Sunday, 7 January 2007

I thought this may be of interest to some people,
Copied from the Chris Cary board,

THE RADIO NOVA NETWORK IN SPAIN ARE LOOKING FOR ENTERTAINING
PRESENTERS WITH REAL TALENT (TIME TEPRETURE AND TITLE MERCHANTS DOINT BOTHER ) THIS COULD BE YOUR FIRST GIG ON YOUR WAY TO SUCCSESS ALL EX DUBLIN JOCKS ARE WORKING IN MAJOR MARKET STATIONS AROUND THE WORLD SEND MP3 DEMO TO CHRIS@:CHRISCARY.COM

Richard

Richard Sharpe wrote:

: (TIME TEPRETURE AND TITLE MERCHANTS DOINT
: BOTHER )

I wonder what this bit means in english?

Steve West <...> said:

: (TIME TEPRETURE AND TITLE MERCHANTS DOINT
: BOTHER )

I wonder what this bit means in english?

Dunno! I was wondering that myself.

Richard

Richard Sharpe wrote:

Christopher England wrote:

: Most radio anoraks, surely, have a history of
: being early adopters, fiddlers, and techie anoraks. A lot of 'em have
: tinkered with CB or Ham radio (Is 2 metres still around? Whatever
: happened to SL?), buying the latest rigs and upgrades and bits and
: bobs.

That's very true, I now have one of these beauties: http://bobscb.com/10Meter/magnum/magnum_s9.htm
It makes the trusty old Cobra 148GTL DX look like pants, and that's summat I _never thought I'd say.

: A lot bought early computers like the BBC Bs and ZX Spectrums.

ZX81 acksherly! Oh the joy of loading from cassette, waiting 5 minutes for it to crash, then adjusting volume, tone and head azimuth and trying again. and again.

: A lot bought the first video recording devices (Who opted for putting
: their dosh into Betamax, eh? Come on admit it. I'll put my hand up.
: D'Oh!).

Betamax was the second best format, after Grundig's V2000 system which was superb!
How the vastly technically inferior JVC VHS system won that race I'll never understand; Mostly down to clever marketing and better availabilty of movie releases methinks.

Christopher England <...> said:

Hey guys, for ease of finding, I've copied them across to the 'Knowledge

Base' on the site. Hope that helps.

Certainly does, Thanks Chris!!

Due to the fact that the seller has been away on holiday and the cost of shipping i collected the item myself yesterday (well my Son took us)It was from Hayling Island, I was surprised to discover it was a two hundred mile round trip in atrocious weather,

On Friday we erected a L shape long wire antenna in the garden, My Wife said, That will make a good extra washing line LOL,

The radio works very well and reception on all bands is very good but i must get around to sorting out the earth, As the set is in the bedroom i was thinking about connecting it to the central heating pipe, Is this a adequate earth?

Also the Guy said there was a extra board inside with a output on the back of the receiver to enable a separate digital frequency readout which would be handy but he didn't know much more about it, Any ideas?

Richard

Richard Sharpe wrote:
:
: The radio works very well and reception on all bands is very good but
: i must get around to sorting out the earth, As the set is in the
: bedroom i was thinking about connecting it to the central heating
: pipe, Is this a adequate earth?

The best possible earth is a conductive spike buried in your garden with a thick wire connected to the chassis of the rig.
Last time I ran a MW rig I tried the heating pipe and it didn't provide a good earth, I think some of the modern heating systems are somehow insulated from earth.

Steve West <...> said:

: A lot bought the first video recording devices (Who opted for putting
: their dosh into Betamax, eh? Come on admit it. I'll put my hand up.
: D'Oh!).

Yup!! had one a Sony and a Video 2000 machine which was great with the ability to flip over the tape and record on the other side exactly the same as a audio tape, They were on of the first VCR's to allow you 8 hours of recording and i believe they even bought out a 16 hour version but i never saw one,

Betamax was the second best format, after Grundig's V2000 system which
was superb!
How the vastly technically inferior JVC VHS system won that race I'll
never understand; Mostly down to clever marketing and better availabilty

of movie releases methinks.

Spot on!! In the early days of home video most people opted to rent the machines from the big chains such as DER, Radio Rentals etc, These were owned by Thorn/EMI who only provided VHS machines like Ferguson etc and i believe there was a tie in with JVC,

There were some independent shops who rented out Betamax but not many, So most of these were bought, Which left the VHS format with the most machines in the market,

Then you had the Video Rental shops, Because there were not many Betamax machines about they didn't keep many movie titles in that format, So if there was a certain film you wanted they may only have in on VHS which made people go out and buy/rent that format, Chicken and egg time!!

Richard

Steve West <...> said:

The best possible earth is a conductive spike buried in your garden with

a thick wire connected to the chassis of the rig.
Last time I ran a MW rig I tried the heating pipe and it didn't provide
a good earth, I think some of the modern heating systems are somehow
insulated from earth.

Thanks for the reply Steve, Yes i did know about the spike in the garden but i was trying to find a shortcut to doing it,

Would a connection to spike compared to the central heating make all that much difference to reception on this sort of receiver?

Richard

My first prize of 2007 goes to Steve – summary 'content is king' for consumers.
Steve mentioned Beta, VideoDisc, and I'll add the first version of BSB with it's over engineered DMAC. Anymore failures due to over engineering and/or little quality consumer content?

Eric

Original Message:

From: Steve Leyland ...
Date: 07 Jan 2007 08:57:29 +0000

VHS system won that race I'll
never understand; Mostly down to clever marketing and better availabilty
of movie releases methinks.

mail2web – Check your email from the web at
http://mail2web.com/ .

Hi Richard
Radio Rentals was the really clever marketing machine.
They launched the try before you rent scheme. You would sign up for a months free trial, show all your mates you had this great new gadget and when it came to the end of the month you had to sign up or look like a plonker – DOH!
And if you were really flash you had the wired remote :-)

Eric

Original Message:

From: Richard Sharpe ...
Date: 07 Jan 2007 09:50:14 +0000

Spot on!! In the early days of home video most people opted to rent the
machines from the big chains such as DER, Radio Rentals etc, These were
owned by Thorn/EMI who only provided VHS machines like Ferguson etc and
i believe there was a tie in with JVC,

mail2web – Check your email from the web at
http://mail2web.com/ .

tesug tesug <...> said:
Hi Richard
Radio Rentals was the really clever marketing machine.
They launched the try before you rent scheme. You would sign up for a
months free trial, show all your mates you had this great new gadget and
when it came to the end of the month you had to sign up or look like a
plonker – DOH!
And if you were really flash you had the wired remote :-)

Morning Eric, I dont remember the try before you rent scheme but i do remember the wired remotes flipping things!! I was always forgetting and tripping over it.

Richard

Quoting a previous Richard Sharpe contribution:-

~

The radio works very well and reception on all bands is very good

It'll be interesting to see what bands and types of broadcasts you settle on making a regular listen to. Am I right in thinking it's been a long while since you were a DX listener?

... wrote:
: My first prize of 2007 goes to Steve

O0oh, what did I win? I do accept paypal, Eric...

: – summary 'content is king' for
: consumers.
: Steve mentioned Beta, VideoDisc, and I'll add the first version of BSB
: with it's over engineered DMAC. Anymore failures due to over
: engineering and/or little quality consumer content?

I still have a Pace D2Mac decoder with one of them dodgy pic-chip smartcards here, it makes quite a good doorstop, but back in ye olde analogue days it was the dog's nads.

Quoting a previous Steve Leyland contribution:-

~

That's very true, I now have one of these beauties:
http://bobscb.com/10Meter/magnum/magnum_s9.htm
It makes the trusty old Cobra 148GTL DX look like pants, and that's
summat I never thought I'd say.

WHAT? Something that makes the Cobra 148 look like pants? Impossible. (Nervous shiver. Twitch. Cold sweat.)

Richard Sharpe wrote:
:
: Thanks for the reply Steve, Yes i did know about the spike in the
: garden but i was trying to find a shortcut to doing it,
: Would a connection to spike compared to the central heating make all
: that much difference to reception on this sort of receiver?

All I can say is try it and see mate, my experience is with transmitters, not receivers.
Of course the heating option would be much more convenient, but that depends on whether or not there is a true path to earth with it in these days of plastic pipes.

Quoting a previous Steve Leyland contribution:-

~

: (TIME TEPRETURE AND TITLE MERCHANTS DOINT
: BOTHER )

I wonder what this bit means in english?

"Yes indeedy, 15 big minutes past the hour of 5, it's 15 chilly degrees out there in Blogo town, and here's a track entitled 'Oh Baby let's boogie' here on Blogo FM."

For further examples listen to Ian Damon on Big L.

Christopher England wrote:
: Quoting a previous Steve Leyland contribution:-
:
: ~

: That's very true, I now have one of these beauties

:: http://bobscb.com/10Meter/magnum/magnum_s9.htm
:: It makes the trusty old Cobra 148GTL DX look like pants, and that's
:: summat I never thought I'd say.
:
: WHAT? Something that makes the Cobra 148 look like pants? Impossible.
: (Nervous shiver. Twitch. Cold sweat.)

Cobra have recently released a new 200 GTL DX rig, which has been universally pronounced as pants with flares and a piss-stain in the crotch by the CB community.

Quoting a previous Steve Leyland contribution:-

~

Cobra have recently released a new 200 GTL DX rig, which has been
universally pronounced as pants with flares and a piss-stain in the
crotch by the CB community.

I may have to lay meself down in a darkened room with a cold compress over my eyes.

Christopher England <...> said:
So which other single organisation is providing a Chill service, a Jazz
service, a Classical service, a kids service, regional and national
bubble-gum services, oldies services, a classic rock service, a rock and
new music service, a hip hop and r'n'b service, etc., etc.?

I would say only Chill, Jazz and Kids are somewhat different. The other service are provided by others in one form or another.