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Friday, May 30, 2014

Technology Marches Forward!

It does leave wounded behind though.

See this:


AT&T home cell thingy. It does not have the strength to ring the bells on this, nor deal with pulse dial.





































Nor this:

Last I heard was POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) had to present ringing voltage of at least 120 VAC over -48VDC. 


Since AT&T at&t is trying to kill POTS, it makes sense. 

So now, I need to figure out how to detect the ringing from the thingy and boost it to run the ringers on these phones. 

Sigh....

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Incoming and out going!

This arrived today. A Zenith AM/FM radio. 



 I have done little with it so far. It does play however!


This is leaving! 



Yes the less than popular Model 670A among purists. I get that, the arugument is well made and sound lamenting the cost cutting measures with Winchester then. It's not a Model 70.  However...

This rifle is leaving to go back to its owner. He has had it since it was new. I don't care what the Interwebz pundits say. This rifle is important to me. Not a bad Weaver optic on it either. 




Need some competition?

Well try this postal match being hosted by my friend Brigid and Partner this year.

























Looks like fun and I hope to give it a try! Thanks to the host and hostess this year! 

Monday, May 26, 2014

Remember

My friends around the Blogs have remembered the true meaning of today. Of note to me is one post by my good friend with pictures of hallowed ground. Go look. I'll be here when you get back.

Freedom won with blood. We must never forget the price we as a nation have paid.

























Yes the tools change, but the people that use them, those willing to answer the call and give all I am truly indebted to. Thank You. 

Never forget. 





Sunday, May 25, 2014

Hmm.. I AM holding it wrong!

Operators operating operationally it seems =)  With "Ordnance Delivery Devices" no less.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Old school audio!

Throw another fuel rod in the pile or throw some more coal in the boiler. I fired this up tonight. 


It is a Denon PMA-1080R Amplifier. A very old school amp and one of the last acutually made in Japan before Denon "whored the market." So what is it doing? Running these:


  






















The extremely inefficient sub woofers, the Pyramid 8W's. 

Meh, no matter. I will bow to the inevitable soon enough with a powered sub, but dang. I love these 30 year old things. The neighbors, well maybe not so much!

 

Hmm.. You can spend money on a camera but...

It seems I can take "selfies" to a new level. Put the WiFi thingy in the camera and then fire up the iThingy. Remote control! Woo-hoo! I'm still left with less than entertaining subject matter though. 

Here is the screen shot of the iThingy app.






 

















And the final result!


Sigh.. I need to update my photo editing software to deal with the RAW format. This is JPEG Fine format and compressed for the Web. 

So I DID NOT break the camera though! I have that going for me =) 

 

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