14 Jan 2016, 4:48 am
14 Jan 2016, 4:53 am
auntblabby wrote:
I wanted to be a broadcast engineer or at least a recording engineer but life had other plans for me.
I've been a broadcast engineer
in both FM radio (KRRR-FM) and also analogue TV with a small cable system in southeast Wyoming.
A recording engineer would have been cool also, but the closest I got was remastering vinyl to CD for radio stations. (My self-inflicted hearing impairment had a lot to do with that). I still remain proud in my disc jockey heritage, though.
My AirForce retiree father was involved in AFRTA (Armed Forces Radio-Television Assoc.) communications back in the 1960's (nowdays I think it's called DVID's?)
http://www.filmon.com/channel/dvids-tv
14 Jan 2016, 7:24 am
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14 Jan 2016, 2:06 pm
Rockymntchris wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I wanted to be a broadcast engineer or at least a recording engineer but life had other plans for me.
I've been a broadcast engineer
in both FM radio (KRRR-FM) and also analogue TV with a small cable system in southeast Wyoming.
A recording engineer would have been cool also, but the closest I got was remastering vinyl to CD for radio stations. (My self-inflicted hearing impairment had a lot to do with that). I still remain proud in my disc jockey heritage, though. My AirForce retiree father was involved in AFRTA (Armed Forces Radio-Television Assoc.) communications back in the 1960's (nowdays I think it's called DVID's?)
http://www.filmon.com/channel/dvids-tv
wow
you did good 
which class of radiotelephone license did you have to get for your engineering gig? are you also an amateur radio operator and if so which class?
14 Jan 2016, 3:47 pm
auntblabby wrote:
Rockymntchris wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I wanted to be a broadcast engineer or at least a recording engineer but life had other plans for me.
I've been a broadcast engineer
in both FM radio (KRRR-FM) and also analogue TV with a small cable system in southeast Wyoming.
A recording engineer would have been cool also, but the closest I got was remastering vinyl to CD for radio stations. (My self-inflicted hearing impairment had a lot to do with that). I still remain proud in my disc jockey heritage, though. My AirForce retiree father was involved in AFRTA (Armed Forces Radio-Television Assoc.) communications back in the 1960's (nowdays I think it's called DVID's?)
http://www.filmon.com/channel/dvids-tv
wow
you did good which class of radiotelephone license did you have to get for your engineering gig? are you also an amateur radio operator and if so which class?The FM is a class C2 licence, so GROL only applied to the "chief" engineer, and also in the mid 1990's, cable TV engineers did not require any specific designations for smaller systems, however things might have changed since TV went digital. I can name several small towns where cable went "bye-bye" due to the transition.
As for "ham" radio, I'm way too introverted to attempt anything like that. I'll stick to DX'ing when I have free time.
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14 Jan 2016, 6:15 pm
BerenLuthien wrote:
i cant figure out to add a photo, if people are interested just look at my profile picture, im a young 19 year old, im fairly fit, i have long blonde hair and am constantly changing between a beard and a goatee. if that interests you then message me and we can talk.
hiya
and welcome to the club 
btw if you wanna add photos just right-click atop a pic that you have of yourself on a photohosting site such as photobucket or imgur, select "properties" then on the properties page go down until you find "image path/URL" and click/drag mouse over that line until it is highlighted all the way to the ".jpg" or whatever format it is, then copy that [ctrl-C] then go back here, type [img ](no space) then paste then type [ /img](no space) then post.
14 Jan 2016, 6:20 pm
ok here i am.
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14 Jan 2016, 6:52 pm
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ok here i am.
dig the beatific vibe 
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19 Jan 2016, 11:44 am
auntblabby wrote:
^^^sure you're not related to
Well, I was bored.
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19 Jan 2016, 3:15 pm
^^^it works
20 Jan 2016, 3:56 am
auntblabby wrote:
how do you DX?
Radio: Multi-band "Realistic" (Radio Shack brand) I purchased at a second hand store five or six years ago.
TV: Nowdays has to be done via internet. Rooftop aerials do little to receive out-of-area channels in the digital era. I know some DX'ers still report miraculous HDTV cross-country "skips", but I bet they have thousands invested in equipment.
I believe the most distant live TV station I can receive regularly 24/7 is channel 31 in Brisbane (QLD), Australia:
http://livestream.com/accounts/1953698/31DigitalLive
My Roku permits me to view it on my big flatscreen TV without tying up the computer.
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20 Jan 2016, 4:12 am
Rockymntchris wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
how do you DX?
Radio: Multi-band "Realistic" (Radio Shack brand) I purchased at a second hand store five or six years ago.
TV: Nowdays has to be done via internet. Rooftop aerials do little to receive out-of-area channels in the digital era. I know some DX'ers still report miraculous HDTV cross-country "skips", but I bet they have thousands invested in equipment.
I believe the most distant live TV station I can receive regularly 24/7 is channel 31 in Brisbane (QLD), Australia:
http://livestream.com/accounts/1953698/31DigitalLive
My Roku permits me to view it on my big flatscreen TV without tying up the computer.
I did further research and found a few wealthy fanatical dx enthusiasts who bought radio station antenna towers on which they mounted phased array antennas, and were able to get lower-channel digital stations [didn't show what quality of dtv reception other than still image screencaps] about 800 miles direct without skip, don't know if it was temperature inversions that were helping them or not. a lot of the screencaps showed evidence of severe drop-outs so I am guessing at that distance that reception will only be intermittent.
