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edisonprime

Last reply May 11, 2016 · posted in Local Radio Discussion

Any reason why a local FM station has a crackly signal?

From what I know y105.3 (KYBA) from I think either Rochester, MN or Stewartville, MN comes in crackly on all my home radio devices, but all other local radio stations come in perfect. I live a few blocks north of St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, MN. Any input why this station has problems?

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grim_reaper

Apr 26, 2016

people still listen to commerical radio :what

. i got over that years ago with all of the ad's and the same 10 songs over and over with so many online streaming options and being able to burn cd's and make a thumb drive full of my favorite songs. i thought commerical radio went down the crapper years ago once everyone started carrying ipods smart phones and mp3 players

Tank

Apr 29, 2016

grim_reaper said:
people still listen to commerical radio.

i still do in the vehicle. but at home i mainly listen to the audio streams on directv or the internet.
my market is very minimal at best for commercial radio

5 stations total
2 religious (1 on am 1 on fm)
1 Yellowstone public radio low powered translator
2 commercial stations (owned by same people). 1 on am and 1 on fm

so yeah pretty limited. i can get some am stations that are really further out there on am but they are pretty scratchy

navychop

Apr 29, 2016

Ok, I'll look for WION on Internet right now.

navychop

Apr 29, 2016

Other than trying to open in iSpreadsheet or iMovie, no prob. Playing now. But what would be the best BT streaming method for the car?

radio

Apr 29, 2016

Thanks!
on our website, via tune-in radio, or google play or i-tunes

Bob Haller

May 11, 2016

i had a motion detector light that at sundown powered up and wiped out e single channel i wanted. 1410 kqv. the engineering division ofthe station tried but was stumped too. till one night i was listening to the station, on a battery powered radio, noise and all till we had a neighborhood power failure. the interference disappeared......poof gone

next day the noise was back till i turned off my main breaker. after some troublehooting i turned off each breaker till the noise disappeared.....

finally found the noise creator. it was a nice but iffy motion control light. it was unstable in very cold temps. i put its remote detector on a tree to power up anytime someone came up the walk....

i tossed it in the trash, trimmed trees added a pole light so it was never pure black, removed a tiny trip hazard step and forgot about it till seeig this thread.

it was a challenge troubleshooting. at the time i was very proud to have figured it out..

but this solution started a new problem every now and then my pole lights dusk to dawn sensor would die for no apparent reason. the sensors dieing 3 to 4 times a year were a pricey nuisance. till one night i witnessed the failure. i was wallking out the driveway, the light in the pole came on, the bulb burned out in one of those white hot poofs, left me with a after image. i hustled and replaced the bulb.but the sensor had died...

i went to a CFL and it never died again. although i have a new sensor sitting on my desk. it must be 20 years since its last replacement, and the clear glass or plastic sensor window has turned obscure. so in the slitest shadow the light comes on.......

since i now use a LED bulp in that pole light energy saved may not matter

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Scott Greczkowski

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Song Name Game Part 3!

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sdfntx

Today at 10:19 AM

I Care About Detroit - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles

dishstaller

Today at 10:32 AM

I Wanna Talk About Me - Toby Keith

Bobby

51 minutes ago

98.6 - Keith

harshness

18 minutes ago

I'm Easy - Keith Carridine

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It's Easy - Boston

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reubenray

Last reply Today at 10:36 AM · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Laptop Shutting Off When On Battery?

Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.

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arlo

Today at 10:09 AM

A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.

dishstaller

Today at 10:36 AM

arlo said:
That's all I got.

That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks

TRG

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Last reply Today at 10:27 AM · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Starlink Router question

I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

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b4pjoe

Saturday at 2:12 PM

TRG said:
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.

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HipKat

Saturday at 11:07 PM

TRG said:
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc

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Foxbat

Sunday at 12:44 AM

TRG said:
…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.

harshness

Sunday at 11:46 AM

If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

Starlink V5 Is Here: What RVers Need to Know

Overview of the new Starlink V5 model along with comparison to the previous V4 model along with a recommended setup for mobile internet users.

mobilemusthave.com

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Foxbat

Today at 10:27 AM

Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.

dishstaller

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Last reply Today at 10:27 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

I think we could all use a laugh - Rodney Dangerfield on Carson

Good...simple humor. Enjoy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92AtfTLge4

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJy0WnejlF4

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Jimbo

Today at 12:37 AM

Not Rodney, but a laugh ...

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WHEcmortfK0?feature=share

dishstaller

Today at 10:27 AM

Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.

dishstaller

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Last reply Today at 10:17 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

At least 64 dead in Spanish passenger train collision

Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 11:24 AM

dishstaller said:
Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.

dishstaller

Today at 10:17 AM

Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.

The safest seat to sit on in a train

Safety experts have shared top tips on train safety after a fatal railway crash in Spain killed 69 people, including where the safest place is in an emergency.

www.dailymail.com