Check Six!

[Ron Wanttaja]

Got a new mini video camera for Christmas, had to build a new mount to fit it on
the Fly Baby:

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/pix/Pipper_burns.wmv

Ron Wanttaja

[Barnyard BOb]

>Got a new mini video camera for Christmas, had to build a new mount to fit it on
>the Fly Baby:
>
>http://www.bowersflybaby.com/pix/Pipper_burns.wmv
>
>Ron Wanttaja
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Can you tighten up that new mount to where the lens takes pictures of
where you are going rather than swinging around bassakwards to where
you have been, Ron? :-)

Barnyard BOb - 1960's Fly Baby driver

[ChuckSlusarczyk]

In article >, Ron Wanttaja says...
>
>Got a new mini video camera for Christmas, had to build a new mount to fit it on
>the Fly Baby:
>
>http://www.bowersflybaby.com/pix/Pipper_burns.wmv
>

Boy he sure snuck, sneaked , er sneakedid up on you good thing he was out of
ammo LOL!! Those new mini cameras are neat my kid put one on a RC model and
flew it around our yard during a party .He hooked it up to a TV and we got real
time video .Amazing the stuff that's out there. Guess it's time for me to join
the 20th Century and get me one of those new 8 track systems :-)

See ya

Chuck (did ya hear about calculators yet ) S

[Ron Wanttaja]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:42:49 -0600, Barnyard BOb > wrote:

>
>>Got a new mini video camera for Christmas, had to build a new mount to fit it on
>>the Fly Baby:
>>
>>http://www.bowersflybaby.com/pix/Pipper_burns.wmv
>>
>>Ron Wanttaja
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
>Can you tighten up that new mount to where the lens takes pictures of
>where you are going rather than swinging around bassakwards to where
>you have been, Ron? :-)

Now, now, Bob.... one can ask only so much for the cheap little tripod socket on
a $70 video camera. It only takes ~2 threads of a 1/4-20 bolt before it bottoms
out; I add safety wire and a tad of hunert-mile-an-hour tape just to be on the
safe side. I make one flight with the camera pointing aft, the next with the
camera facing forward, another with the thing on the tail facing forward, etc.

That's how I did this video, with an earlier, lower-resolution camera:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDOG4E_pXs

Ron Wanttaja

[Ed Sullivan]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:40:58 -0800, Ron Wanttaja
> wrote:

>Got a new mini video camera for Christmas, had to build a new mount to fit it on
>the Fly Baby:
>
>http://www.bowersflybaby.com/pix/Pipper_burns.wmv
>
>Ron Wanttaja

Ron, is that engine sound authentic, sounds more like prolonged
flatulence, haw!

Ed Sullivan

[Andy Asberry[_2_]]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:40:58 -0800, Ron Wanttaja
> wrote:

>Got a new mini video camera for Christmas, had to build a new mount to fit it on
>the Fly Baby:
>
>http://www.bowersflybaby.com/pix/Pipper_burns.wmv
>
>Ron Wanttaja

One of them new Cuisinart props?

--Andy Asberry--
------Texas-----

[Montblack]

"Ron Wanttaja"

Writer
Director
Producer
Starring
Editor
Stunt Flying
Construction
Matt Painting
Best Boy
Key Grip
Catering

> Got a new mini video camera for Christmas, had to build a new mount to fit
> it on the Fly Baby:
>
> http://www.bowersflybaby.com/pix/Pipper_burns.wmv


Hmm? Released right before this Sunday's Academy Awards...

Coincidence? I think not!


Mont-fade-to-black
"So there."

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, said:
>That's how I did this video, with an earlier, lower-resolution camera:
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDOG4E_pXs

That's some weird compression artifact that causes that strange black
stripey stuff in the prop disk.


--
Paul Tomblin > http://blog.xcski.com/
So logically, if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood, and
therefore a witch.

[Ron Wanttaja]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:58:52 +0000 (UTC), (Paul
Tomblin) wrote:

>In a previous article, said:
>>That's how I did this video, with an earlier, lower-resolution camera:
>>
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDOG4E_pXs
>
>That's some weird compression artifact that causes that strange black
>stripey stuff in the prop disk.

Slow frame rate, I think. The camera that took the video on my original movie
is low resolution and only has about 10 frames per second. The new one is
nearly full NTSC resolution with 27 FPS. Same manufacturer, just ~2 years'
improvement in technology (the cameras both sold for about $90.

As Andy noted, even the new camera's sampling rate of the focal plane tends to
show the propeller of the Boredom Fighter as an arc. Certainly not as bad as
the rising/falling ~ of the old camera, but still noticeable.

I just too cheap to spend money for a real video camera, that's all. :-)

Ron Wanttaja

[Barnyard BOb]

>>Can you tighten up that new mount to where the lens takes pictures of
>>where you are going rather than swinging around bassakwards to where
>>you have been, Ron? :-)
>
>Now, now, Bob.... one can ask only so much for the cheap little tripod socket on
>a $70 video camera. It only takes ~2 threads of a 1/4-20 bolt before it bottoms
>out; I add safety wire and a tad of hunert-mile-an-hour tape just to be on the
>safe side. I make one flight with the camera pointing aft, the next with the
>camera facing forward, another with the thing on the tail facing forward, etc.
>
>That's how I did this video, with an earlier, lower-resolution camera:
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDOG4E_pXs
>
>Ron Wanttaja

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WoW, Ron....

YOUTUBE!!!

I knew you'd be famous one day! ;-)

P.S
Does the stirring audio contain a subliminal
nautical message rather than AERO-nautical?

I have this uncontrollable urge to march
down to the sea in a sailing ship.

Might even try my hand at whaling.....


- Barnyard BOb -

[Ron Wanttaja]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:11:25 -0600, Barnyard BOb > wrote:

>>That's how I did this video, with an earlier, lower-resolution camera:
>>
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDOG4E_pXs
>
>YOUTUBE!!!
>
>I knew you'd be famous one day! ;-)

Self-famous, at least. :-)
>
>P.S
>Does the stirring audio contain a subliminal
>nautical message rather than AERO-nautical?
>
>I have this uncontrollable urge to march
>down to the sea in a sailing ship.
>
>Might even try my hand at whaling.....

Bob, Bob, Bob. Have you been to a nickelodeon in the past, oh, eighty years?
The motion pictures are in color now, and the music and the actor's words are
actually heard at the same time.

If you HAD...then you'd know that the music I used on that clip came from an
*airplane* film. It's tied to a scene where a Curtis P-40 Tomahawk...mind you,
a REAL P-40, not a model, not a cartoon, and not even computer-generated the way
the kids get so excited about...is slipping to land on a dirt road, and
subsequently taxis up to a gas station.

If you want to see a Fly Baby video with a nautical soundtrack, this is the one:

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/2006-9-23-Fly-Baby-N500F.wmv

....although it should make you want to attack a Spanish galleon, not a hapless
cetacean.

Ron Wanttaja

[RST Engineering]

Do you get more fuel in Spain with a Spanish galleon than in the USA with
the English galleon?

Jim



> ...although it should make you want to attack a Spanish galleon

[Barnyard BOb]

>
>Bob, Bob, Bob. Have you been to a nickelodeon in the past, oh, eighty years?
>The motion pictures are in color now, and the music and the actor's words are
>actually heard at the same time.

My DVD collection is totally of the great silent days.
Talkies and color are for you young chatty whippersnappers.
Distracts from the plot, ya know!

>If you HAD...then you'd know that the music I used on that clip came from an
>*airplane* film. It's tied to a scene where a Curtis P-40 Tomahawk...mind you,
>a REAL P-40, not a model, not a cartoon, and not even computer-generated the way
>the kids get so excited about...is slipping to land on a dirt road, and
>subsequently taxis up to a gas station.

REALLY?
What movie would that be?

Couldn't be '1941'.
That John Belushi P-40 landed on a paved road and
then taxied to a gas station that was located ON DIRT.
Kinda' like I use to do in my Texass crop dusting days.

>If you want to see a Fly Baby video with a nautical soundtrack, this is the one:
>
>http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/2006-9-23-Fly-Baby-N500F.wmv
>
>...although it should make you want to attack a Spanish galleon,

Hmmm.
Do Spanish galleons hold as much stuff as
Canadian and British Imperial Galleons?

>not a hapless cetacean.
>
>Ron Wanttaja

Humongous whales.... HAPPLESS?!?!?
Tell that to Hemingway, Spencer Tracy and the Old Man in the Sea.


- Barnyard BOb -

Over a half century of powered flight

[Montblack]

("Ron Wanttaja" wrote)
> If you want to see a Fly Baby video with a nautical soundtrack, this is
> the one:

<http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/2006-9-23-Fly-Baby-N500F.wmv>


Music from: ........The Sea Hawk (1940)
Staring: ...............Errol Fly-in(n) as Capt. Thorpe

> ...although it should make you want to attack a Spanish galleon, not a
> hapless cetacean.

Oddly, folk music does that for me .... the attack a whale thing.

http://www.akh.se/lyrics/greenland_whalers.htm
"The Whale" - The Limeliters

<http://www.amazon.com/Through-Childrens-Eyes-Little-Adults/dp/B000001841>
Through Children's Eyes (1962) ...sample songs
(We grew up with this Limeliters album)


Mont-blacklisted

We struck that whale, the line paid out
But she gave a flourish with her tail
The boat capsized and four men were drowned
And we never caught that whale, brave boys
And we never caught that whale

"To lose the boat", our captain said
"it grieves my heart full sore"
But we know the losing of that hundred barrel whale
Well, it grieved him ten times more, brave boys
It grieved him ten times more

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Barnyard BOb > said:
>Humongous whales.... HAPPLESS?!?!?
>Tell that to Hemingway, Spencer Tracy and the Old Man in the Sea.

You've never actually read "The Old Man And The Sea", have you? Because
besides the Old Man, there was a marlin and sharks, but no whales.


--
Paul Tomblin > http://blog.xcski.com/
"Dumbass PowarRanger Voltron is like the original PowarRanger Voltron,
except no one can agree who forms the head, so all you're left with is
five assholes." - siln

[Barnyard BOb]

Paul Tomblin wrote:

>In a previous article, Barnyard BOb > said:
>>Humongous whales.... HAPPLESS?!?!?
>>Tell that to Hemingway, Spencer Tracy and the Old Man in the Sea.
>
>You've never actually read "The Old Man And The Sea", have you?

GEEZ...
Wanna' tell me I have't seen the movie either?

For you, here's what I can do:

Humongous whales.... HAPPLESS?!?
Tell that to Captain Ahab of Moby-Dick fame.

Feel better now, party pooper? :-)


- Barnyard Bob-

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Barnyard BOb > said:
>Paul Tomblin wrote:
>
>>In a previous article, Barnyard BOb > said:
>>>Humongous whales.... HAPPLESS?!?!?
>>>Tell that to Hemingway, Spencer Tracy and the Old Man in the Sea.
>>
>>You've never actually read "The Old Man And The Sea", have you?
>
>GEEZ...
>Wanna' tell me I have't seen the movie either?
>
>For you, here's what I can do:
>
>Humongous whales.... HAPPLESS?!?
>Tell that to Captain Ahab of Moby-Dick fame.
>
>Feel better now, party pooper? :-)

Much better.

This literary moment brought to you by WGBH in Boston and contributions
from viewers like you.

--
Paul Tomblin > http://blog.xcski.com/
USER, n.:
The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot".

[Barnyard BOb]

(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

>In a previous article, Barnyard BOb > said:
>>Paul Tomblin wrote:
>>
>>>In a previous article, Barnyard BOb > said:
>>>>Humongous whales.... HAPPLESS?!?!?
>>>>Tell that to Hemingway, Spencer Tracy and the Old Man in the Sea.
>>>
>>>You've never actually read "The Old Man And The Sea", have you?
>>
>>GEEZ...
>>Wanna' tell me I have't seen the movie either?
>>
>>For you, here's what I can do:
>>
>>Humongous whales.... HAPPLESS?!?
>>Tell that to Captain Ahab of Moby-Dick fame.
>>
>>Feel better now, party pooper? :-)
>
>Much better.
>
>This literary moment brought to you by WGBH in Boston and contributions
>from viewers like you.
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Heh, heh.

Got a another name for you, too, Paul.

TROUBLEMAKER

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Barnyard BOb > said:
> (Paul Tomblin) wrote:
>>>Feel better now, party pooper? :-)
>>Much better.
>>
>>This literary moment brought to you by WGBH in Boston and contributions
>>from viewers like you.
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
>Heh, heh.
>
>Got a another name for you, too, Paul.
>
> TROUBLEMAKER

That's about the nicest name anybody in rec.aviation has ever given me.
Second only to John Osterhout threatening to reveal the fact that in
person I'm not all that bad a guy.


--
Paul Tomblin > http://blog.xcski.com/
O Canada, we stand ready to sit down and discuss our problems
in a civilized fashion for thee.
-- wednesday

[Barnyard BOb]

(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

>>Heh, heh.
>>
>>Got a another name for you, too, Paul.
>>
>> TROUBLEMAKER
>
>That's about the nicest name anybody in rec.aviation has ever given me.
>Second only to John Osterhout threatening to reveal the fact that in
>person I'm not all that bad a guy.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Oi Vey...
On any given day, it's damn near mpossible to 'one up' Oyster!
I'm proud to come in evan a distant second to a man of his stature!



NOT! :-)


- Barnyard BOb -

[Rich Ahrens]

Barnyard BOb wrote:
>> Bob, Bob, Bob. Have you been to a nickelodeon in the past, oh, eighty years?
>> The motion pictures are in color now, and the music and the actor's words are
>> actually heard at the same time.
>
> My DVD collection is totally of the great silent days.
> Talkies and color are for you young chatty whippersnappers.
> Distracts from the plot, ya know!

DVDs? That's at least two or three generations of technology too recent
for you, Unk.

[Barnyard BOb]

Rich Ahrens wrote:

>> My DVD collection is totally of the great silent days.
>> Talkies and color are for you young chatty whippersnappers.
>> Distracts from the plot, ya know!
>
>DVDs? That's at least two or three generations of technology too recent
>for you, Unk.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Not a problem, Rich.
The kids and grand kids gladly handle these chores for me.

P.S.
No way will I let them near my Victrola/Gramaphone collection.


- Barnyard BOb -


..

[Morgans[_2_]]

"Barnyard BOb" wrote

> Not a problem, Rich.
> The kids and grand kids gladly handle these chores for me.
>
> P.S.
> No way will I let them near my Victrola/Gramaphone collection.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think I am starting to get an insight, as to why you are so opposed to new
things, like auto engines in airplanes.

The way I see it, you are so stuck in the past with old technology, that you
think recordings should be on a cylinder, instead of a disk. (of some type)
<g>

Wow.

Thanks for helping me clear this up, just a little. {;-)>
--
Jim in NC

[Ron Wanttaja]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:56:46 -0600, Barnyard BOb > wrote:

>Couldn't be '1941'.
>That John Belushi P-40 landed on a paved road and
>then taxied to a gas station that was located ON DIRT.

But it was a *dusty* paved road. :-)

>>not a hapless cetacean.
>>
>Humongous whales.... HAPPLESS?!?!?
>Tell that to Hemingway, Spencer Tracy and the Old Man in the Sea.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

"Hapless: Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy"

http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/hapless

Ron Wanttaja

[Ron Wanttaja]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:33:58 -0600, Rich Ahrens > wrote:

>Barnyard BOb wrote:
>>> Bob, Bob, Bob. Have you been to a nickelodeon in the past, oh, eighty years?
>>> The motion pictures are in color now, and the music and the actor's words are
>>> actually heard at the same time.
>>
>> My DVD collection is totally of the great silent days.
>> Talkies and color are for you young chatty whippersnappers.
>> Distracts from the plot, ya know!
>
>DVDs? That's at least two or three generations of technology too recent
>for you, Unk.

When BOb says "DVD", he's referring to "Dichroic Viewmaster Disks."

Ron Wanttaja

[Barnyard BOb]

..
>
>"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
>
>"Hapless: Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy"
>
>http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/hapless
>
>Ron Wanttaja
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Sho 'nuff.

Me..... AND whales.

Hapless.


- Barnyard BOb -

[Barnyard BOb]

"Morgans" wrote:

>
>"Barnyard BOb" wrote
>
>> Not a problem, Rich.
>> The kids and grand kids gladly handle these chores for me.
>>
>> P.S.
>> No way will I let them near my Victrola/Gramaphone collection.
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>I think I am starting to get an insight, as to why you are so opposed to new
>things, like auto engines in airplanes.

As usual, Morgans...
Yer lights are on, but nobody's home.

The Pietenpol and Model A engine
were a match made in heaven.

Wish you were there. <g>


>Thanks for helping me clear this up, just a little. {;-)>

You are always welcome...
just not in this world.

P.S.
What's with the goatee? ===> {;-)>
If it's respect yer after...
Hahahaahahhaaaa.


Barnyard - nail 'em before sunrise - BOb

[Dean A. Scott]

>> That's some weird compression artifact...

> Slow frame rate, I think.

Neither. The "shutter" speed actually looks to be around an effective 1/5000 of a second.
Normal video is 1/60. The distortion of the prop is not due to compression, but due to
how the image is scanned off of the sensor chip... sequentially, row by row, bottom to
top. That is, if it takes 1/5000 of a second to read each row of pixels, then multiply
that by 240 to 480 rows and you get 10 to 20 full frame images every second.

The position of the prop changes by a couple degrees by the time the next row of pixels up
on the chip is read by the camera's firmware. The result is the shearing, bending, and
floating pieces of the blades when the whole image is assembled. Very disconcerting since
we are all too accustomed to our human vision having analog motion blur. This visual
distortion is called Temporal Aliasing (digitally sampled 'stair-stepping' of time).

So Ron. What I'd like to see is how you mounted the camera. There was virtually no high
frequency vibration in that mount... very rigid. Impressive. Plus being that these
cheapo digital cameras are tapeless (record directly to flash memory as an mpeg 4 file),
there's no breakup of the picture due to tape-to-record head gaps from a vibrating tape.
Going to a better, high-end camcorder (even the best mini-DV), your picture is no doubt
going to go in the toilet of digital dropout and break up unless you use an external video
recorder appropriately vibration/shock mounted in the cockpit to prevent tape vibration
that separates it from the rotating head drum.

Dean Scott

--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

[ChuckSlusarczyk]

In article >, Barnyard BOb says...
>
>
> Rich Ahrens wrote:
>
>>> My DVD collection is totally of the great silent days.
>>> Talkies and color are for you young chatty whippersnappers.
>>> Distracts from the plot, ya know!
>>
>>DVDs? That's at least two or three generations of technology too recent
>>for you, Unk.
>
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
>Not a problem, Rich.
>The kids and grand kids gladly handle these chores for me.
>
>P.S.
>No way will I let them near my Victrola/Gramaphone collection.


Hey UNK
My #3 Son who retired from the USAF a few years back is an old radio and
victrola buff.He's got a couple of neat victrilas and even has one that plays a
drum style recording. He repairs old car radios for car builders who want their
49 Plymouth radio playing like new. He gave me a 1949 Crosby radio that I play
my radio classics thru and there's something about the smooth sound that tube
radios give that's hard to beat. Nothing better then Burns and Allen or Jack
Benny on a cold winter night.The lights are low and the Shadow comes on or
Suspense spooks ya. The new TV shows pale compare to them oldies us oldies like
:-)

OOps time for the Great Gildersleeve brought to us by Prell...The Shadow had a
story about an airplane caper last week so this post fits LOL!!

See ya

Nefoo Chuck

Eat any Paczki today? I had a nice poppy seed and a hot cup of coffee for ash
wed breakfast...ahhh

[Ron Wanttaja]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:03:46 -0500, "Dean A. Scott" >
wrote:

>
>>> That's some weird compression artifact...
>
>> Slow frame rate, I think.
>
>Neither. The "shutter" speed actually looks to be around an effective 1/5000 of a second.
> Normal video is 1/60. The distortion of the prop is not due to compression, but due to
>how the image is scanned off of the sensor chip... sequentially, row by row, bottom to
>top. That is, if it takes 1/5000 of a second to read each row of pixels, then multiply
>that by 240 to 480 rows and you get 10 to 20 full frame images every second.

That makes sense. IIRC, there is a type of still-camera shutter that works
similarly, and you sometimes see the same kind of "arcing" of moving propellers.

>So Ron. What I'd like to see is how you mounted the camera. There was virtually no high
>frequency vibration in that mount... very rigid. Impressive.

Beginner's luck. The cameras were basically mounted on an extension of a big
aluminum angle, which was clamped to the axle by hose clamps. I put piece of
inner-tube rubber under the angle/clamps to protect the paint of the axle.
Details, including photos, on:

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/pix/video.html

The one problem I have is a low-frequency shake of the image. If you watch the
ground in the distance, you can see it's shaking up and down at about a 1/2 to 1
Hz rate. Both cameras do it, the newer camera has electronic stabilization, and
it didn't seem to help.

My guess is that it's that bit of rubber that's protecting the axle...I think
the mount is "bouncing" a bit. The effect is not really visible with the old
camera when it was mounted atop the tail, where there isn't any rubber involved.

Gonna try to protect the axle with nylon or wood, instead.

Ron Wanttaja

[Morgans[_2_]]

"Ron Wanttaja" > wrote

> My guess is that it's that bit of rubber that's protecting the axle...I
> think
> the mount is "bouncing" a bit. The effect is not really visible with the
> old
> camera when it was mounted atop the tail, where there isn't any rubber
> involved.
>
> Gonna try to protect the axle with nylon or wood, instead.

My guess is that it is not the rubber, but instead, the axle flexing.

Try mounting the camera on the axle over far to one side, right next to the
axle support, and see if you still get the "bounce." Use the rubber and
everything else just the same, for a control.
--
Jim in NC

[Morgans[_2_]]

"Barnyard BOb" > wrote

> You are always welcome...
> just not in this world.






That was my response, in the silent film version.

> P.S.
> What's with the goatee? ===> {;-)>
> If it's respect yer after...
> Hahahaahahhaaaa.

That wasn't a goatee, but a pointed chin, made so from laughing so hard! ;-)
--
Jim in NC

[Morgans[_2_]]

"ChuckSlusarczyk" <> wrote

> He gave me a 1949 Crosby radio that I play
> my radio classics thru and there's something about the smooth sound that
> tube
> radios give that's hard to beat. Nothing better then Burns and Allen or
> Jack
> Benny on a cold winter night.The lights are low and the Shadow comes on or
> Suspense spooks ya. The new TV shows pale compare to them oldies us oldies
> like

My son is a bit of a high-tec audio video buff, with majors in these areas.
He tells me that some high end systems are starting to include a couple
tubes to get rid of the "tinny-ness" of all digital sound recordings and
playbacks.
--
Jim in NC

[Rich Ahrens]

Barnyard BOb wrote:
> Rich Ahrens wrote:
>
>>> My DVD collection is totally of the great silent days.
>>> Talkies and color are for you young chatty whippersnappers.
>>> Distracts from the plot, ya know!
>> DVDs? That's at least two or three generations of technology too recent
>> for you, Unk.
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
> Not a problem, Rich.
> The kids and grand kids gladly handle these chores for me.
>
> P.S.
> No way will I let them near my Victrola/Gramaphone collection.

Yeah, that might **** Gramma right off...

[Rich Ahrens]

Ron Wanttaja wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:33:58 -0600, Rich Ahrens > wrote:
>
>> Barnyard BOb wrote:
>>>> Bob, Bob, Bob. Have you been to a nickelodeon in the past, oh, eighty years?
>>>> The motion pictures are in color now, and the music and the actor's words are
>>>> actually heard at the same time.
>>> My DVD collection is totally of the great silent days.
>>> Talkies and color are for you young chatty whippersnappers.
>>> Distracts from the plot, ya know!
>> DVDs? That's at least two or three generations of technology too recent
>> for you, Unk.
>
> When BOb says "DVD", he's referring to "Dichroic Viewmaster Disks."

Ah, all is clear now!

[Ron Wanttaja]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:07:04 -0600, Rich Ahrens > wrote:

>Barnyard BOb wrote:
>> Rich Ahrens wrote:
>>
>>>> My DVD collection is totally of the great silent days.
>>>> Talkies and color are for you young chatty whippersnappers.
>>>> Distracts from the plot, ya know!
>>> DVDs? That's at least two or three generations of technology too recent
>>> for you, Unk.
>>
>> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>>
>> Not a problem, Rich.
>> The kids and grand kids gladly handle these chores for me.
>>
>> P.S.
>> No way will I let them near my Victrola/Gramaphone collection.
>
>Yeah, that might **** Gramma right off...

If y'all ever make it to Bellingham, Washington, there's the American Museum of
Radio and Electricity. Basically, two ex-Microsofties who liked to collect old
electronics set up a museum. Absolutely great place if you like old technology
(and who doesn't :-).

http://www.amre.us/site/index.html

Anyway, on one of my visits, they actually cranked up a Victrola for us.

I was floored. Not only was that beast LOUD, the quality was surprising good,
too. Oh, of course, not as good as something from the '50s or so, of course.
But for NO electronics, just a wiggling needle and a really, REALLY big horn, it
did pretty well.

Thought I saw BOb's initials scratched on the bottom... :-)

Ron Wanttaja

[Ron Wanttaja]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:40:58 -0800, Ron Wanttaja >
wrote:

>Got a new mini video camera for Christmas, had to build a new mount to fit it on
>the Fly Baby:

You can see it just to the left of the centerpoint of my axle...

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/pix/BF_POV.wmv

Check out the lennies on Mt. Rainier!

Ron Wanttaja

[ChuckSlusarczyk]

In article >, Morgans says...
>
>
>"ChuckSlusarczyk" <> wrote
>
>> He gave me a 1949 Crosby radio that I play
>> my radio classics thru and there's something about the smooth sound that
>> tube
>> radios give that's hard to beat. Nothing better then Burns and Allen or
>> Jack
>> Benny on a cold winter night.The lights are low and the Shadow comes on or
>> Suspense spooks ya. The new TV shows pale compare to them oldies us oldies
>> like
>
>My son is a bit of a high-tec audio video buff, with majors in these areas.
>He tells me that some high end systems are starting to include a couple
>tubes to get rid of the "tinny-ness" of all digital sound recordings and
>playbacks.

Interesting ,I never noticed it until I had my satellite radio on playing thru 3
radios in the house.Two were newer solid state ones and the other was my 1949
Crosby and I could really hear the difference. So I had my kid send me another
old radio for the bedroom. How soon we forgot about having to wait for the radio
to "warm" up :-)

Got to go, the Great Gildersleeve is on <grin>

See ya

Chuck S

[Rich Ahrens]

Ron Wanttaja wrote:
> If y'all ever make it to Bellingham, Washington, there's the American Museum of
> Radio and Electricity. Basically, two ex-Microsofties who liked to collect old
> electronics set up a museum. Absolutely great place if you like old technology
> (and who doesn't :-).
>
> http://www.amre.us/site/index.html

And if you ever make it to the Twin Cities, check out the Pavek Museum
of Broadcasting:

http://www.pavekmuseum.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavek_Museum_of_Broadcasting

> Anyway, on one of my visits, they actually cranked up a Victrola for us.
>
> I was floored. Not only was that beast LOUD, the quality was surprising good,
> too. Oh, of course, not as good as something from the '50s or so, of course.
> But for NO electronics, just a wiggling needle and a really, REALLY big horn, it
> did pretty well.
>
> Thought I saw BOb's initials scratched on the bottom... :-)

With the Bowie knife he bought directly from James Black, no doubt.