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- CC1s121LrBGT said I have an old friend from college that lives a few hundred miles from me. Last time I visited him, he had to park in his driveway because his garage was filled with old analog oscilloscopes that were...
- Parrott said AAArgh , I still have the B & K tube tester, its the size of a large brief case . I have the Tube substitution handbook here somewhere. I would have to look it up but I can test it Fred. If yo...
- Fred Stiening said Amtrak just spent a ton of money rehabbing tracks between Springfield and New Haven. I think this may be on another competing rail line on the opposite side of the river. I didn’t drive much in...
- Fred Stiening said So you know the tube tester settings for a 6SJ7?
- TheChairman said Good time, bad times… we all have some stories. Seems like a lot of repair shops were put out of business by transistors and solid state electronics in the mid 70’s thru mid 80’s. A...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Attention train buffs: extremely high tax state Connecticut, while bleeding jobs and business such as GE which recently moved its HQ to Massachusetts, has bet the taxpayer’s farm on the rail. A...
- Parrott said Happy Fathers day everyone. Tom Greshem is having people calling in, telling good time stories. Mine would be short. I remember my old man showing me how to test vacuum tubes in the TV & Radio r...
- CC1s121LrBGT said I can half understand hearing their weather forecast for the weekend on Sunday night when it just hours from being over, and their calendar of events for events that happened days ago, but I still hav...
- Fred Stiening said After dumping around a $billion in debt and all the old stockholders, the “new” Cumulus resumed trading with an implied market value of around $160 million. Fresh out of bankruptcy, Cumulus is hit wit...
- Fred Stiening said In between debating outlawing dolls of children used for sex, Congress is also voting to impose $2 million fines for illegal operation of a radio station.
- CC1s121LrBGT said Just what we need to grow government. Has anyone else thought that the problem in Washington was that we need 4 new Senators to water down the votes of existing states? The irony is that proponents of...
- briand75 said I know it’s simplistic and – yes – impossible, but can’t we just saw along the border and push CA into the Pacific? I think it would make a fine island nation 🙂
- briand75 said Ah yes! Amiga computers. The first (that I remember) computer with flat memory addressing. Such an improvement over the PC (Piece of c___) running DOS (Don’t Own this System). Fond memories and,...
- CC1s121LrBGT said How about an apology to the donors and voters he swindled in return for his vote to repeal Obamacare?
- Fred Stiening said Has McCain apologized yet to Sarah Palin?
- Fred Stiening said If anyone happens to be near Traverse City, Michigan – see if WLDR-FM (101.9) and/or WARD-AM (750) are still broadcasting…
- CC1s121LrBGT said https://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrk.no%2Fnorge%2Ffrp-ere-nominerer-donald-trump-til-nobels-fredspris-1.14082439 “The progress party-ERS nomi...
- TheChairman said Before we left Arizona last week, a Tucson radio station announced the results of a recent statewide poll (ignored by most media outlets). The question was: “Should the Trump Administration apol...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Big court decision today on whether ATT can buy CNN and the rest of Time Warner. Of course Comcast already owns MSNBC and other channels. …and Verizon owns Huffington Post and Yahoo News. glad...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Trump has to earn it like Obama did…. maybe he should channel Al Jolson and perform the press conferences in blackface.
- Fred Stiening said The media silence over President Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize is deafening.
- Fred Stiening said Progressive Talk radio in Asheville NC is moving to an HD sub channel. This might be a sign of things to come as iHeart’s creditors are more directly involved in management decisions. Out in Sa...
- Parrott said Why don’t McCain just go away? he has no dignity He still has to keep showing his ass. I stand with President Trump. mcclown can stand with his Isis boys and globalist parrott
- TheChairman said Yes, we crossed their tracks last week upon our return. Apparently, they have been awarded ‘short line’ railway of the year for 2018. https://www.lsrc.com/news/ There’s an interesti...
- Fred Stiening said Sarnoff was the 600 pound gorilla. He essentially wrote the industry rulebook for Radio defining acceptable ethics. Keeping your membership at the NAB meant not crossing swords with Sarnoff. NBC/RCA...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Just saying that most wireless companies have “data only” plans so you can connect your home computers. May be faster and cheaper than your 1.5 Mbps. They have a wireless router that creat...
- Parrott said That’s true Fred, I had friends that would only sign a lease with certain apartments complexes in Blacksburg Virginia, because they would offer free T1 service. this was back around 96 -98 . Ve...
- Parrott said Hi CC, yeah I have 4G here. Verizon’s tower is about half mile away by way the crow flys. Its a great signal and works well on the companies Apple phone I use for work. I have it always set f...
- CC1s121LrBGT said What was behind the greatest generation owners not liking Sarnoff and his RCA/NBC? I would have expected the opposite as RCA had long been a defense contractor. Ts and Cs that were tough against the...
- Fred Stiening said Amiga computers were good for those cable TV channels. They could produce inexpensive video and show graphics.
- Fred Stiening said Many of them probably carry the CBS top of the hour news and features. There was strong hatred of Sarnoff and NBC in the Midwest, although it is fading as the Greatest Generation owners die off. AB...
- Fred Stiening said That is quite plausible. Verizon is telling you the truth about DSL. The speed limit of the DSL is limited by the length of the copper wire. In the old days, if you had a budget, you could order...
- Parrott said Hey Chairman: Is the shortline Lake States railway still serving the quarries and cement plant there in Alpena ? I saw some 2015 footage on youtube . Parrott
- CC1s121LrBGT said How is your home with regard to phone connectivity? 4G LTE speeds are around 5 and 12 Mbps and 5G is probably months away. The new gear that T-Mobile is installing at the towers for their new 600 and...
- Parrott said I guess thats why Pidgin quit supporting that Yahoo messenger, me and a couple people at work used Pidgin as the messenger interface, before Verizon took over. Back then Yahoo was messing with their...
- CC1s121LrBGT said I agree with your assessment that internet access is basically a public utility. I have possible access via fewer providers than I have as possible suppliers for my home’s electricity. Seems...
- Fred Stiening said 0.19 blood alcohol in the system of the woman who fell out of the bus. https://www.wcnc.com/mobile/article/news/crime/uncc-student-killed-in-party-bus-crash-was-drinking-toxicology-report-says/275-559...
- Fred Stiening said In the Yahoo vision of the Internet, Yahoo was an alternative to AOL. Their ecosystem had a portal for news and entertainment, a search engine, dialup internet access (via partnerships with the Bell...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Thanks for that alert. I logged into my yahoo mail and still no notification from Verizon that they were shutting it down. Logged into the crippled messenger (about a year ago, yahoo forced all users...
- Fred Stiening said Yahoo Messenger will be shutting down in a month. I wonder if GDPR compliance was an issue. Does the “right to be forgotten” extend to 20 year old chat logs?
- TheChairman said During our travels we noticed a fair number of AM stations across the heartland states… most often with weather/crop and futures market reports during breaks with local or national talk shows.
- CC1s121LrBGT said The Democrats colluded and interfered with the election by pressuring some non-incumbent candidates to drop out. That had a close call and through the collusion prevented a situation where they would...
- Fred Stiening said The Democratic Party plan to suppress Republican votes in the general election may have backfired. The Top 2 “jungle” primary caused an expensive primary for Governor and did not block Re...
- CC1s121LrBGT said It used to be (circa the 1970s) that cable TV systems had their own local channels that showed cars for sale ads with still images, and community events on another channel. Both channels looked like a...
- Fred Stiening said Not having done any research on this, what I suspect is that AM stations are acquiring FM translators, after a couple weeks of encouraging their core listeners (P1s) to switch to the FM station, they...
- TheChairman said Upon returning to northern Michigan this week, we noticed something had changed during the winter. While doing errands in Alpena, we attempted to find an AM station, but the ‘seek’ functio...
- Fred Stiening said When we went to Lexington NC to get BBQ, I realized the restaurant had K-Love playing on the radio. BMI and ASCAP love to search for restaurants playing music, as the law and a long history of legal...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Really no reason to listen to anything you don’t like nowadays. Many key talkers have 24/7 streams but many also have free podcasts… and the podcasts will stream from your browser if you d...
- briand75 said From my experience – just the work keeping their websites up to date is somewhat daunting. I became somewhat of a fan listening to a large number of their stations and hope that they continue to...
- briand75 said Goodbye Filet 🙂
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Category Archives: War in Europe
Who has nuclear weapons and how many?
Russia is conducting a drill having 40 million people going to shelters built to survive a nuclear exchange with the United States. If one was expecting an actual nuclear exchange, that is exactly what you would do – except tell … Continue reading
War Games
Vladimir Putin has cleared his schedule without an obvious reason. Stephen Cohen has made it increasingly clear that Putin feels he has little option but to directly engage the United States in directly military confrontation, because of both Syria and … Continue reading
NATO chief – Russia is behind the anti-fracking movement
[Written June 29, 2014] This is one of the longest standing beliefs of Rush Limbaugh – that Greenpeace and other environmental groups are motivated by forces wanting to destroy the US economic influence, not really protect the environment http://fortune.com/2014/06/27/russias-secret-energy-war/?xid=tab_top30
Changes at the BBC World Service
The BBC World Service (heard on many public radio stations) is a British government propaganda operation. Until 2010, it was funded directly by the Foreign Office, the equivalent of the US State department. The World Service is different than the … Continue reading
Posted in Collapse of the EU, Global Instability, Radio Biz, War in Europe
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Truly bizarre music
The time was 1941 – the United States was staying out of the war in Europe. At home, the NAB was waging war on ASCAP, creating BMI to wrestle away control of musicians so radio controlled what they were paid. … Continue reading
Posted in Collapse of the EU, Global Instability, Radio Biz, War in Europe
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Are you Charlie? Really?
Other than the Freedom of Speech that you learned about, what do you know about Charlie Hebdo? Alex Jones is promoting anothe of his crazy theories that the attack on Charlie Hebdo was actually an Israeli operation carried out by … Continue reading
George Soros on Ukraine (March 2014)
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/soros-says-ukraine-crisis-wake-up-call-for-europe-vR3mFOjYS3m3pQpCHjy7kA.html In about the last 10 seconds, he slips in the phrase “Open Society”, which should make you tingle if you listen to Glenn Beck http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/
Posted in Global Instability, War in Europe
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What if there was a US / Russia war and Russia refused to play
I like to think out-of-the-box. What if Vladimir Putin got on television today and said – “Russia surrenders”? “I’ve ordered the Russian military to destroy all of our tanks, airplanes, ships, and submarines in place, and turn over launch authority … Continue reading
Posted in Global Instability, War and not War, War in Europe
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