This is nice. Winwood singing Can't Find My Way Home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoSn2Y-b6wI
YouTube is amazing.
By the way, "You are I, and I am you."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoSn2Y-b6wI
YouTube is amazing.
By the way, "You are I, and I am you."
Actually the jamming carrier was AM and it really confused the AGC in a TV or VCR.
Let's just say that I'm curious and like to figure out how things work......then the engineer in me finds a better way. All of this information does not apply in the US any more since TV and cable is all digital now....
Theft of services has been illegal ever since the old color boxes were used to make free long distance calls. Old timers may remember the significance of 2600Hz, and the magazine of the same name. About 10 years ago a strong US law went into effect that made designing, building, writing code, or possession of 5 or more "devices" that "could possibly be used to steal service" a FELONY. Unfortunately the wording of the law is vague, and abuses have occurred. Before this law went into effect, some states had weak laws, but "black boxes" and "blue cards" were openly sold on Ebay, and in the classified section of major magazines like Popular Science.
In the early days premium services were protected by passive means. There were means to prevent premium channels from entering the house, or interference that could be removed with a simple notch filter (5 parts). There was a system that separated the picture and sound carriers, and their box put them back together.
When we finally got cable there were 3 tiers of service. The basic tier was on the frequencies below about 220 MHz. The second tier went to about 450 MHz, and the top tier went to 600 MHz or so. If you paid for basic, they installed a low pass filter outside the house in a locked box to remove the higher channels. AT&T bought out that system, and began offering "digital phone service" It was cheap, but didn't always work. We got it for a good reason. Connect your TV to the phone cable and all of the channels flowed freely.
Next came simple active systems. One popular system superimposed a 15KHz sine wave on the video and audio carriers using AM modulation. The phasing was such that the sync pulses would wind up lost. The sound was not affected since it is FM and the added AM did not affect it. You needed to recover the sine wave from the sound, invert it, and sum it with the video to cure the problems. This system was also used on UHF pay TV channels.
There were several systems that suppressed the sync, and, or, inverted the video. Multiple levels of suppressed sync were used, and changed at random. The codes as to what was being done were hidden somewhere inside the picture, outside the field of view, usually in the VBI. A PIC chip and some simple RF hardware could fix it all.
The active systems grew more and more sophisticated until they became much more pirate resistant. Some systems used a dedicated RF channel to control the descrambler and changed modes often. There were a few black boxes that tried to imitate this control channel, but the cable operator could just push a button that changed codes, rendering these boxes useless.
There was at least one rather unique black box out there that used a PIC chip and some CMOS switches to simply remove all then sync signals sent by the cable system, and switch in new sync that was created entirely in the PIC chip.
Co-rect. The high (pun intended) ly detailed cuts are almost microscopically rendered, and the ambient pieces are a cloud with which to rest your soul within.
What with the high-er 😀 THC content of today's herb, the feelings enjoyed in the 70's are greatly improved over that old Mexican dirt weed.
You like modern weed with today's sounds? Try concentrate, aka dabs, aka oil.
😀
Now go AUM....
Tonite tonite tonite I shall start my mini holiday with an eclectic mix of Gong, Genesis, Yes some modern music... washed down with some nice cider and possibly a bit of herbal remedy to bring it all together... I wont be reporting back cos I wont be bothered man.... just get the munchies.
Happy holidays😀
I love these sessions cos the kids get on my case like a lot of old ladies, music to loud... Cans everywhere... etc.
Now go AUM....
Tonite tonite tonite I shall start my mini holiday with an eclectic mix of Gong, Genesis, Yes some modern music... washed down with some nice cider and possibly a bit of herbal remedy to bring it all together... I wont be reporting back cos I wont be bothered man.... just get the munchies.
Happy holidays😀
I love these sessions cos the kids get on my case like a lot of old ladies, music to loud... Cans everywhere... etc.
Bloody Germans again. First they declare war on teeth and 80 years later on everything else.;-)
Is it 'Belie-ville' or 'Belief-ville'?
A subtle yet profound difference although the name may well have completely different origins.
Is it 'Belie-ville' or 'Belief-ville'?
A subtle yet profound difference although the name may well have completely different origins.
Yeah, I see now that it is a double 'L' rather than a 'li'.
Should wear my glasses or smoke less.
Should wear my glasses or smoke less.
You never know, though- it's downstate, and people there have all kinds of pronunciation quirks.
DD, If you lived in Ohio or West Va, you'd be hearing grammatical constructions like, "The car needs warshed."
People from Canada's maritime provinces do that. "Accrost" or "Accrossed". I had a girlfriend from New Brunswick who said that all the time. A bit annoying, but her other qualities made up for it. 🙂
Haha, yeah. I'm a huge Trailer Park Boys fan, Mike Smith's character Bubbles has that strong maritime accent, it's an extreme version of the English we spoke while I was growing up in Montreal.
And just mentioning Trailer Park Boys puts the conversation straight back to weed and music....well, weed and Rush at least, lmao.
Sounds like a great holiday! Enjoy!
Any of the "modern music" worth a listen by others that share the enjoyment of the previously mentioned bands? By the way, if y'all aren't aware of it, progArchives is an excellent resource. Check it out if you are so inclined!
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