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[email protected] December 3rd 04 04:14 PM

Yep,I definetly Agree.Mary Ann.Downnnn by the Seashore sifting sand,,,
Mary Ann.

......D-Day Larry
(cuhulin)


drewdawg December 3rd 04 06:36 PM

In ,
Jim Burgan typed:
Since we're on it, was there *not* one episode of the show where the
announcer on the radio said, "This is KGU Honolulu"?

I keep thinking it was uttered on an episode, but I'm not
sure....maybe it
was in a dream of mine....I just thought it unusual to hear *actual*
calls &
COL on a fictional show....

Did this *really* happen?


Could be. I haven't watched a GI episode in many years....


Not in the first season, for sure.
I purchased the first season on DVD and I've seen them all with no
legal ID on the radio.
Yes, I admit that bought the first season... those black & white
episodes with the opening theme that calls the professor & Mary Ann
"and the rest". They went to color in year 2 and changed the theme to
give credit to Russ & Dawn.


While this thread is still alive I remember when Gilligan's head became a
radio and the skipper mentioned that if there were two of him they could
have stereo. This was years before Kahn am-stereo. Hmmmm :-\



Brenda Ann December 3rd 04 08:58 PM


"drewdawg" wrote in message
...
In ,
Jim Burgan typed:
Since we're on it, was there *not* one episode of the show where the
announcer on the radio said, "This is KGU Honolulu"?

I keep thinking it was uttered on an episode, but I'm not
sure....maybe it
was in a dream of mine....I just thought it unusual to hear *actual*
calls &
COL on a fictional show....

Did this *really* happen?

Could be. I haven't watched a GI episode in many years....


Not in the first season, for sure.
I purchased the first season on DVD and I've seen them all with no
legal ID on the radio.
Yes, I admit that bought the first season... those black & white
episodes with the opening theme that calls the professor & Mary Ann
"and the rest". They went to color in year 2 and changed the theme to
give credit to Russ & Dawn.


While this thread is still alive I remember when Gilligan's head became a
radio and the skipper mentioned that if there were two of him they could
have stereo. This was years before Kahn am-stereo. Hmmmm :-\



But not years before XETRA (then XTRA) were experimenting with AM stereo
using a sort of split modulation scheme (right channel modulating one
sideband and the left modulating the other). They used this for many years.
I used to be able to use two radios, one tuned to each sideband to listen to
(very poor separation) stereo. The system was called the Kahn ISB system,
which stood for Independant SideBand.

25) The sad AM Stereo Saga

a.. 1960 - AM Stereo first demonstrated on XETRA, Tijuana, MX, using the
Kahn ISB system.



Michael Black December 3rd 04 09:02 PM


"drewdawg" ) writes:

While this thread is still alive I remember when Gilligan's head became a
radio and the skipper mentioned that if there were two of him they could
have stereo. This was years before Kahn am-stereo. Hmmmm :-\



I'm sure that was a joke about stereo, but I seem to recall one of
Gilligan's fillings was acting as a rectifier, in effect a simple crystal
radio. Though how there'd be a signal strong enough to be rectified by
that, no antenna after all, way off on that isolated island, I have no idea.

A similar thing happened on The Partridge Family. Laurie gets braces,
and suddenly she is picking up radio signals.

The explanation was a bit off, because it only happened when some guy
with a transistor radio (one that fit in your palm) was nearby with
the radio playing. The braces might have worked as a rectifier, but
only in the presence of a strong radio signal. The radio would at most
be radiating a weak signal, and the local oscillator which would be
more likely to radiate than the IF would not convey modulation whichis
what Laurie was picking.

The kid with the transistor portable was played by Mark Hamill.

Michael


[email protected] December 3rd 04 10:55 PM

But thereby lays the rub.Women's brains are wired differently than us
dudes brains and women can concentrate on two or more things at the same
time.Us dudes brains can't do that.
cuhulin


Bob Haberkost December 4th 04 06:18 AM


"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
...

"drewdawg" wrote in message
...
In ,
Jim Burgan typed:


While this thread is still alive I remember when Gilligan's head became a
radio and the skipper mentioned that if there were two of him they could
have stereo. This was years before Kahn am-stereo. Hmmmm :-\


But not years before XETRA (then XTRA) were experimenting with AM stereo
using a sort of split modulation scheme (right channel modulating one
sideband and the left modulating the other). They used this for many years.
I used to be able to use two radios, one tuned to each sideband to listen to
(very poor separation) stereo. The system was called the Kahn ISB system,
which stood for Independant SideBand.


That's what drewdawg was talking about. Kahn had a prototype of this system on WABC
in the late '50s. At the time, it was an idea called "powerside", because all the
power was in one sideband. The concept was that you could pack more stations into
the spectrum, since each one would only use on side of the channel. I think it was a
bonehead idea, myself.
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Stereophile22 December 5th 04 03:39 AM

While this thread is still alive I remember when Gilligan's head became a
radio and the skipper mentioned that if there were two of him they could
have stereo. This was years before Kahn am-stereo. Hmmmm


might have been a goof in the writing or might not have been. Stereo was
invented way back before the 60's. A radio station here once played stereo
records from the 1930's!!!

It just wasn't used much or wasn't popular until later.

I'm pretty sure that people knew what stereo was in the 50's. Although not on
FM radio.

So even if it wa a goof, it can still be explained away.

Today, we know what 3-D tv and holographic tv is, but how many people have
them? ;)

It's my understanding that they can't even do holographic tv yet (unless
possibly if it's only still images instead of moving images), yet we know what
it is.

Back in the 30's and 40's, most people only had radios, but they probably knew
what tv was, and were probably waiting for it to be invented.

And yes, I'm aware that tv was being worked on even back then, and that there
were experimental tv stations broadcasting then.



Stereophile22 December 5th 04 03:48 AM

But thereby lays the rub.Women's brains are wired differently than us
dudes brains and women can concentrate on two or more things at the same
time.Us dudes brains can't do that.
cuhulin


yes, but women's brain can do something that us dudes' brains can't, which
drives me crazy since the women expect us dudes to always be able to do it, and
we can't.

That is mind-reading. The women expect us dudes to know stuff without being
told, that is completely impossibl for us to know without being told.

Stuff like meeting them at a certain place and time they changed their mind and
decided to be at after leaving the house, without ever telling you where or
when or that they changed their mind while you're still at the house.

Telling you to cook to spaghetti for supper at the house while they go grocery
go shopping, and then when they get back, they're angry at you for making
spaghetti for supper, becaue they changed their mind to wanting you to make
chicken for supper at the grocery store, and expect that you should have known
that they changed their mind to you making chicken for supper insstead of
spaghetti while they were at the grocery store without them ever calling you to
tell you they changed their mind, and without ever teling you they changed
their minds at all, until they get back and yell at you for making spaghetti
for supper that they told you to instead of making chicken for supper that they
changed their mind to while they were away, without ever telling you they did
so.





Stereophile22 December 5th 04 03:53 AM

idea called "powerside", because all the
power was in one sideband. The concept was that you could pack more stations
into
the spectrum, since each one would only use on side of the channel. I think
it was a
bonehead idea, myself.


not as boneheaded as an earlier U.S. government idea

to purposely assign all (and I mean all) broadcast stations in the entire
country to the exact same frequency.

which is exactly what they did.

You can just imagine the interference.

They were all AM mode.





clifto December 8th 04 08:27 PM

Stereophile22 wrote:
not as boneheaded as an earlier U.S. government idea

to purposely assign all (and I mean all) broadcast stations in the entire
country to the exact same frequency.

which is exactly what they did.

You can just imagine the interference.


Yeah, but you never missed your favorite programs, even when two or more
were on at the same time.

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