We had 3 channels in Bakersfield, CA. 17, 23 & 29. Those were UHF.
Cable TV was a company that setup a huge antenna to pick up the Los Angeles stations and cable them into people??s homes. My parents were too cheap to pay for that. A friend figured out all you had to do was screw the coax cable into the back of the TV and cable was free. The previous owner had it and when they moved out the cable company didn??t disconnect it up on the pole.
I moved to Sacramento in 1982 and discovered a fourth station, Channel 6 PBS.
Rassenfrassen 50 year-old kids these days, mumble, mumble, mumble............
It just happens.?ÿ Reminds me of the commercial where the supervisor looks in on a subordinate and rattles off a stream of acronyms and initials, but no real words.?ÿ Towards the end, one coworker asks another if she had read his email.?ÿ Her response was TLTR.?ÿ What??ÿ Too Long To Read.
Today's world revolves around snippets.?ÿ New Ford SUV.?ÿ Lemon. Good deal. Frequent breakdowns. Better than a Kia. Got robbed.?ÿ Brakes fail at 50,000 miles. Sweet.?ÿ No one wants to form sentences when snippets will do.?ÿ You're at the computer and it takes more than two seconds for something to open and you are saying, "Come on.?ÿ Come on.?ÿ I don't have all day."?ÿ The same information we used to wait a week or two to get from some remote source.
The whole world has developed ADD or ADHD.
Sorry. TLTR. My bad.
So, now I'm Flo the insurance lady whose sister has her drop by and talk about insurance to get the baby to fall asleep.
JK!!
The whole world has developed ADD or ADHD.
Sorry. TLTR. My bad.
It's not your imagination...
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127370598
Excellent read, both article and book.
Walked into the office yesterday afternoon to pick up a couple of items and my new DC was on. Scratching my head I looked at it and a local Amber Alert was showing up as the reason it was on. That Alert came some hours before, my first reaction was to shut down the DC so it wouldn't be dead in the morning, my second was to wonder how it got on my DC. The DC doesn't have a sim card, a phone plan.
Anyone know how that works?
I'm speculating all cellular capable devices connect to the cell towers. Only those authorized are able to use the service and all devices are authorized for emergency use, thus amber alerts going to all devices regardless of plan paid status.
a quick google search.
In some countries, such as the United States and England, people can connect to an emergency number such as 911 or 999 even if their SIM cards are not working properly. Note that it is not the SIM card but the antenna of your phone that connects you to a network tower.
A SIM card only has the phone number and carrier info, so it??s unnecessary to make an emergency call. In such cases, since the SIM is dysfunctional, the emergency service center does not get the caller ID or the caller??s location, but the call can be connected.
@lurker?ÿ
I would have expected location would be sent. Even if not assisted by GNSS, the cell towers can get an approximate location.
Turned off the alerts, it's a little creepy that this DC is connected like that.?ÿ
@dmyhill?ÿ
It's a DC, it's super fast.?ÿ
I can't believe how quick it is with my R8's.
I had no idea it would be like that.?ÿ
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R8S , not R8, right? Unless maybe you have a R8 model 3 or 4?
@robertusa?ÿ?ÿ
Nope, R8, the second version with GNSS, R82 I believe they're called.?ÿ
With this DC they have become renewed.?ÿ
@robertusa?ÿ?ÿ
Nope, R8, the second version with GNSS, R82 I believe they're called.?ÿ
With this DC they have become renewed.?ÿ
Not even a light collector could make the R8-2 usable again. It??s very slow and constellation challenged compared to my R12i.
As a kid I lived in Canada within a few miles, literally, of the US Border. So we got ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS out of Seattle, a local station out of Bellingham, WA, and CBC and CTV out of Vancouver. At least on a good day. On bad days CBC and Bellingham were it. But as long as you could pull in the CBC you got "Hockey Night in Canada".?ÿ
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Two days in the field with the TCD 600 and I very happy with it. It makes surveying in the field so much easier. I still have lots to learn about the functions and settings, but the performance it much quicker than my older DC's which I felt were fine. With this one I often simply hold it in my hand separate from the rod and use the rod as a carrier for the DC when hiking.?ÿ
The functions are more intuitive than the old one, now that I've spent two days with it, I realize what I've been missing. The screen is easy to see, the map function is super helpful. The routines I thought were missing with the new one I found weren't needed anyway since they've jumped passed those routines.?ÿ
Although the screen is easy to see even in sunlight, the one thing I don't like is the numbers and letters are kinda small. I really can't bring reading glasses with me, maybe I should anyway, yuck!!! ?????ÿ
They made a movie about OUR problem. It was called: No Country for Old Men.
When I was a kid, the phone book was small but the letters were big.?ÿ Now the phone book is big and the letters are tiny.
When I didn't need prescriptions the letters on the box/bottle were big.?ÿ Now the letters on the bottle are microscopic, but apparently important.
