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General Radio Discussion / Re: Midwinter DXpedition, New Zealand East Coast, now Sat 1 July
« on: June 23, 2017, 0651 UTC »
Just watch out for the Moas, though. I've heard they're dangerous.
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The Taiwanese made good stuff, also. My Sangeans made in Taiwan all are still working well. Only one (my DX-398/Sangean 909) had a negative battery terminal go intermittent (from hard use, after about 8-9 years) -- an easy fix.
Otherwise, your point is very well taken. The Japanese made excellent radios and aside from ham rigs, I don't think any DX radios are made in Japan anymore, aside from the Sony EX5MK2 AM-FM radio (a MWDXer with synch). And maybe some other model I don't know of...
The Chinese make simpler radios OK (the Sangean PR-series seem to hold up well), but the more complex you want from the radio, at a low price, you get varying quality apparently. My Grundig G2 is still working OK (it gets weekly or 2x a week use), but I"ve read so many complaints about dud Tecsuns/Kaitos/Degens that I think it's a matter of the company telling the factory to churn 'em out as inexpensively as practical....
As far as the OP is concerned, if I were in your shoes I would see if it could be returned/replaced... or just live with the glitch. As long as it receives well. Every radio seems to have some idiosyncrasy that one has to live with... it's just too bad in your case it's a defective form of idiosyncrasy. :-)
You have never struck me as someone who would be insensitive like that. Like MDK2 I figured you hadn't heard the news yet.
No offense taken here, and I'm a Soundgarden fan.
Chris Cornell, RIP....
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Equipment / Re: Low Band Antennae
« on: June 17, 2017, 0647 UTC »
FWIW, my 11 m quad antenna, which I mentioned, was a single quad loop. No second element. Fairly easy to build. It was on a wooden cross frame I nailed together, and I could turn it and aim the lobes NS or EW. But it had pretty good reception in most directions.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Midwinter DXpedition, New Zealand East Coast, Saturday 24 June
« on: June 17, 2017, 0644 UTC »
Which east coast of NZ? North Island or South Island? Just curious.
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Equipment / Re: Low Band Antennae
« on: June 14, 2017, 0505 UTC »
A long time ago (before the antenna blew down) I had an 11 meter quad loop that worked real well on VHF low band. I heard guys talking in Louisanan, Cajun like accents talking about oil rigs, and other interesting transmissions between 30-33 MHz or so. And I'm in the PNW.
That, of course, was in 1990 or so and the sunspots were up.
That, of course, was in 1990 or so and the sunspots were up.
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Huh? / Re: The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ at 50
« on: June 13, 2017, 0208 UTC »
I loved Psychotic Reaction, it was a real nice take on the Yardbirds' "I'm A Man".
Sgt. Pepper's was sort of like Stairway To Heaven, a very good piece of artistry that got played to death and was imitated so many times that the caricature has overshadowed the true genius exhibited in the original record. When you hear so many imitations of something that has been played to death on the radio, the original sort of loses its luster.
Sgt. Pepper's was sort of like Stairway To Heaven, a very good piece of artistry that got played to death and was imitated so many times that the caricature has overshadowed the true genius exhibited in the original record. When you hear so many imitations of something that has been played to death on the radio, the original sort of loses its luster.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: eLORAN in the U.S. is alive?
« on: June 13, 2017, 0156 UTC »
On which frequencies will these LORAN stations be transmitting? Will there be anything that would be audible on an SSB radio?
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Equipment / Re: RETRO RECEIVER REVIEW #10 - The DRAKE SPR-4
« on: June 10, 2017, 0023 UTC »
I know a lot of guys back then used those for MW DXing, and SWLing also. Saw enough of them in DXing shack pictures in the mags like PopComm and the like.
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Equipment / Re: Tecsun PL 660 frequency display problems
« on: June 05, 2017, 1227 UTC »
Cannot beat a good receiver made in the UK, Japan or USA, we get what we pay for as far as Chinese junk is concerned.
The Taiwanese made good stuff, also. My Sangeans made in Taiwan all are still working well. Only one (my DX-398/Sangean 909) had a negative battery terminal go intermittent (from hard use, after about 8-9 years) -- an easy fix.
Otherwise, your point is very well taken. The Japanese made excellent radios and aside from ham rigs, I don't think any DX radios are made in Japan anymore, aside from the Sony EX5MK2 AM-FM radio (a MWDXer with synch). And maybe some other model I don't know of...
The Chinese make simpler radios OK (the Sangean PR-series seem to hold up well), but the more complex you want from the radio, at a low price, you get varying quality apparently. My Grundig G2 is still working OK (it gets weekly or 2x a week use), but I"ve read so many complaints about dud Tecsuns/Kaitos/Degens that I think it's a matter of the company telling the factory to churn 'em out as inexpensively as practical....
As far as the OP is concerned, if I were in your shoes I would see if it could be returned/replaced... or just live with the glitch. As long as it receives well. Every radio seems to have some idiosyncrasy that one has to live with... it's just too bad in your case it's a defective form of idiosyncrasy. :-)
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General Radio Discussion / Re: C-QUAM
« on: June 05, 2017, 1219 UTC »
Wow. Too bad it was too little, too late.
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Huh? / Re: Chris Cornell, lead singer of Soundgarden, dies at 52
« on: June 04, 2017, 1705 UTC »
I read an interview with him, can't remember when it was, I think it was around Superunknown or thereabouts, where he said there weren't many times since his youth that he wasn't depressed to a certain degree. If I remember correctly, he said that's where a lot of the music came from, the feeling of it.
RE Day I Tried To Live, I think that was in response to Kurt Cobain's death, or possibly Andrew Wood's addiction / death. I think during the same interview, Cornell alluded to something of that nature...
The tone of the music and lyrics of Soundgarden's music always struck me as something other than suicidal in nature, I thought Cornell would live forever.... Just had a fighter quality about his persona, but obviously, there was a lot going on inside him that was hard to figure, and now such songs as Pretty Noose have a different feel to them.
I used to sing that song in karaoke, and do a decent job of it. I don't think I'll be able to sing it for a while, because of the words....
RE: the toxicology. I wonder how much of the barbiturates was due to needing sleep? I.e. a sleep medication, as opposed to misuse? From reading the article, it looks like it may have been a mishap, and the side effects led him to do something maybe he wouldn't otherwise have done. I guess we'll never truly know.
RE Day I Tried To Live, I think that was in response to Kurt Cobain's death, or possibly Andrew Wood's addiction / death. I think during the same interview, Cornell alluded to something of that nature...
The tone of the music and lyrics of Soundgarden's music always struck me as something other than suicidal in nature, I thought Cornell would live forever.... Just had a fighter quality about his persona, but obviously, there was a lot going on inside him that was hard to figure, and now such songs as Pretty Noose have a different feel to them.
I used to sing that song in karaoke, and do a decent job of it. I don't think I'll be able to sing it for a while, because of the words....
RE: the toxicology. I wonder how much of the barbiturates was due to needing sleep? I.e. a sleep medication, as opposed to misuse? From reading the article, it looks like it may have been a mishap, and the side effects led him to do something maybe he wouldn't otherwise have done. I guess we'll never truly know.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Radio Australia for sale
« on: May 27, 2017, 0531 UTC »
The comments below the article are enlightening. A guy there keeps telling naysayers that the new technologies to replace R Australia's service to the outback are cheap, readily available, and the best way to go.
Right on. Just wire the entire area N and W of Dubbo with cell service or WiFi. Can't see how that wouldn't cost much. I'm sure the facilities would be cheap, and then the electric power to cover the entire area? Even cheaper.
My guess is their current governments are just going to let them stay in the informational dark.
Right on. Just wire the entire area N and W of Dubbo with cell service or WiFi. Can't see how that wouldn't cost much. I'm sure the facilities would be cheap, and then the electric power to cover the entire area? Even cheaper.
My guess is their current governments are just going to let them stay in the informational dark.
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Huh? / Re: Chris Cornell, lead singer of Soundgarden, dies at 52
« on: May 26, 2017, 0436 UTC »
True enough, the Rocket was THE local music paper. The Stranger attempts to fill the void, but fail. Their most recent issue has three photos of Cornell, and 1.5 articles. So much for any tribute to the legacy.
I was never part of the scene, but was always around it somehow. The music was everywhere, especially downtown, even in the strip clubs.
I was at KCMU (the alternative college station at the UW) when all those bands had their first demos and singles played locally. Never saw a show, though. :-( Living in the suburbs, I never really was into seeing shows much.
I saw New American Shame play several times, though. They were a punkish version of AC/DC-style rockers that toured with The Cult, and they played numerous shows in the area -- Bumbershoot, Planet Hot Rod, Sit N Spin, the Crocodile. It was the closest I got to really feeling the scene as it played out later in the 1990's. I saw Truly play -- Hiro Yamamoto's band with Robert Roth. And a couple other local original bands from the latter part of the decade, at the Croc or the Off Ramp -- bands like the Shinola and Redneck Girlfriend that didn't make it big but their music was still pretty good.
By the time you got here, Seattle was still Seattle but things were already changing. The city just kept getting bigger and bigger. If you returned now, you would barely recognise anything, especially in Belltown where the grunge scene seemed to be centered when it was big. Belltown is all high-rises. Downtown reeks of big money now. Not that it's necessarily bad, but the character has changed.
Shit, everything's changed since the 90's. Never thought I'd miss that decade.
I was never part of the scene, but was always around it somehow. The music was everywhere, especially downtown, even in the strip clubs.
I was at KCMU (the alternative college station at the UW) when all those bands had their first demos and singles played locally. Never saw a show, though. :-( Living in the suburbs, I never really was into seeing shows much.
I saw New American Shame play several times, though. They were a punkish version of AC/DC-style rockers that toured with The Cult, and they played numerous shows in the area -- Bumbershoot, Planet Hot Rod, Sit N Spin, the Crocodile. It was the closest I got to really feeling the scene as it played out later in the 1990's. I saw Truly play -- Hiro Yamamoto's band with Robert Roth. And a couple other local original bands from the latter part of the decade, at the Croc or the Off Ramp -- bands like the Shinola and Redneck Girlfriend that didn't make it big but their music was still pretty good.
By the time you got here, Seattle was still Seattle but things were already changing. The city just kept getting bigger and bigger. If you returned now, you would barely recognise anything, especially in Belltown where the grunge scene seemed to be centered when it was big. Belltown is all high-rises. Downtown reeks of big money now. Not that it's necessarily bad, but the character has changed.
Shit, everything's changed since the 90's. Never thought I'd miss that decade.
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Huh? / Re: A real "Inconvenient Truth"
« on: May 25, 2017, 1453 UTC »
As an independent I didn't particularly care for either major Presidential candidate but we got the one we got and hopefully, in some way, the country comes out better for it, even if it's despite him being in office -- for whatever that's worth.
As for what you can believe, really, it's up to an individual to mistrust any news source and just do research if you want to know the truth, or something close to it... they're all in it to make money, and stories sell when they're exciting and pointed...
They don't print news or broadcast news for the good of the people. It's to make a living, and try to survive in an internet news environment, where the New York Times is competing with Joe Blow's Biased News Blog; it's an environment where any mannequin can put up a web site and claim to be a journalist.
Sorry for my cynicism, just overloaded from all the political blather on my FB lately. Peace.
As for what you can believe, really, it's up to an individual to mistrust any news source and just do research if you want to know the truth, or something close to it... they're all in it to make money, and stories sell when they're exciting and pointed...
They don't print news or broadcast news for the good of the people. It's to make a living, and try to survive in an internet news environment, where the New York Times is competing with Joe Blow's Biased News Blog; it's an environment where any mannequin can put up a web site and claim to be a journalist.
Sorry for my cynicism, just overloaded from all the political blather on my FB lately. Peace.
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Huh? / Re: Chris Cornell, lead singer of Soundgarden, dies at 52
« on: May 25, 2017, 1443 UTC »
What little I've heard Cornell was dealing with depression and may have been on an antidepressant that perhaps backfired.
People in the Seattle area are fairly crushed.... At least those of us that were around when Soundgarden and the other bands were taking off in the late 80's/early 90's.
Andrew Wood, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley... Now Mr. Cornell.
RIP Mr. Cornell, and thanks for politely signing my Superunknown CD out in front of the Sit And Spin that one overcast afternoon. You were one of a kind.
People in the Seattle area are fairly crushed.... At least those of us that were around when Soundgarden and the other bands were taking off in the late 80's/early 90's.
Andrew Wood, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley... Now Mr. Cornell.
RIP Mr. Cornell, and thanks for politely signing my Superunknown CD out in front of the Sit And Spin that one overcast afternoon. You were one of a kind.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Solar Minimum
« on: May 20, 2017, 1522 UTC »*eyes the news* Re: that revolting Sound Garden song... I should not have said a word, should I? Didn't know anything had happened to the lead singer at the time I posted, but I still feel like something of a heel now.
You have never struck me as someone who would be insensitive like that. Like MDK2 I figured you hadn't heard the news yet.
No offense taken here, and I'm a Soundgarden fan.
Chris Cornell, RIP....