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Old 17th Jun 2022, 4:08 pm   #41
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https://www.klassikradio.de/

Hits the spot just at this moment.
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Old 17th Jun 2022, 6:26 pm   #42
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14.060MHz today.

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Quite a bit of local activity today, Listening on the venerable Frog7.
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An IC7700 behemoth.

I don't have an FRG-7 but I do have Racal's equivalent, the RA1217!

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Old 17th Jun 2022, 9:36 pm   #44
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14.060MHz today.

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Quite a bit of local activity today, Listening on the venerable Frog7.
Frog7..... The Russian Missile launcher?
Amma googling the things listed here and have a new entry for a shortwave radio on my Christmas list.

By the way, has anybody heard of Moondog?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSimbyS_YlA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM-l...channel=FIDENA

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Frog7 is the affectionate name for the Yaesu-Musen FRG-7.

A solid state HF receiver using the Wadley triple-mix frequency stabilisation and down-converter scheme. The design looks a bit cheerful, but they work better than you'd expect once you know the foibles of driving one. Essentially its a cut down and transistorised RA17 at an affordable price for shortwave listeners.

Racal did their own transistorised RA17 (well more RA117) in the shape of the RA217 and it's rack width sibling the RA1217 (quite a looker and proper SSB filters!) ~These were a bit easily overloaded on the front end.

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Old 18th Jun 2022, 8:21 pm   #46
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A solid state HF receiver using the Wadley triple-mix frequency stabilisation and down-converter scheme.

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Is that the one with the quantum stabilized dilithium intermix chamber running at 1.21 Jiggawatts?
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Is that the one with the quantum stabilized dilithium intermix chamber running at 1.21 Jiggawatts?
Um, now you come to mention it, no.

The Wadley scheme was first used in the Racal RA17 as that company's first own product. Their whole business critically depended on making it work What became of them? they split up. One part became a part of Thales, the other part is called Vodaphone.

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Old 19th Jun 2022, 7:44 am   #48
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Is that the one with the quantum stabilized dilithium intermix chamber running at 1.21 Jiggawatts?
Um, now you come to mention it, no.

The Wadley scheme was first used in the Racal RA17 as that company's first own product. Their whole business critically depended on making it work What became of them? they split up. One part became a part of Thales, the other part is called Vodaphone.

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I´ve had to google everything, but now I know what a Wadley loop is and it sounds to me like the basic principle of a AOM or acoustic optical modulator for separating a laser frequency into first order, second order and mainbeam and one for the sump. Used in CTP devices to cancel ramp up and ramp down effects.

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I am sure it is down to the newness but I have been listening to Absolute radio quite a bit more, this on my home brew 2 Valve radio as i try to improve it and fiddle with the aerial and reaction cap, bit of fun. I am sure novelty will wear off soon.

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Right now, I'm listening to Uriah Heep's 'Salisbury' CD and am feeling the 70's rock vibe
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I´ve had to google everything, but now I know what a Wadley loop is and it sounds to me like the basic principle of a AOM or acoustic optical modulator for separating a laser frequency into first order, second order and mainbeam and one for the sump. Used in CTP devices to cancel ramp up and ramp down effects.
Mr. Wadley was a rather-prolific inventer of marketable-things-that-involved-phase-coherence; he invented the "Tellurometer" which helped geological surveyers to get devastating locational-accuracy between points up to 100Km apart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurometer

The South-African built Barlow-Wadley SCR30 radios [which included a transistorised version of his drift-cancelling loop] were interesting, but sadly compromised because anti-apartheid sanctions starved the factory of the first-grade semiconductors needed.
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Some 80's Italo Disco on my newly restored generic 'Binatone Power Compo' radio recorder!
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So today I have been re-reading all the guff on the Playmaster units in other threads.
I dont often study with noise, er I mean music playing, BUT today is freezing cold ( for us ) and the wind is foul and blowing at least 20 knots.
SOO its 1972 Australian prssing of " Below the Salt ", Steeleye Span.
YES its on my old 401 with my amp that hums when it forgets lyrics.

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p.s. It still sounds wonderful!!!.
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Old 29th Jun 2022, 7:09 pm   #54
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Some 80's Italo Disco on my newly restored generic 'Binatone Power Compo' radio recorder!
Love it! Italo-Disco, and its sibling Space-disco [think 'Magic Fly' by Space, and "Automatic Lover" by Dee D. Jackson] is one of my favourite genres.

Inspired, I'm now listening to Fake's "Another Brick" from the early-80s,

https://youtu.be/uqOvODp80t0

and will follow this up with a blast of Eurobeat [as featured extensively in the Japanese 'Initial-D' anime series from a couple of decades ago]


The great thing about the Internet is how it lets us switch seamlesly between an entire spectrum of musical genres.
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Right now, listening to Amorphis, their album Skyforger, on a Sony FH-215R which I have recently purchased and bought back to life. Before that it was Within Temptation, and their album The Howling. I'm playing them into it using an old 2nd generation iPod Touch, which hasn't been charged up for ages, I'm keeping an eye on it, as I don't trust old lithium ion cells! So far it hasn't gone pop though...

last night I had Deep Purple, Marmozets, Lacuna coil and Queen, all on cassette, amazing how a decent deck can sound. The night before that I had Insomnium and their album Shadows of the dying sun on CD, all played on the Sony again, I like soak testing things

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On this morning's dog-walk I listened to Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Serenade in A Minor", streamed to my phone from a friend's server in Alabama.

Bluetooth-earbuds are really nifty for this sort of thing - no wires to get snagged in the undergrowth!

Playing right now: Benjamin Britten's "Four Sea Interludes", again streamed, but this time via ADSL to my little Gigabyte "BRIX" media-server and playing through a Teleton tuner/amplifier acquired from a fellow forum-member.
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What am I currebtly listening-to: well, in the last few days I've discovered a whole genre of 21st-century reimaginings of the sorts of stuff Tangerine Dream etc. were doing back in the late-70s usiung sequencers and synthesizers.

Today I had to do an 05:00 dawn-time journey to Bristol Airport to return the couple of dogs I've been minding while their people had to make a trip to an overseas funeral. As my down-the-M4-as-the-sun-rose playlist I had Detlef Keller's "Face Three"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrHMW8BROCI

and "The Cube" by Kubusschnitt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf-puRqSHKQ

both of which really bring back memories of old sequencer/synth stuff I loved from the 70s.

That's the great thing about 21st-century systems: they can deliver what-you-want when-you-want, and also introduce you to stuff you'd otherwise never have come to know existed.

And the best thing about modern cars is that I can peer my phone and so enjoy the factory-fit Meridian Audio 690-Watt audio system!
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I like Tangerine Dream, sadly Fröse died in 2015 but his music lives on.
if you like German electronic rock try Amon Düül II, a bit weird and takes some getting used to but they were really progressive for their time.
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Sounds like music to trip out to!

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Currently listening to Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home album.

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