JJkizak

The four alien bodies from Roswell ,New Mexico were flown to Wright/Pat in Ohio. HA HA. Well my skooba diving buddy and I were in the local slop shoot in Twinsburg, Ohio about 15 years ago and struck up a conversation with and old guy in ill health. His name was Mr. Ball and he lived in Hudson, Ohio. My buddy started talking about the diving test tank at Wright/Pat where they licensed divers at a 100 fit level. Mr. Ball said the tank was removed and that it was near the infamous hanger 18. Mr. Ball also said he had a top secret clearance and worked at Oak Ridge in World War II at the Manhatten Project. While visiting the base one day he was asked to witness an autopsy. He said OK and they took everything from him and dressed him in an all white suit. They carved up the 3rd alien body from Roswell and said the 4th was shipped to area 51. Mr. Ball died about two years later. About 3 years ago I met and be-friended an hydralic salesman in Mcdonalds in Twinsburg and after a few months of bullcrapping the Roswell thing came up and we talked about Wright/Pat. He said he sells a lot of cyrognic valves to them and one day he casually mentioned something about aliens. A Captain came up to him and reamed his butt every which way. Then he found out that everything at Wright/Pat is underground and most of the stuff above ground was a ruse. He said he never mentioned anything about aliens again while at Wright/Pat. He had said to me that the captain implied that "very bad things" could happen his way". The latest "rumors" had 31 alien bodies and everything was shipped to area 51 which is all underground also. Addendum: While I was in the Navy off Gittmo Bay we were having a full blown gun excersize and during a lull the fire control radar picked up a large target at about 20 miles away. We locked on and it was motionless in the air for a couple of minutes. All of the stations were fully manned due to being in the middle of general quarters. It started to move toward our destroyer and then really started moving fast and we lost it when it travelled overhead. The computer revealed a speed of 1800 mph. This was in 1961. Oh well I guess it was a weather balloon. JJK

Stading waves means the reverse wave is interferring with the frontal wave. I would like to see how that is measured. Seems to me that you would have to be weened from MIT or Bell Labs to figure that one out to get valid measurements. JJK

The Sony tv's aren't really noted for their sound quality. My KV-34HS510 has pretty bad sound but if I tap off the LG external tuner with the 5.1 its pretty good. Although the networks seem to want to broadcast 5.1 with very little substance in the center channel unless there is a commercial or narration then the center channel booms in like it's supposed to. JJK

One of the best I have seen was an girl type jazz drummer in an Isrealy band on PBS. Just outstanding. JJK

The rest of the details of the ticket caper would be interesting. JJK

Got it. JJK

The only thing I don't like is the body. I would remove it and install either a 69 body or a new Viper body. The technical aspects of the engine & drivetrain are just fine. The "chevette" plastic interior has always reminded me of an old Crosley or Henry J. Nowhere near the quality of a $70k car. I have owned a 1967 big block, 1968 L-88, 1969 small block, 1979 small block, and restored about 8 of them. Actually the Viper has the best interior. JJK

I have settled on the coax (50 ft lengths) rather than the toslink with my limited hearing range (20 to 12.5khz) and antiquated DVD and CD players. Didn't notice any difference except some slight volume changes. JJK

I am not too worried about it as I use the analog to component conversion cable (36 ft length) to view 1080i on my Sony HDTV (tube type) from the MY-HD-120 video tuner card. I also have a DVI cable (36ft length) and the quality is for all practical purposes the same. The HDMI cable was invented to contain the audio and picture to replace the DVI cable which is only picture. It also has smaller connectors for running cables through the walls. The HDMI cable from what I can see was to help installers, faster. The DVI connector requires a hole over 1.5 inches. JJK

Will there be upgrades for your older networks? JJK

Dean: So now do we have to upgrade the previous networks we received from you? JJK

OOOOPPss sorry, wrong UPS. JJK

They made a huge difference in my speakers. JJK

In 1969 I lived in an apartment complex of 8 apartments in one building, two story. I would crank up the horns on Saturday morning and then would hear many doors slamming and cars starting and leaving the area. I would feel real bad about it but then when the "trumpet guy" would start practicing his scales out on the second story balcany it didn't bother me anymore. There was not one complaint during my tenure, not even the garbage can full of empty beer cans rattling down the stairs. Then I would leave and crank up the L-88 Corvette and the resounding echos from the carport would fill the valley with the sounds of youthfull vigor. The apartment and carport rented for $169.00 per month in a very hoy-poloy area. The apartments are still there and so are the carports and I often wonder what the rent is. JJK

One thing to check is if the cables pull out the ground shields on the player connectors. Some of them are very cheap and the new tight fitting cable connectors will actually rip out the shields. But if this hum problem has occurred over time it has to be (maybe) something internal with the player/players. JJK

Sunnysal: Well, you really torpedoed my boat and I am sinking fast. A couple of things, I wasn't speaking of gas thyratrons (I worked on them in military amplidyne drives). I used to watch my Fisher finals pulse blue glowing variations every time there was a bass note and passed it off as cheapo junk but it did not seem to have an effect on things. Now I find out it was engineered for the "drug" generation that liked to watch bright pulsing lights in time with the beat. It is kind of cool though to see the tubes straining to get those huge notes out. It might help the efficiency of the tube to encircle it with a magnetic adjustable coil to focus the electron stream and keep the stray electrons from bouncing away from the main stream. Then again it might concentrate it so much you might burn a hole in the plate. JJK

I usually don't get impressed very easily but that guy can flat play that thing. My impression is that after seeing him perform at the Newport Jazz Festival he is 100% dedicated to that instrument, even when he sleeps. JJK

Sunnysal: You have to be kidding ,right? The blue glow is caused by gasses inside the tube. The tubes have "getters" to constantly remove the gas as the people that designed the tubes did not want any gas to interfere with electron flow, that's why they are in a vacuum. Audio wise won't make much difference but RF wise it's a disaster. In the tube days (you are trying to relive a dead issue) blue glowing tubes were tossed out and discarded like maggets on a dead racoon. The more gas in the tube the more the electrons are deflected, hence more noise, lower performance, more intermodulation distortion etc. JJK

I'm not sure if the term "slam" is appropriate. I kind of like the term "sensual clobberation". The difference between a bass drum going "bam" and "kaboom, what the hell was that?" The AK-100 gives me that and the added Equalizer cuts down that 400-600 response. The newer mixes seem to do better because of my dual receiver setup, one powering the K-horns and the other powering everything else. The AK-100 and equalizer are in the K-horns only. SPL comes into the equation very rapidly in my poor acoustic environment and high levels tend to change things between lows, mids, and highs. I figure it will take me another 20 years to figure it out. JJK

From what you say I believe your signal strength is not strong. FM travels in straight lines and your in a hole. If the transmitting antenna is 1000 ft high you can usually pick it up ok from 46 miles away as long as you are not in a hole. (curvature of the earth). There are other factors, (ducting) and Ralieghe's distribution (spelling). I would put up a gigunda antenna. Also the noise figure of your receiver comes into question. Should be at least 3 to 4 db. When you hear the noise background you are running about 10 db quieting on the receiver. (not enough signal). You can duplicate this with precision test equipment and see what I mean. You need at least 20 db quieting to get rid of the noise. It might be cheaper to go satellite rather than put up a huge antenna and a $4000 receiver and cut a Panama Canal through your mountain. If you can round up an old military Parametric Amplifier (noise figure 1.8 db, 20 db quieting at -100 dbm) that would really help but unfortunately they cost about 100K new. JJK

MCM electronics sells these real cheap. They are online www.mcmelectronics.com JJK

With the RSW-12 I got the lows and with the Hughes AK-100 I got the slam. JJK

HD TV ready means you will need an HD tuner for over the air, a different one for cable, and a different one for satellite. Nice HUH? You also want the biggest antenna around if you use over the air as if the signal is weak the in/out stuff will drive you nuts. Most stations here are switching to HD and usually have 2 or 3 digital channels to boot. The sound and picture are also delayed about 1/2 to 1 second for the HD stuff and they get it confused sometimes. (low budget). They all seem to like different aspect ratios and sometimes send you short fat people, etc. The new tuners have 18 different zoom aspect ratios to use. It is absolute aspect chaos at this time becuase when people buy a $3k HDTV 16 x 9 they don't want to look at a 4 x 3 picture because they bought the set to look at a 16 x 9 picture. So they look at short fat people and say to you "isn't that a great picture?" JJK

DrWho: Don't get caught up in this digital longevity syndrome as there are huge debates going on as to the longevity of digital discs. Present 2005 realities say some last 1 day, some last 1 year, some last 10 years, and some last 30 years and then only if you buy the $30.00 blank discs. And this would be the commercial pressed discs and not the burned discs. Your in never never land with burned discs. The plastic slowly degrades and forms a pit, and one pit and the glove don't fit. (I had to throw that in there) When analog degrades it stumbles through while playing but digital can jump all the way forward, all the way back and never play properly again. It's like trying to watch a High Def program on over the air television with a weak, varying signal strength which absolutely drives you nuts because you loose the picture and sound completely. It's for all practical purposes un-watchable. Good luck 10 years from now. JJK

What MrMcGoo means is that 90% of the music is compressed, not lost. JJK