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elg110254 wrote:
Have a DX-440 & a DX-398! Both are still going strong! And that 398 has absorbed thousands of miles worth of bumps-n-bruises along the American River Bike Trail !!! Hey, I'm just north of you! Look at my posting "Early morning 49m logs" just posted today. Too bad they'll be abandoning the parkway because of budget cuts. The trail is about to get a lot bumpier, and dangerous, although your average drug addicted thug wouldn't know what to do with a shortwave radio. "What's that, Pedro?" "Uh, it says "ess dubya radio". "What's it do?" "I dunno. It gets lots of weird stuff, like people talking in Chinese." "Does it get The Bomb?" "Uh, not that I know of." "Then it's useless. Toss it." "But does that mean you won't give me any meth for it?" "Get a Discman, hombre, then we'll talk." (The Bomb is our local FM rap music station) Anyway, the guy who got the bad 398 just got unlucky. I used to have a DX440 and AFAIK it's still working well in its new home with a family of Ukranian immigrants who use it to get news from their homeland. |
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Hey T.K., that American River Bike Trail is a hell-zone for portable radios,
especially between Watt Avenue-n-Hazel Avenue! Those transmitters up on El Dorado Hills seem to spit down harmonic spurs which disrupt reception of U.C. Davis' KDVS on 90.3 mhz and Nevada City's KVMR on 89.5mhz! Even before KNCO moved co-channel on 94.1mhz, KPFA was usually static laden! Amazing too how Radio Canada or Radio Netherlands will get buzzed-out in certain zones, even with no nearby overhead wiring! Same-same trying to listen to KNBR 680khz or Ticket 1050! Heck, even Hot Talk 1140 has fade-out zones, incredulous as that may seem! Hopefully the public will put up a fuss and force the County to find funding for this natural resource(like from that uncashed $28 million Lotto ticket perhaps, or have da pols already spent that unexpected largess?)! Thought Dub Shrub's tax cuts were supposed to have stimulated our economy by now! Mayhap our Gropenfuehrer, with his love of all efforts physical, will bequeath a few sheckles from his extensive campaign fund-raisers! |
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elg110254 wrote:
Hey T.K., that American River Bike Trail is a hell-zone for portable radios, especially between Watt Avenue-n-Hazel Avenue! Those transmitters up on El Dorado Hills seem to spit down harmonic spurs which disrupt reception of U.C. Davis' KDVS on 90.3 mhz and Nevada City's KVMR on 89.5mhz! Even before KNCO moved co-channel on 94.1mhz, KPFA was usually static laden! Amazing too how Radio Canada or Radio Netherlands will get buzzed-out in certain zones, even with no nearby overhead wiring! Same-same trying to listen to KNBR 680khz or Ticket 1050! Heck, even Hot Talk 1140 has fade-out zones, incredulous as that may seem! Hopefully the public will put up a fuss and force the County to find funding for this natural resource(like from that uncashed $28 million Lotto ticket perhaps, or have da pols already spent that unexpected largess?)! Thought Dub Shrub's tax cuts were supposed to have stimulated our economy by now! Mayhap our Gropenfuehrer, with his love of all efforts physical, will bequeath a few sheckles from his extensive campaign fund-raisers! I know that even when I lived downtown that KDVS was hard to get. I think they have one of those "Class D" transmitters that only puts out a couple kw, just enough to cover the city of Davis. As for dead spots, they're all over in seemingly random places. Yeah, Shrub's tax cuts have stimulated the economy-if you're a corporate CEO paying yourself a billion dollars a year who can take advantage of them! |
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