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fiver
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yes sir!!.
I have seen a large number of professionals that could 'only' perform the basic fundamentals.
they just happened to be a lot better at doing that than almost anyone else around them.
sports, music, building design, what have you.
I don't think others really recognized that, that is 'ALL' they were doing.
I have seen a large number of professionals that could 'only' perform the basic fundamentals.
they just happened to be a lot better at doing that than almost anyone else around them.
sports, music, building design, what have you.
I don't think others really recognized that, that is 'ALL' they were doing.
And to think about the future ?? Some of these kids know nothing except playing video games will be flying armed drones for the military !
It's really sad the education system has lowered the standards where high school is learning what we learned in 7-9 grade.
I was no brain child fer sure. I Really disliked social studies and history,but was really good in math, and English... we won't talk about.
I was fortunate to have a job I quit my paper route for, after school where at 13 yrs old I learned responsibility to take care of customers,learn electronics,wrap gifts, and count change. This was a small town TV repair shop. Customer service was paramount and by word of mouth, doing quality work at reasonable prices kept the shop busy.
Teenagers today don't want to work at minimum wages and around here it seems that OLDER foreign folks are filling the positions that teenagers used to do back in my day.
Fiver, I'm on an iPad reading here and I should know better than to drink coffee
when on this site. Your Walmart tarp story had my coffee dripping off the face of the screen. Thank goodness I wasn't on my lap top ! Your a hoot!!
Mike
It's really sad the education system has lowered the standards where high school is learning what we learned in 7-9 grade.
I was no brain child fer sure. I Really disliked social studies and history,but was really good in math, and English... we won't talk about.
I was fortunate to have a job I quit my paper route for, after school where at 13 yrs old I learned responsibility to take care of customers,learn electronics,wrap gifts, and count change. This was a small town TV repair shop. Customer service was paramount and by word of mouth, doing quality work at reasonable prices kept the shop busy.
Teenagers today don't want to work at minimum wages and around here it seems that OLDER foreign folks are filling the positions that teenagers used to do back in my day.
Fiver, I'm on an iPad reading here and I should know better than to drink coffee
when on this site. Your Walmart tarp story had my coffee dripping off the face of the screen. Thank goodness I wasn't on my lap top ! Your a hoot!!
Mike
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
TV repair shops! I remember our TV repairman coming to the house, just like our doctor that made house calls, and messing with the magic smoke in those tubes inside the back of the TV. Every time he was there I got a stern warning to never, ever play with anything inside the TV as it would certainly kill me! His name was Roger Glode, long gone to his reward, and we saw him so much that he was almost family! Different times.
fiver
Well-Known Member
I bought my first TV set [B&W] from a repair shop.
10 or 12$ [airc] I learned pretty quickly to not poke around the back of the picture tube with my fingers.
a year or so later I was sitting on the floor of the radio shack pulling tubes and checking them on their tube tester machine.
10 or 12$ [airc] I learned pretty quickly to not poke around the back of the picture tube with my fingers.
a year or so later I was sitting on the floor of the radio shack pulling tubes and checking them on their tube tester machine.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I just saw a tube tester in a flea market a few months back! Same place has a Zenith Transoceanic radio that I'd love to get but it's in real rough shape. I suppose my desire to own one goes back to those old movies of the Brits listening to the "wireless" or the doomer fiction where SW is the only radio left. Odd, the things you think you need...
Not too odd, if I could find an old 40's era table top radio that worked and I didn't need to take out a mortgage on the house to get it I certainly would, If nothing else but for the cool factor. Those old vacuum tubes were sure power hogs not to mention short lived but quite interesting from an era now long gone.
fiver
Well-Known Member
criminy.
I had an am radio that I run wires out the bedroom window and up in the tree behind the house to a big old bunch of antennas I had rigged together just so I could faintly pull in radio stations from phoenix and Denver and sometimes from Montana. [usually only at night time]
they didn't really play anything different than our local stations but I could sit there and imagine I was someplace else for a few minutes when the DJ was doing the news or talking to the locals.
I had an am radio that I run wires out the bedroom window and up in the tree behind the house to a big old bunch of antennas I had rigged together just so I could faintly pull in radio stations from phoenix and Denver and sometimes from Montana. [usually only at night time]
they didn't really play anything different than our local stations but I could sit there and imagine I was someplace else for a few minutes when the DJ was doing the news or talking to the locals.
RBHarter
West Central AR
One night near American falls the only station we could get was KOMA out of Oklahoma City .......
Being due north 500 miles and about 60 west I used to listen to KFI and the Mighty 690 out of LA with the transmitters in TJ Baja . Their all talk radio now but I caught the last year or so that Wolfman Jack was broadcasting .
When we moved to the first house on Walker Lake there was zero radio reception until after dark until maybe 430 in the morning ........... The Navjo radio station out of Picture Rock New Mexico . 2-300 ft up or down the hill , really the next lot of 8 directions , TV AM FM cell service . I just figured it was sitting on a giant iron pile . Turns out it is dead center in the bottom of a granite bowl .
Being due north 500 miles and about 60 west I used to listen to KFI and the Mighty 690 out of LA with the transmitters in TJ Baja . Their all talk radio now but I caught the last year or so that Wolfman Jack was broadcasting .
When we moved to the first house on Walker Lake there was zero radio reception until after dark until maybe 430 in the morning ........... The Navjo radio station out of Picture Rock New Mexico . 2-300 ft up or down the hill , really the next lot of 8 directions , TV AM FM cell service . I just figured it was sitting on a giant iron pile . Turns out it is dead center in the bottom of a granite bowl .
KeithB
Resident Half Fast Machinist
It's funny the way radio waves propagate. I could often pick up Moscow, Havana, London, and lots of other places across the world and yet I couldn't pick up a US station 200 miles away. And some 5Watt ham stations came in clearer than a 5kW commercial station. Lots of pre-Internet fun. This was during the latter stages of the Vietnam mistake. It was interesting to hear news from all over the world and compare it to the news on US media (TV and radio then). Never got a ham license, had trouble sending Morse code, but I did a lot of listening.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I had to go looking for a Transoceanic after I posted. Found out they made a transistor model in later years with the same capabilities. I might just have to buy myself a 1960's era present someday.
Back in the day the NYSP had a habit of taking the factory radio out of the Troop cars and fitting a blank plate over the hole. Apparently they thought listening to staticy AM radio would be a distraction from writing tickets. After 60 some years of that nonsense, someone figured out that it cost more to pull the radio than it was worth and glory be!, we had a staticy radio to listen to. Didn't get crap where I was working in daylight unless you got up on a mountainside with a clear shot at the Albany area. At night you got skip from all over and it wasn't bad...unless you happened to be riding with some crusty old guy that wanted to listen to jazz out of NYC, and I don't mean Benny Goodman/Glen Miller/big band jazz. No, this was that awful modern jazz stuff that sounds like 14 people playing 14 different songs in 8 different tempos with a singer whose language skills were limited to shrieks and grunts and the occasional almost intelligible words. The day he got promoted and no longer worked midnights with me was a very happy one for me.
Back in the day the NYSP had a habit of taking the factory radio out of the Troop cars and fitting a blank plate over the hole. Apparently they thought listening to staticy AM radio would be a distraction from writing tickets. After 60 some years of that nonsense, someone figured out that it cost more to pull the radio than it was worth and glory be!, we had a staticy radio to listen to. Didn't get crap where I was working in daylight unless you got up on a mountainside with a clear shot at the Albany area. At night you got skip from all over and it wasn't bad...unless you happened to be riding with some crusty old guy that wanted to listen to jazz out of NYC, and I don't mean Benny Goodman/Glen Miller/big band jazz. No, this was that awful modern jazz stuff that sounds like 14 people playing 14 different songs in 8 different tempos with a singer whose language skills were limited to shrieks and grunts and the occasional almost intelligible words. The day he got promoted and no longer worked midnights with me was a very happy one for me.
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Tom
Well-Known Member
That's the best description I've ever seen of modern jazz!
fiver
Well-Known Member
I made a remark one time to some kids about needing to let those cats out of their trunk before they ruined all those instruments in there. [they were listening to some kind of jazz]
it took them a second then one of them said you know it does sound like a cat fight in a room full of instruments.
it took them a second then one of them said you know it does sound like a cat fight in a room full of instruments.