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Jonny 290 posted:was real big in the 80s and 90s was it tho? i talked to cosmonauts on mir when it flew over once using the ham radio down the street and of my sample size of knowing one ham i am not sure “popular” is being used correctly here.
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:was it tho? yeah, in the shuttle days it was really common for hams who had both a 430 mhz ham TV setup and a TVRO 8-footer to tune into the shuttle video feeds that nasa would put up on the geosync birds, and then retransmit them to the town on a channel people could tune into on a regular cable tuner. they actually got a waiver on the 'no broadcasting' rule for NASA-originated transmissions just cause everybody loved the shuttle so much
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Volmarias posted:Built in FM radio support on mobile devices. i always wanted this unironically. and still do
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you'd think iheartradio would have been all about those but they were part of the lobbying group that tried real hard to disable the FM tuner chips on phones
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Jonny 290 posted:you'd think iheartradio would have been all about those but they were part of the lobbying group that tried real hard to disable the FM tuner chips on phones terrible. was it out of fear of recording capability? i feel like it was something else, but that seems like a plausible angle for them
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Agile Vector posted:terrible. was it out of fear of recording capability? i feel like it was something else, but that seems like a plausible angle for them streams are easy to track and get metrics and general listener data on. radio is still nielsen box type poo poo. remember, they're not in the business of playing music, they're in the business of selling ads
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Jonny 290 posted:you'd think iheartradio would have been all about those but they were part of the lobbying group that tried real hard to disable the FM tuner chips on phones oh yeah i know some people involved in the emmis / nextradio thing and boy apple does not want to enable the fm radio (iirc they don’t include them in their own custom designs either so anything like a4 or later doesn’t even have them). samsung is turning them on in future US phones I guess, so they’ve won something there.
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Jonny 290 posted:streams are easy to track and get metrics and general listener data on. radio is still nielsen box type poo poo. i always wondered why that was and i should have known.
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Jonny 290 posted:streams are easy to track and get metrics and general listener data on. radio is still nielsen box type poo poo. oh yeah, they were pushing online streaming then, doy. i think that shift pushed me into podcasts and audiobooks and off radio at the time EIDE Van Hagar posted:oh yeah i know some people involved in the emmis / nextradio thing and boy apple does not want to enable the fm radio (iirc they don’t include them in their own custom designs either so anything like a4 or later doesn’t even have them). ironically, one of the last fm devices I carried regularly was the ipod remote, which added a fm tuner app as an option  well, the last was probably the n800, but that was an outlier for many features at the time
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah, in the shuttle days it was really common for hams who had both a 430 mhz ham TV setup and a TVRO 8-footer to tune into the shuttle video feeds that nasa would put up on the geosync birds, and then retransmit them to the town on a channel people could tune into on a regular cable tuner. they actually got a waiver on the 'no broadcasting' rule for NASA-originated transmissions just cause everybody loved the shuttle so much do hams still talk to ISS?
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:do hams still talk to ISS? All the time. They actually just installed a voice repeater this year so there's a 50 watt voice fireball repeater that covers like a quarter of the US for 10 minutes at a time. They do one way slow scan TV events too, just this last weekend they had one.  they run a digital APRS station too so you can send a little "hi everybody!" data packet up there and it'll pop up on like 100 different radios. basically the Yo of radio
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my grandpa can confirm that WLW could be heard emanating from the barb wire fences on our farm in Cincinnati back in the day. We were probably 10-15 miles from the tower, maybe?
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:everything else sounds like absolute poo poo!! do not attempt, nothing sacred is stored here. gonna label my old mix CDs of Napster ripped low nitrate mp3s in a box saying "this is not a place of honour, no tunes of value are buried here"
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when someone mentions 69 and then someone else says "nice"
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Progressive JPEG posted:"nice"
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Jonny 290 posted:All the time. They actually just installed a voice repeater this year so there's a 50 watt voice fireball repeater that covers like a quarter of the US for 10 minutes at a time. this is cool
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the iss is way bigger than I thought it’d be
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:the iss is way bigger than I thought it’d be don't be fooled, it's just a zoom background
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Progressive JPEG posted:when someone mentions 69 and then someone else says "nice" 
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Syntrillium Cool Edit Pro
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Trillian, which apparently is still around?
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the manner in which warez was traded on AOL someone realized an AOL email box was free unlimited 1995 cloud storage, you just email the file to yourself with the file as an attachment want to share the file? just forward the email. on AOL’s end they deduplicated the attachment so instant file transfer. which then beget chat rooms where people ran file sharing bots that would simply forward you hundreds of emails full of files from their “archive”
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lol that owns
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also, the practice of downloading warez through irc bots
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polyester concept posted:and if the antenna was more concealed, this would fukken own
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kitten smoothie posted:the manner in which warez was traded on AOL that's somewhat similar to todays Google drive cloning. it just involves more accounts.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:also, the practice of downloading warez through irc bots still a thing for ebooks my current phone came with an fm tuner and wireless earbuds
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people who say warez like Juarez also saying the word warez out loud for any reason
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va-rets
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PILUKIHVEJÄ JA VARETSII
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:also, the practice of downloading warez through irc bots /msg Xx-W4r3zB0T_420-xX xdcc send #69
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axolotl farmer posted:/msg Xx-W4r3zB0T_420-xX xdcc send #69 ah, memories
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greg the peanut posted:Trillian, which apparently is still around? digsby, which was like trillium but they burned goodwill by suddenly bundling crapware browser bars in their installers pcworld posted:If you're not careful during the installation process, you may end up with a lot of software on your PC without realizing it. During installation at defaults, Digsby install a half dozen pieces of software on your PC, including the Yahoo Toolbar and the NetFreeze Assistant on your PC. So if you don't want them installed, make sure to click Decline each andy every time. Also, it will attempt to change your search page to My.Freeze.com, and install various icons on your desktop that links to sponsor unless you uncheck those options during installation. In addition, in order to install it, you must use the InstallIQ installer, which some people have called adware.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:people who say warez like Juarez idk I know it's wrong but "call of warez" has a ring to it
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kitten smoothie posted:the manner in which warez was traded on AOL well you just solved a 27 year old mystery for me. i went over to a friend's house as a kid, and his older brother was playing DOOM II. he explained that you could just download the game from aol. so i told my folks that you could get software for free on aol, and they were like... 'uhhhhhhh, sure kid.' so i tried to prove them wrong by searching aol's weird file hosting system, but of course, there was only fan art and other bullshit for DOOM. i always wondered how that was set up back then
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Agile Vector posted:digsby, which was like trillium but they burned goodwill by suddenly bundling crapware browser bars in their installers
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BLOBby Newmark posted:still a thing for ebooks my non tech fluent gf asked me to crack mirc on her laptop for this exact reason
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