Best Buy: 2498 different artist's LP's and 5 HD radios.

[Tom Wells]

Many thoughts over the last page or 2.

I should maybe put in a directed electronics, or whatever it's called, HD front end in my car radio for a heater-booster this winter.

The Accurian had a bizarre inverse-bandwidth to signal response. How is the Sony in AM analog with strong signals, wide or narrow?
I call wide 10 khz or more.

I'm back home in Chicago but just spent 2 nights in darkest northern Wisconsin, so I had some quality time in the parking lot
of the hotel with the 1972 Motorola AM/FM in the '65 Dart.

There's quite a mosh of hiss many places on the AM dial. KDKA is truly being creamed.
I tried to listen to WHO but they were half WBuZ.
I tried to listen to WSM, but even 275 miles from AM 670 Chicago, they were trashed.
AM 860 in Toronto is still pretty clean!
The Citadel AM stations have figured out how to be crisp and still have HD decode, but I wonder if they decode as far?
Whe WLS shuts off HD there is no audio balance change, and yet the crispness is acceptable in either mode.
WABC was booming in, and they also had exemplary audio definition.

WOKY 920 MIlwaukee, done gone country, must have an interesting night signal.
On a drive-through on the interstate they were good ( receivable) for about 5 songs.
During the mid-point of that, I was within a mile of the towers, and the iboc sidebands did truly overwash and obliterate
WLS AM 890, otherwise listenable during the whole 275 miles, excepting a few deep cancellation fades at the extreme distance.


I am so happy the Franklin antenna is too complex, current-wise, to be broadbanded effectively for HD.
Maybe the shape throws weird sideband imbalances. Did KDKA have funny lobes (locally) before? I don't know.
Or whatever the malady is, I'm sure it was deemed the best engineering by people who knew analog.
Now they're going to hack this antenna?
George Westinghouse cries out from the beyond to stop the awfulness.

 

[calstymes]

pocket-radio reported:

Given the perception problems with Vista, users are sticking with XP too.

and KB1OKL expanded:

Windows is now experimenting with Windows 7 dumping the Vista name.

I hear that Windows Mojave is the ticket now! Lots of "normal" users like you and me have appeared on TV and said that they were very impressed with Windows Mojave.

Oh wait! Windows Mojave IS Windows Vista??

Holy crapola, Batman! Does M$ ever have an image problem! It's kinda like the iBiquity image.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Oh wait! Windows Mojave IS Windows Vista??

Mojave is one of the places where they send old airplanes to die...
to be cut up, melted down or just sit there in the desert air.

I'm sure they can make some space for Vista.

And for iBunglety: here's a one-way ticket to Mojave for I-CRAP. ;D

 

[radioskeptic]

Way back in Reply #6, Clouseau wrote:

Scott Fybush... Today's Worst Person in the World!

(Cue the Ripped off Huntly-Brinkley theme music)

No, Clouseau, the music for the Worst Persons segment of Countdown with Keith Olbermann is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d Minor, BWV 565. You sahould recognize from Fantasia, if nowhere else.

The theme that opens the show is an adaptation of the beginning of the second movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; the original version was used on the Huntley-Brinkley newscasts.

The other classical piece (and I use the word loosely) Olberman uses every night,, the one that opens the segment on the silly stuff, is the Bahn Frei Polka, by Eduard Strauss, the youngest brother of "Waltz King" Johann Strauss the Younger. If it sounds familiar, that could be because the late Jean Sheppard used it as his theme on WOR back in the 1960's.

 

[KB1OKL]

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[KB1OKL]

Way back in Reply #6, Clouseau wrote:

Scott Fybush... Today's Worst Person in the World!

(Cue the Ripped off Huntly-Brinkley theme music)

Clouseau likes to exaggerate just a little bit every once in a while. In fact I bought one of the great tuners that Scott (the worst person in the world) and a few others were touting at the beginning of this thread. i fail to see why they are enamored. I'm getting one HD FM with drop outs and no AM at all. The sound is a little better with better top and bottom and it does sound a little cleaner when locked in with a good signal but.... One station? I guess I'm going to have to put up my 100' roof top specially designed Yagi from cut for FM after all because this just ain't cutting it.
It reminds me of a review of a car HD receiver I once read, it was put into scan mode and it went round and around for 30 minutes, very impressive, ahah! Well that was my experience today, not very impressive to me. I am sure I will be able to get it going by getting an outside antenna something 99.9% of people won't do, but hey I was stupid and curious enough to buy it in the first place and maybe I can get into FM dXing if I do the mod and out in the switch to shut off HD.