Monday, March 4, 2019

WRITING IN THE DARK -- thoughts about the power grid

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Empty shelves in a grocery store in West Seattle before a local 10 inch snowstorm hit. Photo courtesy of Klem Daniels. As I write thi...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

A LESSON IN PREPAREDNESS -- 30 Hours Without Power, and a Sony Radio.

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I haven't posted much here recently for a bunch of reasons. Some of it is that I just haven't brought myself to finish some posts th...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

June, Frogs, and The End Of The Rock And Radio Age

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JUNE = BLAH It's already closing in on the end of June, and half way through the year 2018. Who would know it? The weather around here...
Sunday, July 1, 2018

Powersound Pickups -- the Ibanez pickups everyone loves to hate

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I have never been an equipment snob. I've never been particularly impressed with popular, name brand equipment, whether in my radi...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

ART BELL -- The Storyteller of the Radio Night-Time

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It was a windy evening. The power was out. I was living alone, and was hungry, so I used my fireplace to make some tea, and then boiled s...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

How to change the SANGEAN PR-D5's MW/AM band channel spacing from 10 khz to 9 khz -- or vice versa

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The Sangean PR-D5 is a popular AM-FM Stereo mini-boombox radio that runs on 6 C cell batteries and is an excellent performer on MW/AM esp...
Friday, February 9, 2018

Radio Shack 200629 Synthesized World Receiver -- how to quickly fix a feedback and whistling noise issue

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The Radio Shack 200629 "PLL Synthesized World Receiver", with a Panasonic external SW antenna. The silver plug is a mono-to-ste...
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