“ Jeremy Lansman coming to help engineer your new radio station is like Jimi Hendrix coming to sit in and play guitar with your new garage band!!!” ~Bennet Kobb
The broadcasting world recently lost one of its most prolific and brilliant engineering minds, Jeremy Lansman, after a long fight with a rare blood cancer. Progenitor of dozens of non-commercial radio and TV stations (in the US and around the world) and mentor to many, including me, Jeremy was a high-functioning genius, borderline social outcast and outlaw, and a perpetual do-gooder.
“In 2007, when it came time to file for my first NCE-FM (KDUP), it was Jeremy that gave me the confidence to go for it. Since then, our perpetually penniless company (Open Sky Radio Corp. dba: Jiveradio.org) has built & licensed 13 NCE-FM’s and two LPTV stations. Out of the 13 FM’s, 9 are still on the air and 4 of those have been turned over to local nonprofits that are currently self-sustaining vibrant hubs of community media. All but one have remained secular. I’m sure Coach Lansman would be proud.” ~ Jeff Cotton, Open Sky Radio Corp.
A Jeremy story from Eric von Schrader in St Louis:
One evening in the early 1970s, he brought a homemade television transmitter to my house. I had portable video equipment and he wanted to see if we could transmit a television signal from one room to another. He set it up, connected it to my video recorder, and pressed play. It worked, but the sound was distorted. He said he needed a variable resistor to control the sound level. We didn’t have one. He went to the kitchen and rummaged around in the refrigerator. He found a stalk of celery, took it upstairs to the transmitter, and hooked it up to the audio circuit. He pinned a wire to one end of the stalk and pinned another at the other end of the stalk. Using the water in the celery as the resistor, he could adjust the sound level by moving one pin closer or farther from the other. And it worked perfectly! I felt like I was in the room with Alexander Graham Bell. Jeremy was thinking “outside the box” years before that term was invented.”
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