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by Ed Joseph
Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:34 pm
Forum: Let's Break for Commercials
Topic: death to 'doorbusters'
Replies: 2
Views: 2277

Re: death to 'doorbusters'

Another I wouldn't care if I never heard again is "____palooza".
by Ed Joseph
Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:28 pm
Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
Topic: HD Radio Sync
Replies: 2
Views: 992

Re: HD Radio Sync

If they do have an engineer, he probably doesn't care...
by Ed Joseph
Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:24 pm
Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
Topic: Realistic DX 160
Replies: 8
Views: 2854

Re: Realistic DX 160

The radio we all lusted over like a hot 21 year old, and never had enough money to afford either. I have a speaker for one, incase I ever find one for sale at a hamfest below the original retail price. I see these on Ebay quite often. Nearly all of them will need new capacitors if they haven't been...
by Ed Joseph
Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:23 pm
Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
Topic: Realistic DX 160
Replies: 8
Views: 2854

Re: Realistic DX 160

SolarMax wrote:
Tue Nov 26, 2019 7:57 pm
The DX-160 must have improved on the 150 enough to get the model number bump.
The DX 160 added LW and BC bands, plus had some tweaks to improve things. For it's price range was a very nice communications receiver.
by Ed Joseph
Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:16 pm
Forum: Northern Lower Michigan/Eastern U.P.
Topic: 101.9 wldr
Replies: 165
Views: 34595

Re: 101.9 wldr

I truly miss live, local radio directed at their City of License, instead of this "Where ever you go, we're there, sucking as usual" garbage.
by Ed Joseph
Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:14 pm
Forum: Northern Lower Michigan/Eastern U.P.
Topic: 101.9 wldr
Replies: 165
Views: 34595

Re: 101.9 wldr

thats two, Nelson. Anything and I mean anything thats not premium choice/cumulus/iheart is just fine by me. I like being surprised by what is next, and frankly, i KNOW most of the tunes on WQON. Maybe i need meds, but thats my problem. I have to agree. I just listened to an hour long shortwave pira...
by Ed Joseph
Sun Dec 08, 2019 6:06 pm
Forum: Northern Lower Michigan/Eastern U.P.
Topic: WKLT-fm, Kalkaska and WKLZ-fm, Petoskey
Replies: 103
Views: 23496

Re: WKLT-fm, Kalkaska and WKLZ-fm, Petoskey

I have always viewed the market environment up north to be just plain nuts. But this is how corporate anything works, by gobbling up all the locals to make one giant, tasteless pancake. Sad to see all of these formerly decent stations tossed around again. It never seems to stop up there. The whole "...
by Ed Joseph
Wed Dec 04, 2019 3:32 pm
Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
Topic: Trials of restoring Heathkit DX-35
Replies: 27
Views: 6114

Re: Trials of restoring Heathkit DX-35

I remember actually seeing that RCA at WKNX working back in the Day. It was trashed to make room for the MW10 in around 1979-80.

Edit: Honestly, I thought the RCA sounded better than the Harris.
by Ed Joseph
Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:27 pm
Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
Topic: Anybody Have Any Experience With Fixing d'Arsonval Signal/Battery Strength Meters/Circuits?
Replies: 4
Views: 1107

Re: Anybody Have Any Experience With Fixing d'Arsonval Signal/Battery Strength Meters/Circuits?

Indeed, what SolarMax said. Plastic meter faces are notorious for that. I have a Simpson 260 with the plastic lense bezel which says right in it do not wipe this lense... I always took a small chunk of foil and grounded it with a test jumper and them lightly pressed it flat to the lense. Most of the...
by Ed Joseph
Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:20 pm
Forum: Buzzboard Marketplace
Topic: Flying Beers Hamfest on September 22nd
Replies: 1
Views: 2428

Re: Flying Beers Hamfest on September 22nd

If you hear of any other ham swaps, please post them in the marketplace.
by Ed Joseph
Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:53 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Need headphone advicex
Replies: 26
Views: 6151

Re: Need headphone advicex

Between radio and working at the Jeep plant for ten years, the ringing is pretty extreme at times. Left ear is really bad, and follows my heartbeat like a heart monitor.
by Ed Joseph
Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:16 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Need headphone advicex
Replies: 26
Views: 6151

Re: Need headphone advicex

LOL... I can still hear 10k, but the tininitus is a real bitch. I just proofed out an Optimod 8000 I had sleeping on the shelf here and I could hear to around 11.5k or so when sweeping tones thru it. Granted, the "test" jacks are *after* the preemphasis, so...
by Ed Joseph
Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:09 pm
Forum: Music Musings
Topic: The "other" Crowbar
Replies: 6
Views: 1678

Re: The "other" Crowbar

Y M Ionhere wrote:
Fri Nov 29, 2019 6:16 pm
I was a fan of that band as a high school geek in the mid-90s. At that time, i was searching for the absolute heaviest music i could find.
One of the guitarists either used bass strings or all high E strings to get that really heavy, deep sound.
That's one way to induce migraines!
by Ed Joseph
Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:02 pm
Forum: Network & Syndicated Radio and TV
Topic: Brother Stair still on the radio
Replies: 12
Views: 4918

Re: Brother Stair still on the radio

One thing I don't understand is why "ministries" continue to broadcast years after the guy croaks. Gene Scott, for one. Or years after these ministers failed outright, Harold Camping. I know Camping is pretty much gone from the airwaves since the dissolution of Family Radio, but I heard a Gene Scott...
by Ed Joseph
Tue Dec 03, 2019 4:50 pm
Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
Topic: Trials of restoring Heathkit DX-35
Replies: 27
Views: 6114

Re: Trials of restoring Heathkit DX-35

At some point, this Orban was evidently moved to the AM... as I think back, the phase was probably reversed to the TX. Honestly, I think I'd rather have analog STL over digital. That's just me. I do not trust digital, or especially the internet infrastructure, to be hardened enough if the Sun decide...