Remember trying to improve an old TV by adjusting the Convergenece
Controls.
I recall, my old Murphy had about 20 potentiometers and other ajustements.
On Thursday, 22 June 2017 08:17:08 UTC+1, DerbyBorn wrote:
Probably lots of them conveniently close to tingly high voltage bits.
I remember when all the 2ps we'd saved for the telephone became useless as the telephone got changed to 5ps and 10ps. (This was of course the telephone box down the road -- we didn't have one in the house.)
And being told to put the radio on at 5 to 1 for the 1 o'clock news - it needed time to 'warm up'.
Owain
Another black and white type.
I have DAB in the car. In general, *reception* is far superior to AM or FM
in the SE of England.
It's very interesting to ask a DAB hater to tell which recording he is
listening to of something simulcast on DAB and FM. Provided you sync them
up and match the levels.
I did just that with a chunk of R2 from FM, DAB and FreeView. A panel of
10 'experts' gave almost entirely random results. But I'd guess even they
might have heard a difference with AM.
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*Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject
Dave Plowman snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk London SW
Good to see you fail to understand posts in pretty plain English again,
Tim.
Perhaps you'd give your interpretation of 'if you love radio don't buy a
DAB' ?
And not in the Boris style of answering a simple question.
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*I pretend to work. - they pretend to pay me.
Dave Plowman snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk London SW
On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:47:26 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
Jim's was just an off the cuff remark, he didn't even say what was
wrong with DAB in his opinion, perhaps it was power consumption, I
mean how long does your DAB portable run for on a PP3?
'if you love radio don't buy a DAB ....... ' seems pretty clear to me.
I don't have any portable radios in use in this house. Just one I take
with me when staying elsewhere. So small enough to fit in the luggage. But
not one which runs from a PP3. Very expensive source of battery power.
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Dave Plowman snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk London SW
yes battery consumption is piss awful whereas my Cokoa pn-204 runs for weeks
on six AA batteries...
https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images3/360/0712/26/boxed-cokoa-pn-204-vintage-russian_360_1c5fac34d748ae7c01205c7640282e4a.jpg
I have DAB and stand alone internet radios coming out of my ears but I
prefer the Russian MW/LW any day.....
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