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we also had five channels except on very clear days with static we got a trinity broadcasting network repeater somewhere deep in tennessee afaik you still can't get cable there unless you want to pay some like five figures in the 90s cost to run the line out
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in my hometown MTV was not available on the cable system because the churches banded together and threatened a mass boycott unless they banned the Satan Hedonism Music Channel so all i had growing up was VH1 this is absolutely not a joke
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Sniep posted:i got an FM radio modulator off ebay that's rated for 24/7 duty cycle that i was thinking of putting rabbit ears on as a household radio station, then piping the last 2-3 episodes of YKS automatically on a raspi to feed it i just do this with a raspberry pi rebroadcasting somafm through a gpio pin. you dont need to go hard with a modulator really https://github.com/ChristopheJacquet/PiFmRds
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Achmed Jones posted:i just do this with a raspberry pi rebroadcasting somafm through a gpio pin. you dont need to go hard with a modulator really if sniep ever does anything he overengineers it and buys surplus commercial gear i'm jealous of his micro FM setup tbh
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Chris Knight posted:Tin whiskers and Brits are coming holy moley
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Jonny 290 posted:i'm jealous of his micro FM setup tbh i mean, me too if im being honest
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also sniep hit me with some search terms for an upgrade, i wanna see how much it'd cost. blonder tongue modulators to do tv broadcast are liek $100-$150 shipped, im hoping an fm doodad would be cheaper (and then i could just pipe audio out to it rather than my hacky pifmrds deal, that poo poo has so much splatter)
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yeah sure those are words
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Diorama posted:when we got a fifth channel it was a big event, the spice girls were on hand to launch it. You didn't miss anything Night fever with suggs Whittle with tim vine But remember when they showed a weekly soft core late night film or uncensored "documentary" about nudist colonies at 8pm Good times
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i guess i got lucky? we had wcbs, wnbc, wnyw, wabc, wwor, wpix and wnet thats still just 7 but they were good i guess
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Achmed Jones posted:also sniep hit me with some search terms for an upgrade, i wanna see how much it'd cost. blonder tongue modulators to do tv broadcast are liek $100-$150 shipped, im hoping an fm doodad would be cheaper (and then i could just pipe audio out to it rather than my hacky pifmrds deal, that poo poo has so much splatter) its literally a blonder tongue fm agile modulator, was like 140 bux shipped  pardon my mess
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lol sick, thanks!
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tripp lite makes a good power plug
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Silver Alicorn posted:tripp lite makes a good power plug all of my power strips are tripp lite isobar it took me a while to replace them one at a time but now anything important is on one e: or a APC smart-ups
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Was not expecting to see RF modulators and QAM encoders in this thread but i'm loving it. Post itt if you know what a time base corrector is.
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Jonny 290 posted:in my hometown MTV was not available on the cable system because the churches banded together and threatened a mass boycott unless they banned the Satan Hedonism Music Channel so all i had growing up was VH1 mtv didn’t have pop up video so clearly this worked out
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Sniep posted:i got an FM radio modulator off ebay that's rated for 24/7 duty cycle that i was thinking of putting rabbit ears on as a household radio station, then piping the last 2-3 episodes of YKS automatically on a raspi to feed it that reminds me, which one of you jokers called in for episode 219?
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susan b buffering posted:that reminds me, which one of you jokers called in for episode 219? wait what
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Sniep posted:i got an FM radio modulator off ebay that's rated for 24/7 duty cycle that i was thinking of putting rabbit ears on as a household radio station, then piping the last 2-3 episodes of YKS automatically on a raspi to feed it this sounds loving awesome
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Rufus Ping posted:You didn't miss anything early days of channel five when they had no loving idea what they were doing were fascinating. yeah sure put on a nudist gameshow with keith chegwin (rip) why not and now they’re just boring and do corporate marketing documentaries
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it's july 1st where is the macbook air m2 sales page timb!?
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champagne posting posted:it's july 1st where is the macbook air m2 sales page timb!?
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I think the make your own tv channel stuff is what might finally get me to put in the time to set up a NAS.
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frogbs posted:Post itt if you know what a time base corrector is.
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frogbs posted:Was not expecting to see RF modulators and QAM encoders in this thread but i'm loving it. sadly,
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frogbs posted:Was not expecting to see RF modulators and QAM encoders in this thread but i'm loving it. I’ve done a lot of random jobs but I never felt more like a real engineer than when I was helping design and build cable system headends
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frogbs posted:Was not expecting to see RF modulators and QAM encoders in this thread but i'm loving it. 
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timb rear end corrector
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u can get a highly illegal chinese fm transmitter for like $100 on amazon. i use one at work. real FCC approved ones new are like 2 grand lol. 1/4 watt vs 1 watt i think idk
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was a revelation when i discovered i could do trick speakers in theatrical settings and also control my outside, lobby, and etc speakers by simply attaching lovely fm receivers to the aux jack of bluetooth speakers lol. extremely cheap solution to being too lazy to run cable
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sometimes, on rare atmosphereic (i assume) occasions, a radio station from san luis obisbo will cut in and replace my muzak with ranchero music
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Achmed Jones posted:where do you live smythe? los angeles
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when i was a little kid my dad had a huge rack of esoteric, discarded enterprise cabletv boxes in the basement. some kind of amplifier and other poo poo. no idea what the hell that stuff did but i assume it had something to do with routing a single decoder to multiple tvs around the house. he also taught me how to use the coax crimper which was hard for my child hands. thanks dad.
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another interesting radio thing that happened to me is i was running some stage monitors a while ago right. so i had this loooong piece of unshielded speaker zip wire running from the phones out of a mixing board to a lovely amp that went to 2 speakers on stage right. anyways the speakers would pick up a weird, subtle ratio station despite no antenna being attached. i think this was due to the huge strand of wire just picking it up or something. it was so weird. you could only hear it if you were really close to the speaker. it was like 300 feet over 2 stories. pretty neat and a little spooky.
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Hed posted:I’ve done a lot of random jobs but I never felt more like a real engineer than when I was helping design and build cable system headends I worked on the transmission side for a small cable channel for a time, right as the switch from RF over coax to fiber was happening. That was a lot of fun. Smythe posted:sometimes, on rare atmosphereic (i assume) occasions, a radio station from san luis obisbo will cut in and replace my muzak with ranchero music Yeah you're probably right, IIRC dense low cloud cover will make AM/FM signals travel further
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Shaggar posted:mobile "games" are a blight yahtzee sums this up pretty well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q30qZSEnI9Q
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Smythe posted:los angeles ah ok cool. i bet i could get that station too then sometimes, im between slo and you
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