On 10/31/09 14:09 , Bill Baka wrote:
HD Radio Farce wrote:
What I fund amusing, is that everytime I post, you counter-post with
nothing but personal attacks. Your lack of understanding of technology
is readily apparent.

*Learn to snip*

It would be nice to see an HD 'build your own' from Radio Shack.
Never gonna happen.


Like DRM, HD would require a licensing fee for the decoding
algorithm. "Build Your Own" would have to come in a pre licensed kit
form. 'The Shack' is interested in serving neither the market for
kit builders, nor the HD radio market enough to take on that cost.

Like all SCA in the late 60's and early 70's, HD is a novelty to
those with the kit building mentality, and not of any real
substance. I built an SCA adaptor kit back then. It was amusing to
hook into the back of my 10 transistor FM radio and get something
other than the baseband audio, but never provided any serious
listening. Just about everyone had one of those SCA adaptor kits in
their catalogs back then. And Popular Electronics, and Popular
Science had instructions for rolling your own. Never caught on.

Bill Baka wrote:
HD Radio Farce wrote:
What I fund amusing, is that everytime I post, you counter-post with
nothing but personal attacks. Your lack of understanding of technology
is readily apparent.

*Learn to snip*

It would be nice to see an HD 'build your own' from Radio Shack.
Never gonna happen.
Understanding a technology and *wanting* it are two very different things.
Back to my tubes.

Bill Baka

The are DRM kits. Unfortunately they are not ibiquity compatible.

D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 10/31/09 14:09 , Bill Baka wrote:
HD Radio Farce wrote:
What I fund amusing, is that everytime I post, you counter-post with
nothing but personal attacks. Your lack of understanding of technology
is readily apparent.

*Learn to snip*

It would be nice to see an HD 'build your own' from Radio Shack.
Never gonna happen.


Like DRM, HD would require a licensing fee for the decoding algorithm.

DRM is non-proprietary.

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/i5xww/DRM%20receiver.jpg

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/i5xww/drm.htm

Bob Dobbs wrote:

D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 10/31/09 14:09 , Bill Baka wrote:
HD Radio Farce wrote:
What I fund amusing, is that everytime I post, you counter-post with
nothing but personal attacks. Your lack of understanding of technology
is readily apparent.

*Learn to snip*

It would be nice to see an HD 'build your own' from Radio Shack.
Never gonna happen.


Like DRM, HD would require a licensing fee for the decoding
algorithm. "Build Your Own" would have to come in a pre licensed kit
form. 'The Shack' is interested in serving neither the market for
kit builders, nor the HD radio market enough to take on that cost.

Like all SCA in the late 60's and early 70's, HD is a novelty to
those with the kit building mentality, and not of any real
substance. I built an SCA adaptor kit back then. It was amusing to
hook into the back of my 10 transistor FM radio and get something
other than the baseband audio, but never provided any serious
listening. Just about everyone had one of those SCA adaptor kits in
their catalogs back then. And Popular Electronics, and Popular
Science had instructions for rolling your own. Never caught on.

Rather than going to the trouble of building a Ramsey Kit
it was much easier to simply find a donated SCA box at a thrift shop
where granny had passed and the kids just said call Goodwill.
I've found several over the years, even one of the Muzak boxes.
With the KPBS Radio Reading Service playing low by the bedside
I could wake up with all the days news subliminally infused.

That's exactly why I generally go to bed with the GE SR I playin' low by my
side.

I got's it on WLS 890 where I get's infused by Hannity, Levin, and after the
ghost hunter crap is over I get's da Midnight Truckin' crew.

I get's infused, baby!

Bob Dobbs wrote:


Rather than going to the trouble of building a Ramsey Kit
it was much easier to simply find a donated SCA box at a thrift shop
where granny had passed and the kids just said call Goodwill.
I've found several over the years, even one of the Muzak boxes.
With the KPBS Radio Reading Service playing low by the bedside
I could wake up with all the days news subliminally infused.

I used to have a Bearcat DX-1000 Communications Receiver that easily
tuned 67 KHz. You just tap the baseband AF (between Detector and Stereo
Demodulator).

dxAce wrote:



I got's it on WLS 890 where I get's infused by Hannity, Levin, and after the
ghost hunter crap is over I get's da Midnight Truckin' crew.

I get's infused, baby!



I listen to Levin on my drive home every afternoon. A lot of his
callers are plants.

Bob Dobbs wrote:
dave wrote:
Bob Dobbs wrote:

Rather than going to the trouble of building a Ramsey Kit
it was much easier to simply find a donated SCA box at a thrift shop
where granny had passed and the kids just said call Goodwill.
I've found several over the years, even one of the Muzak boxes.
With the KPBS Radio Reading Service playing low by the bedside
I could wake up with all the days news subliminally infused.

I used to have a Bearcat DX-1000 Communications Receiver that easily
tuned 67 KHz. You just tap the baseband AF (between Detector and Stereo
Demodulator).

Detector, or discriminator?


Exactly.

D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 10/31/09 14:09 , Bill Baka wrote:
HD Radio Farce wrote:
What I fund amusing, is that everytime I post, you counter-post with
nothing but personal attacks. Your lack of understanding of technology
is readily apparent.

*Learn to snip*

It would be nice to see an HD 'build your own' from Radio Shack.
Never gonna happen.


Like DRM, HD would require a licensing fee for the decoding algorithm.
"Build Your Own" would have to come in a pre licensed kit form. 'The
Shack' is interested in serving neither the market for kit builders, nor
the HD radio market enough to take on that cost.

This is why I hate the shack, they killed the competition and rather
than buy parts when you walk in a sales 'person' tries to sell you
something you don't want. I just say something seriously technical and
the kid runs to look it up. Heathkit, Eico, Conar (televisions),
Lafayette, and more were somewhat healthy into the mid to late 1960's
when a little thing called radio shack came along and catered to the
lazy Americans who stopped buying parts and went to the shack.

Like all SCA in the late 60's and early 70's, HD is a novelty to those
with the kit building mentality, and not of any real substance. I built
an SCA adaptor kit back then. It was amusing to hook into the back of my
10 transistor FM radio and get something other than the baseband audio,
but never provided any serious listening. Just about everyone had one of
those SCA adaptor kits in their catalogs back then. And Popular
Electronics, and Popular Science had instructions for rolling your own.
Never caught on.






SCA always impressed me as much as elevator music, or maybe that is what
it was for?

Bill Baka

dxAce wrote:

Bob Dobbs wrote:

D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 10/31/09 14:09 , Bill Baka wrote:
HD Radio Farce wrote:
What I fund amusing, is that everytime I post, you counter-post with
nothing but personal attacks. Your lack of understanding of technology
is readily apparent.
*Learn to snip*

It would be nice to see an HD 'build your own' from Radio Shack.
Never gonna happen.

Like DRM, HD would require a licensing fee for the decoding
algorithm. "Build Your Own" would have to come in a pre licensed kit
form. 'The Shack' is interested in serving neither the market for
kit builders, nor the HD radio market enough to take on that cost.

Like all SCA in the late 60's and early 70's, HD is a novelty to
those with the kit building mentality, and not of any real
substance. I built an SCA adaptor kit back then. It was amusing to
hook into the back of my 10 transistor FM radio and get something
other than the baseband audio, but never provided any serious
listening. Just about everyone had one of those SCA adaptor kits in
their catalogs back then. And Popular Electronics, and Popular
Science had instructions for rolling your own. Never caught on.
Rather than going to the trouble of building a Ramsey Kit
it was much easier to simply find a donated SCA box at a thrift shop
where granny had passed and the kids just said call Goodwill.
I've found several over the years, even one of the Muzak boxes.
With the KPBS Radio Reading Service playing low by the bedside
I could wake up with all the days news subliminally infused.

That's exactly why I generally go to bed with the GE SR I playin' low by my
side.

I got's it on WLS 890 where I get's infused by Hannity, Levin, and after the
ghost hunter crap is over I get's da Midnight Truckin' crew.

I get's infused, baby!


WTF?
I grew up in Chicago with WLS 890 clear channel rock and roll competing
with WJJD louder rock and roll.
As to the kids who dis their granny and family heirlooms, **** on 'em.
G'night.
Bill Baka

Bill Baka wrote:


SCA always impressed me as much as elevator music, or maybe that is what
it was for?

Bill Baka

During the brief period between the dawn of digital and the mobile
internet, SCA provided "last mile" data delivery in real time for
products like Quotrek (the one on the left).

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...a%3DN%26um%3D1