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As seen in a 1983 Radio Shack catalog.
"Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. 'Cause now I'm an amputee" J. Lennon
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nt
Later Gator,
Dave
I picked it up as a store display piece, expecting to use it after I moved. However I'm still in the same condo years later and can't install it here.
So now it's been promised to a fellow Inmate as soon as I can dig it our of storage.
"I play Kind of Blue every day-it's my orange juice." Quincy Jones
Nt
I wish a few of you had worked in local stores here. I think the main qualification for hiring was if the person could spell their own name.
My favorite RS story: I was shopping for an indoor/outdoor memory thermometer and saw RS carried one. These worked with a sensor on a wire to be placed outdoors while the base unit included a sensor for indoor temperatures. There were a few in a display case but when the sales person took out the demo (batteries installed) I noted the indoor temp reading was different from the outdoor reading, even though the outdoor sensor was placed along side the base unit. I said I didn't want that particular one since it was obviously malfunctioning. The salesperson then tried to convince me why it was accurate for a couple of minutes before relenting and providing another one. That one gave the same reading under the same conditions.
"I play Kind of Blue every day-it's my orange juice." Quincy Jones
off rabbit ears, we had a significant, if close-in, ghost issue,So I knew that Black Mountain Tower's VHF Bnd 1 through 2.5, and FM transmissions were bouncing off one or more of the mountains near us / on the way to us.
So I needed antennas that would help with that.
And I found this thing at Tandy, it covered the required bandwidth, didn't have a lot of gain, which we didn't need, but was directional.
Then UHF TV came along and I bought the arrowhead item, and added some mesh to the reflector. There's a random wire (tuned) AM antenna, as well if you look closely.
Now!? DTV from Black Mountain is all VHF, and the old array was kinda redundant, and so we now have these.
No random-length tuned AM antenna. I'll be buying a locally made - remotely tunable, encased powered coil-based item, to be attached to the mast, soon [ ;-) ].
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 02/09/19
It's too bad that so many inmates have reported having difficulty locating a good FM Yagi. You've certainly encouraged more than a few of them to buy, and use one, Timbo.
"Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. 'Cause now I'm an amputee" J. Lennon
Good pay, great pay plan where your earnings were based on store profit and stock purchase plan but 6 days a week sucked.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
...But I certainly did very little to keep them in business. A few packs of resistors here and there, a 12V transformer, a couple of pair of Minimus 7 speakers (when they went on sale) and the infamous portable CD player which Stereophile's Sam Tellig yanked our collective chains over, were about my only purchases.
Hardly enough to even mention, really.
"Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. 'Cause now I'm an amputee" J. Lennon
I liked working there, even though as a sales person, one's earning potential was highly dependent on location. Working in a downtown location surrounded by office buildings, we sold tons of cassettes and batteries, but it was difficult to sell enough to exceed the hourly sales threshold for commissions.
Still, it was fun, and the downtown location did bring in a lot of colorful characters.
No doubt. I managed the store at 14th and F in DC. Lots of stories......
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
That was around the time I was working for Audio Associates in Tacoma Park MD. I'll bet you have some stories! I do too, but some I probably never will tell!
Dave
I used to go there and Arlington. I loved the IMF's.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
They didn't have IMF in my store, but I did get to hear them at someone's house. They were excellent.
Dave
I think if I did it again now , my wife would be most cross .
Worked out pretty well for us in '83 :)
all the best,
mrh
"Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. 'Cause now I'm an amputee" J. Lennon
I lived right outside NYC and that little $12 turnstile antenna virtually flooded my two tuners with stations, even with a passive splitter.
And they were good quality, too. I remember buying the six-element version in the mid-'80s when I was living out in the county. It did everything I wanted.
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Buy Chinese. Bury freedom.
I found two of the six element models on close out in 1996 for $5 each. I installed one in the attic of a woman I was dating at the time. I kept mine as back-up, and for something to fool around with occasionally. For example:
I didn't read the Radio Shack ad before I posted it the other night, but just noticed that it claims the ten element, ten foot long model receives "Up to 75 miles". Yet the six element, which was shorter (maybe five or six feet, if I remember correctly) says "Up to 110 miles".
Someone must have gotten their ad copy mixed up.
"Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. 'Cause now I'm an amputee" J. Lennon
cool.
B-)
all the best,
mrh
With the fan on "high", the Yagi became omnidirectional, until I wound up all the RG-6, anyway. Then the tuner would be violently yanked from the equipment rack, and swung wildly around the room, often smacking me in the head, knocking me unconscious.
After the third attempt, I ended the experiment.
"Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. 'Cause now I'm an amputee" J. Lennon
I never thought of that. It might just work in my sound room since I am at the highest point in my city. I would need a smaller yagi though.
Dave
...when I was bored, and prior to getting something up on the roof of the house I had just purchased.
It seems to amuse people!
"Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. 'Cause now I'm an amputee" J. Lennon
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