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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Slow Cooker Chicken or Turkey Thighs

« on: March 22, 2017, 2000 UTC »

I'm going to have to give this a whirl.  Life is busy and anything involving a crock pot is welcome around here...keep 'em coming!

P.S. My Grandma had the foresight to make a cookbook for all the kids with her recipes.  I still cook many of them, healthy or not   My mom recently found a crock pot lasagna recipe that was pretty good,
maybe I'll put it up here sometime.

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Huh? / Re: 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love.......cancelled?

« on: March 14, 2017, 2007 UTC »

Love doesn't need no freakkin' permit....

We shall love on the beaches, we shall love on the landing grounds, we shall love in the fields and in the streets, we shall love in the hills; we shall love all damn summer long.

...And then they will take you to jail

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General Radio Discussion / Re: New boards on the HFU

« on: March 12, 2017, 2152 UTC »

+1

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General Radio Discussion / Re: iHeartMedia CEO Efforts May Not Be Enough to Avoid Looming Bankruptcy

« on: March 08, 2017, 0009 UTC »

Keep in mind too that NPR, like most politicians for that matter, chases doners and their money, so whatever view the money has is what you get.

...Follow the money... And listen to it talk

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General Radio Discussion / Re: iHeartMedia CEO Efforts May Not Be Enough to Avoid Looming Bankruptcy

« on: March 03, 2017, 2353 UTC »

This is what happens when corporations run things on the premonition of all flash and no substance.  You can't be number one by regurgitating the same one size fits all crap that everyone else is.  To put it another way, your not going to win over your market and its listeners by running the same format lab trash that 3 other stations are playing.  The content is what people want, and good content will win over your audience.

That's the cool thing about pirate radio, everyone does their own thing.  You may not like what your hearing, but in most cases you would be hard pressed to say you've heard that somewhere else.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Voice Of The Angry Pigmeat 6925 USB 2251 UTC 1 Mar 2017

« on: March 02, 2017, 2135 UTC »

https://youtu.be/gwHYenKngQs

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC

« on: February 22, 2017, 0531 UTC »

Anyone have recordings?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC

« on: February 19, 2017, 0539 UTC »

Thanks all for the reports.  This was only 25W carrier and frankly I'm pretty impressed with how well it got out.  The only calamity of the night occurred when the antenna blew over and broke three of the 8 radial wire clips and bent the hell out of the vertical.  We were back on in under 5 minutes.

Thanks again,

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North American Shortwave Pirate / X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC

« on: February 19, 2017, 0302 UTC »

Reports welcome


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Equipment / Re: WRKL Antenna Tower Collapsed Today 2/13/17

« on: February 14, 2017, 1321 UTC »

It looks as if they've let the maintenance go for a long time.  There is a second tower that doesn't look long for this world either.

The station has run ethnic/polish format (I'll spare you the jokes) and in my experience, the ethnic guys usually don't maintain stuff very well.

Sad.

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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Watergate Salad

« on: February 02, 2017, 1604 UTC »

I still make this when I have friends over for dinner.  Very midwest, we used to call this green fluff, or green stuff.

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Equipment / Re: Question regarding my first loop antenna

« on: January 26, 2017, 0127 UTC »

I see the same thing on ebay.  It might be the antique electronic supply guys, as they used to sell a cap that looked just like that.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: A little detail about RelayStation

« on: January 25, 2017, 1953 UTC »

"a second advantage to low level modulation is the ability to operate at milliwatts of power with no change in modulation."

Commercial transmitters do this with high level PWM modulation by summing the program audio with a DC bias, representing carrier level, then feeding this signal through a VCA thus changing the level of carrier and modulation together so the ratio is maintained over the entire power control range.  The control voltage to the VCA is relative to the desired power level, usually controlled by a micro controller.  The downstream PWM comparator converts this signal and a precision triangle wave to a string of pulses used to feed the modulation switch.

For simplicity and frequency agility, low level modulation is definitely the way to go.  If you have a limited power budget, such as when working with battery power, every watt counts

Thank You for the virtual tour of your station.  It sounds like a lot of thought and research went into it.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Forum Notifications on Phone

« on: January 21, 2017, 1921 UTC »

There is a Twitter feed you can follow and that should get you most of the new posts.

Use the hashtag #shortwavepirate

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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Baked Spam Pineapple

« on: January 21, 2017, 1102 UTC »

TREET is probably best described as SPAMs financially challenged cousin and is made from chicken and pork(Think of those little vienna sausages in a can). Spam is made from Pork shoulder and ham. Here's a little article that will put to rest any misconceptions one might have regarding SPAM.... http://southernmnscene.com/content/brief-history-spam

Southern Minnesota has a scene?  ...chuckle...

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