mic'em wrote:

Deep Tracks, what I'm refering to is a small tab that allows the shifter to be put into nuetral without the engine running, that allows the vehicle to be winched or just moved at all . Not all vehicles have the tab in plain view. Some have to have the console removed and then there is a mechanism located under or beside the shift linkages. Also there are vehicles that don't have a release at all , meaning I had to crawl under the vehicles and disconnect the linkage at the transmission, or just hook and drag which I hated doing due to the possibility of damaging the customer's vehicle. All vehicles now with electronic shifters and electric E brakes have no way to put the vehicles into neutral with out power from the battery and the fob to turn the power on. Most tow operators that I am aware of just drag the vehicles onto the bed, or in the case of a wrecker unit, ,use the small dolly wheels to tow. I always strived during my 22 years in towing to treat a customers vehicle like it was my own. I don't think that sentiment exits much anymore with the new generation. This link shows the tab for a Kia Sorento... https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=2016+kia+sorento+nuetral+release+button&mid=C103BB73A1A26822827AC103BB73A1A26822827A&FORM=VIRE

Thank you, Mic;em, for your description and provided video. I would never have guessed that you can't now always place a vehicle into neutral.

RadioActive wrote:

I have my doubts, but back in the days of VCRs and videotape, this gadget was offered to cut out commercials from recorded TV shows. The fact this didn't become a big deal seems proof to me that it couldn't possibly have worked as advertised. (I also have doubts about an offer that tells you to write "Mr. Shelton" - in quotes, no less - for more information.)

It lists a Washington state address, but a closer look at the bottom of the page shows it was actually made in Burnaby, B.C. 

How would this even have worked? 

From 1980:

Back 'in-the-day' when adding wooden (or brown coloured plastic) side panels to a device, VCR/Stereo Receiver/etcetera, would add to the 'prestigiousness' of a device and would cost more - hence the addition of "W"..
 

Whatever became of Join TV ? Not much is the answer.

On a not too dissimilar note, does anyone know what Slick Tom's gotten up to of late?

A Google searh result -  https://us.moodmedia.com/ga/muzak-background-music/

"On my desk in Florida is my Grundig Satellite 750. It stays in Florida all year and the hot, humid climate is taking its toll. Last year, when we were there, I noticed the volume control was getting a little scratchy."

Open it up to expose the expose its volume control and look to see if you can spray just a 1-second spritz of WD-40 into its wiper/resistive surface area. Work-it back and forth a few times, and voila! 

As a budding technician when I was still just a kid, I got the idea to spray WD-40 into the noisy volume controls of  old B&W TVs and also directly into their turret-type tuners. It worked a treat as well on the exposed surfaces of older AM radio variable capacitors. It was less expensive and more readily available than purposely made cleaner.

If anything were still "repairable" like they were in the old days I know I would still be using it.

 

Check out this link for info related to LEDs and how they are made to work. LEDs are NOT in a constant ON state. Basically it's Google search results but you get the idea.

The effective strength of the interfering signal being produced by the LED driver circuitry may be causing the AGC in your radio's circuitry to shutdown, or minimize, as it may be fooling your radio into believing the signal is local and doesn't require additional amplification. Which - it is, it's just not the desired signal.

Here it is on Global's site.

97.7 MAX-FM "Wasaga Beach" has no presence in the "Beach" itself and hasn't for at least seven years, so the logo shown is very much dated.

At least their website now lists Collingwood first on their coverage list. 

When I last listened, those many years ago, they were doing a kind of simulcasting thing with their Orillia counterpart effectively covering a larger area with the exact same content. So if you were in located between the two areas of signal coverage (which was/is fairly large for each) you really had no alternative to the type of music you wanted but to listen to the one with the better reception - where-ever it was you were.

https://www.therecord.com/business/citytvs-cityline-cancelled-after-40-year-run-tracy-moore-moves-to-breakfast-television/article_5ad03bb0-bf49-548d-a033-aa11bac11e3d.html?li_source=base&li_medium=business

I "tuned in" to hear what sounded like a $10.00 cassette player that was running with a stretched belt drive, and was so bad even stopped twice within the same track perhaps because the tape was rewound too tightly.

Saying that, whoever it is that claims any of what I heard as being soothing to one's pets' ears, let alone a human's, is delusional.

You really have to hear it for yourself - my words don't do justice to describe had bad it is.

Well....they're actually "on air", so-to-speak.

Their APP is available on both ROKU and in the Android Playstore - although they are not currently saying that they're now available. Their website still says "Coming soon".

There isn't a single program I recognize, so at this time, at least, they are not just running out of date repeats. None of what I saw enticed me to look any further so IMHO that needs to change sooner rather than later.

So much for "Canada's Premiere F.A.S.T. Channel" network.

Total no-show in '23. I never once received an email of their progress.

They do claim now that they're launching in Jan '24.

https://www.jointvnetwork.com/faq/ 

Young Man Blues - the Who "Live at Leeds"
Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin I
Crossroads - Cream "Wheels of Fire"
Big Fat Money - Chickenfoot
Show Me How to Live - Audioslave
Funk #49 - James Gang
Working Man - Rush
Rock and Roll Machine - Triumph
 

My dad took me downtown to the downtown Eatons store late that summer of '66 to see the display of colour TVs they were selling, and CFTO provided the source of the signal fed to the display models. The shows themselves were what Channel 9 was going to air as part of their new fall lineup, including Star Trek showing, highlights from what would end up being the series third episode -" Where No Man Has Gone Before". That episode being chosen by CFTO, I have to think now, because its title may have been thought to intrigue and entice new colour TV buyers into actually spending their money.

Our family already owned a colour TV - an Electrohome. My dad liked to buy 'Canadian'. We were already watching Bonanza and Hogan's Heroes in colour, and on rare occasion, if they had not already gone home, my dad's friends would stay and watch as well.