FYI to our listeners – we have our new tower elements tested and they will be in transit soon.  We expect to have them installed ASAP in June so we can test them out.  If all goes well (and I …

   Back in 2021, I shared the story of the Chief Designer of the Soviet Union’s Manned Rocket program, Sergei Korolev, also known as ‘The King’. (FTV:  The King, Part 1 (7-14-21) & Part …

       REO Speedwagon came charging out of Southern Illinois and made a national name for themselves in the 1970s and 1980s.  With the band’s name pretty much retired as of December of 20…

       Okay, if April showers bring May flowers, what do April snow showers bring?  Enough – let spring begin in earnest!!  A quick note of ‘thanks’ to those intrepid photographe…

       Quick, when you think of the Rolling Stones, whose name(s) come to mind?   Mick Jagger and Keith Richard(s), aka Mick and Keef or the Glimmer Twins,  of course.  The second ‘(s)â…

       In the final run up to the first manned Moon landing in 1969, NASA was still working on the final configuration of the Apollo spacecraft.  The orbiting Command Module (CM) was in fin…