Poor Barack. His campaign is trying to recapture the magic of 2008. Right now he’s a brand in search of a slogan. They’ve road-tested a few, but are not very happy with them:
- Winning the Future
- We Can’t Wait
- An America Built to Last
- An Economy Built to Last
- A Fair Shot
Mickey Kaus at the Daily Caller is having a contest of sorts to help him along (his suggestion: “We Can Do Better” – if only to keep Romney from using it). We should do the same.
h/t: Instapundit
177 SD I remember the first synthesized transciever that I built from a kit. It was a Heath (Grief Kit) 2-Meter xcvr with mechanical-digital switches to adjust the frequency between 144 and 148 mhz. This was a big improvement over my Icom xtal controlled rig, but then there were only a handful of 2-meter repeaters in Houston in the 70’s.… Read more »
#162;
Timmy turn the wheel, turn the wheel Timmy. 🙂
One more thing for folks like bob and squawk, 135.975 could NOT be accomplished with a crystal, it was done with a SMO, Frequency Synthesizer or Phased Locked Loop, whatever you want to call it. 😉
#172 bob42
You’ve restored my faith in humanity. 😉
#167 Squawk Super Dave Yeah I remember that Midland thing. Wasn’t that right before the new expanded model had 40 channels or something over the original 19? Yup, You have been there, Thanks for reminding me, I think the problem was not so much the extra power, but the fact that the over powered units would bleed over to other… Read more »
mharper; But your “gold plates” were supposed to be from New England, right? They were found in a hill in upper state New Yourk, correct. Where they were forged or originated in the Americas is not known. The angel Moroni showedthe plates to Joseph Smith and while in mortality Moroni was the last caretaker of the plates. The way the… Read more »
I and my field strength meter, SWR meter and Smith charts are outta here for the night.
I’m proud to say that I never owned a CB radio. When folks would ask, “Hey, do you know how to build one of them linear amps?” I’d reply, “It sounds easy enough, but I’m not going to do it.”
Texpat (PBUH) Anyway, Chip Davis and his partner, Jackson Berkey, went on to fame and fortune as the guys who created the instrumental powerhouse, Mannheim Steamroller. When they shopped their first album to all the major record companies, nobody wanted anything to do with them. So they created American Gramaphone which not only housed and played Mannheim Steamroller, they also… Read more »
I’m cute period.
#149 Darren Stoner mharper Whew, in context I thought you were accusing me of participating in the 70’s dopery that was being discussed. (Nope, although I have admitted here that I once grew some marijuana plants from seed, but I was studying botany at the time.) You wasted your time digging out all that info on metallurgy in South America.… Read more »
#155 Darren, you’re cute when you’re being irrational.
Super Dave
Yeah I remember that Midland thing. Wasn’t that right before the new expanded model had 40 channels or something over the original 19?
/My tin foil hat looks better than your tin foil hat. 😉
GJT
#159
Guess no one lernt him nuthin huh?
Super Dave
AMEN brother……. see my #164
Texpat ‘C.W.MCall” guy was an insurance salesman or something like that. Heh all the truckers I knew hated him. Rubber duck and all that crap. 4 wheelers would break into “our converstions” wanting to start convoys and crap. Then came Smokey and the Bandit. You would not believe the Burt Reynolds wannabes that wanted to be hired to run ahead… Read more »
#124: Shamaal, Are those your genuine positions on the subject or is it merely your attempt at humor? This is an honest question. I’ll check for an answer in the am.
My eyelids need to be checked for holes, and it is gonna take me all night.
I guess all Democrats still in power are going scorched earth, not that any in GOP leadership or McRomdole will do a damned thing to take advantage of it.
One more thing about CB’s back in about 1976-77 Midland had a recall on all of their radios because they said that the radios were putting out more power than the FCC allowed. I have NO IDEA if this was true, BUTT I do know that the shelves at Radio Shack and Gibson’s Discount Center in Brunswick Georgia were clean… Read more »
I was listening to the governor of Maine being interviewed tonight. He’s a Republican and trying desperately to cut taxes there because they are losing affluent, higher tax paying residents to low tax states at a rapid rate. He said Maine and other New England states are all worried because New Hampshire passed Right to Work laws in their last… Read more »
Meester Squawk, used my last bit of scroll wheel lube and gave it a whirl. The community bucket of scroll wheel lube at the door is empty, Darren never contributes.
#148 Squawkster, I didn’t mean to pull your chain, BUTT, back in another life I was an Avionics Technician, worked on Nav/Com Transceivers, ADF’s, Glide Slope, Marker Beacons, DME’s, Transponders, HF’s, Radar, Radar Altimeters and Autopilots. This was when the CB craze was in full force and EVERY IDIOT had one and most of them wanted me to crank up… Read more »
Squawk One of the weirder stories in the music biz is that of “C.W. McCall”. He was the fictitious persona of a guy named Bill Fries and created by his friend, composer and record producer, Chip Davis. Davis was a classically trained musician, but, hey, everybody’s got to make a living. Anyway, Chip Davis and his partner, Jackson Berkey, went… Read more »
De nada. I must be like Peter and either go none at all or go all the way. 🙂
Squawkie turn the wheel, turn the wheel Squawkie.
bob #142; Yup, it was. I was 18. Thanks. That’s all I needed but will still include the following: Three years later the chief engineer and one of the sharper dudes I’ve known offered me a line of coke after we’d done maintenance on a transmitter. I tried it then, and again a couple of weeks later. That was enough… Read more »
So BSue has forced me into watching THE VOICE where they are featuring female guitarists on 8 foot stilts. Sigh. Where is Ted Mack and the original Amateur Hour?
Geez Darren must be trying to write a freaking book. Thanks pal I broke my scroll wheel get through that last 2 comments. 😉
mharper (your posts/land model /Stubbs); Now, if I read your posts correctly you seem to think that the Book of Mormon peoples settled only in North America. There are LDS members who think as much and that’s fine but I don’t. I once thought of the people being exclusively in North America then I changed that to incorporating both North… Read more »
C.W. McCAll should be hung, cut, shot, drawn and quartered and then exiled to Patmos for stirring up the CB craze.
#146 Super Dave, the key word there is “after we’d done maintenance on a transmitter.” I got my 3rd class w/broadcast endorsement while in high school, and my 2nd class phone during my stoner days in college. Neither he nor I worked on anything while under the influence of anything. Between us we took care of three stations in the… Read more »
Stoner mharper CC: Stoner Hamous (“Stoner” = Stone Ager) This is actually my third attempt to respond to your follow up on Indians being Stone Aged culture. The first time I erased my response accidentally (in case I did not make that clear) and that was a lengthy response. My second response was being typed on Word and the dog… Read more »
AKA the spawn of the Debil. Just like telephones, if you got one some jackarse is gonna “call it”.
Known in the biz as the poor man’s John Wayne.
Yup, it was. I was 18. Three years later the chief engineer and one of the sharper dudes I’ve known offered me a line of coke after we’d done maintenance on a transmitter. So this dude had a First Class License?!?! He HAD to have one to work on ANY transmitter and he was such a STUPID SOB that he… Read more »
#141 texpat
Not stumbled, as you mentioned it’s well documented. He was what would now be called a philo-semite.
But he was still a product of his times that identified Jews as being a separate race as opposed to merely being an ethnic group. He writes in the article of atheistic jews.
Hopefully that type of folderol is dying out.
We had a reasonably good captcha system that they would get hung up on, but I had one romanian server that I think employed unoccupied livejazmin girls to do the replies. Eventually it became overwhelming.
#59 Hamous
Did anybody else recognize the distinctive voice of the Matt Clark character, the railroad detective, on the Black Bart video clip ?
If you did, then you probably realized it was this guy.
#123 Darren So, tell me, was the first illegal drug you used cannabis? You know, before the coke? Yup, it was. I was 18. Three years later the chief engineer and one of the sharper dudes I’ve known offered me a line of coke after we’d done maintenance on a transmitter. I tried it then, and again a couple of… Read more »
#132 shamaal
If you’ve accidentally stumbled upon the widely known fact Winston Churchill was both a great admirer of the Jews and also a critic at certain times in his life, well, congratulations…blind hogs, acorns and all that.
Shamaal Yeah they were a pain to deal with. I went through our LST registrants and culled some 2000 names one weekend (boredom). Checked again the next and 100+ replaced them. I found that a strong captcha system was the best way to keep the bots out. I thought about blocking throw-a-way email addys but that would have blocked bunches… Read more »
This is interesting, Herman Cain is feting Bartbreit at his next 9-9-9 Patriot Summit rally. And it has free liquor!
Reception Honoring Andrew Breitbart Sun, April 15 5:30pm EDT
Patriot Summit registration at 4:30pm EDT and reception from 5:30pm-7:30pm. Includes complimentary cocktail reception & awards reception honoring Andrew Breitbart. Location: Renaissance Arlington Capitol View
Apr 14, 2012 Free
Well the Boy called to ask me a trivia question, 90% of the folks here would know the answer but he and his bride didn’t,…where did the Teddy Bear get his name? I S’plained it all, I even told him about “Big Medicine” 😉 Introduced in 1904, the .405 Win. cartridge was the most powerful round ever developed for a… Read more »
Just punching the IP into google would bring up good info. I had 6 servers in Russia and environs that vBulletin could filter out. But them suckers were ingenious in hopping around. As soon as I discovered them, another two would pop up.
These guys still want the traitor released. The White House rejected the appeal by Israeli president Shimon Peres to grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard on Monday, saying its position hasn’t changed, and that the president has no intention to release Pollard. President Shimon Peres sent a personal letter to President Obama on Monday, urging Obama to consider granting clemency to… Read more »
I used to check the registration email via Google. There are plenty of places that track forum spammers. I’d grab there IP addy etc and plug it into this plugin. I also added captcha to the registration page while leaving the other folks alone when they sign in.
So why do we have to read about this in a UK paper for IT folks? I smell a conspiracy to keep the truth from us. 😉 Rabid skunks attack US A persistent drought and a mild winter has caused a spike in the number of rabid skunks invading the the suburban landscapes of states from up in South Dakota… Read more »
Whoohoo Saw our first hummingbird of the season. One of God’s little pleasures. He flew right up to my face as if to ask if the diner was going to re-open this year. I love them little critters.
#25 texpat All right, I’ll take the bait. The conflict between good and evil which proceeds unceasingly in the breast of man nowhere reaches such an intensity as in the Jewish race. The dual nature of mankind is nowhere more strongly or more terribly exemplified. We owe to the Jews in the Christian revelation a system of ethics which, even… Read more »
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More than I wanted to know about it.
Proved nightly by a guy who will never sign his own paycheck. Unless he gets one of those GSA Commissioner gigs.