave (SW) was the only carrier to carry a signal across the airwaves. Other broadcast bands came into being such as AM and FM. Jump ahead a few decades and we have seen the birth of Satellite Radio and that which The Plastic Scale Modeling Hour will air…Internet Radio.
Conventional radio stations are increasing their presence of carrying their programming on the internet as well as their normal over the air transmission. It is the new market to reach listeners worldwide both in their homes but also in their cars and on their smartphones.
That said the concern of whether such a visual media will be conducive with an audio only media shouldn’t be a real concern at all. As long as their has been radio there has been programming to provide verbal guidance to create mental pictures since Guglielmo Marconi discovered the usefulness of radio waves.
There are those who learn best by reading as there are those who learn best by watching. Most of us learned a great deal of what we now know and do by listening to others as they explained it. It works! Technology offers us more than just the means to listen to this new concept of a program.
Through the magic of technology, there will be visuals available for listeners to reference on my website here at Hawkeyes-Squawbox.com just as other radio programs provide for their audiences. When one combines the ability to listen to rebroadcasts and podcasts of the show with these visuals…photographs, illustrations and videos, I believe the concept of having a radio program for our visually intense hobby is something useful as well as entertaining.
So I hope you will join me and my guests as we bring you The Plastic Scale Modeling Hour on Warbird Radio.
