You should know. Remember the accident?

I can multitask. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Balti told me that.

Did you want me to try?

Ooh, lookie. He edited his first post.

Why do some people do this? He's been on-line several times since Rocky asked for a script. He could have posted quick that he'll get us a script, or to say never mind, or whatever. Instead he just leaves it hanging as FUD. Dogway and ChaosKing over at Doom9 both couldn't duplicate it and he hasn't ...

Curl, how do you know if you're alpha?

I studied the spec in the bathtub today and think I understand it. So tomorrow I'll write the search code. And yes, I did wash behind my ears.

You're almost as good at finding and reporting bugs as I am at fixing radios. Thanks for keeping Rocky busy so he has no time to think up things for me to do.

Guys, I got a good start on the random access using the EP_map. You know what, it's not so easy as I thought, but don't worry, I'm on it. I have parsed everything needed but parsing is only part of it. Once you have the map for the clip, sequence, and PID of interest, you have to search it and inter...

OMG, guys! You're not going to believe this. Honestly I wasn't happy with little Fada's performance. She has an extra RF amplifier stage at the front end but it was not noticeably more sensitive than the 48-461s we restored. So then after investigating I arrived at two issues. 1) The wave trap is a ...

Rocky wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 02, 2022 8:27 am

we just say not gonna do all that, just use click and drag to locate your cursor

You're kidding, right Rocky? The EP_map parsing doesn't look so hard.

OK, this works fine for me: for /R %%a in (*.mkv) do "D:\Don\Programming\C++\DGDecNV\DGIndexNV Good\x64\Release\DGIndexNV.exe" -i "%%~na.mkv" -at "D:\Don\Programming\C++\DGDecNV\DGIndexNV Good\x64\Release\template.avs" -a -e -o "%%~na.dgi" Note that you need the -at option to get AVS files. You can ...

Honestly, everything in the last post is pie-in-the-sky. Everything I tried ran into complex issues that could not be easily solved. So I just left the simple solution, i.e., aux jack, switch, passive combining network, and input audio isolation transformer. So this baby is done!

Little Fada is all done and back together! I failed on three previous attempts to reinstall the dial string. Problem was that I was trying to re-use the old one, which is joined in a loop with a crimp bead. I was going to give up but then I talked to Balti . He told me don't be ridiculous -- back in...

Update: Got the new speaker installed. Sounds fine. Replaced the shorted silver-mica cap that caused the intermittency. Also replaced another silver-mica cap in the audio section. Painted the dial bracket with gloss white (the area that used to have a degraded white cardboard piece glued on). After ...

OMG guys, I finally found the intermittency! After re-capping filter and paper/wax capacitors, replacing out of spec resistors, and replacing all tubes with NOS (new old stock), I still had that annoying pop goes the weasel symptom. When started up cold, everything is fine. After 5 minutes there wou...

The patient is out of intensive care and has emerged from coma, but we can't release her yet. There is a stubborn heat-dependent intermittency. I think it is a bad tube so have ordered replacements. Also the speaker is not salvageable and will have to be replaced.

Guys, I had a great idea. Instead of using a dropping resistor to drop the 127Vac down to 117Vac, I discovered that there are 45Z5GT tubes that are drop-ins for the 35Z5GT. That will make the heaters run at their designed currents and the dropper resistor will not be needed. It's always better not t...

Darn, the patient is critical again. She started getting intermittent again after I thought I fixed that rectifier tube socket. But that socket is just gone and I have to replace it. One of the pin grabbers had cracked and everything was corroded. So I ordered a new socket. This should be fun. Hopef...

While waiting for the resistor and caps I decided to try to tweak up the audio. You're not gonna get much bass out of a chintzy output transformer and a 4-inch speaker (remember, this guy is miniature), but at least we can make it better. So I put a 25uF cap across the output stage cathode resistor....

Here's an interesting article about the Fada Bullet radios:

https://www.aireradio.org/riviste_ester ... _14_15.pdf

Here's what I mean when I say this radio looks like a miniature. I really like it and, as you can see, the cabinet is in pretty good shape. There's a 1001 chassis only on ebay for parts. Always want to have spares on hand. But it's $297 dollars, which is ridiculous, considering we got the full radio...

Alright guys! The Fada 1001 arrived and restoration is underway. It was dead on arrival (contrary to the seller saying it gives static) but I managed to resuscitate the patient. Here is the progress so far: Upon opening the unit, a cascade of mouse feces and old Hershey's Kisses foil and their paper...

Levi told me he knows a lot about audio from his long musical career. He said the LM386 sucks and anyway I shouldn't be using a power amplifier as a preamplifier. He's right. The noise and distortion are terrible. He said cobble up a simple op-amp stage. We had a little preamp sitting around and I ...

Another option is to just integrate a bluetooth receiver into the radio, connected to the LM386 amp input and powered internally. Then B-/neutral does not appear outside the interior of the radio. A small disadvantage is no direct connect of cables from MP3 players, etc. No big deal. I only use blue...