REC History - 2006

2006 was a substantial year of change at REC, both personally and professionally. REC adds Canada to it's broadcast tools through periodic updates using extracted data from Industry Canada. FMFIND.info was created to provide a consumer friendly tool to search for FM frequencies that can be used by consumer electronic devices like satellite radio receivers. REC made various enhancements to its broadcast tool suite including how maps are displayed, DTV channel elections as well as new enhancements to tools relating to the Great Translator Invasion on 2003. REC created waves in the Amateur Radio community by filing a brief with the FCC questioning a certain aspect of the FCC's enforcement action against Glenn Baxter, K1MAN regarding hams giving out website URLs over the air. REC Networks is added to Wikipedia. A major storm comes through Tempe causing minor damage at the Tempe Radio Ranch. REC comments partially in support of AM broadcast stations being able to use FM translators, but not at the expense of LPFM availability. Near the end of the year, we saw REC's Michelle finally get her legal name change to make the name Michelle Eyre fully official and after 20 years, Michelle leaves the telecommunications industry as her "real job" and gets an entry level job with a major airline. For W0KIE, REC produced many "motivations" this year including songs like "I Wanna' Be Blair Alper" and "JAWS Talking" as well as poking fun at Motel 6 and bedtime stories read by "Lady Alper". REC did a couple of parody versions of Japanese pop songs from the band AAA (Attack All Around) under the name "Srap All Around" including "Lady Srapping" and "On The Air at WTND". The latter was sung both in English and Japanese and was the first full-length Japanese parody song we have done. We joined with our friends at W0KIE to mourn the loss of Dishnut Gerry and our friends at Dementia Radio to mourn the loss of DJ Blindwulf. The year ends with the major announcement that REC has reached a technology transfer agreement with SIRIUS Satellite Radio where the rights to do Part 15 FM broadcast searches was sold to SIRIUS. REC stays on board to maintain the data. On New Years Eve, Anime Hardcore Radio quietly signs off to be replaced later in January by a new format. "Junrenka" by Shounan Nokaze was the number one song for the year on Hardcore J and was the first song to rank in the number one slot for the year that did not rank number one for a weekly chart.