Posted on 11/07/2013 1:08:51 PM PST by backwoods-engineer
Good point.
That part of it is useless now. TV sound these days is encoded very similarly to the MP3s on your iPod, and is transmitted using an 8-way digital code. Your radio, when tuned to that, will just hear noise, if anything at all.
Fascinating article on black start.
Thank you for reading, and for sharing it.
I think they mentioned the main transformers. Those are one of the weak points if another Carrington event happens. We can pretty much forget the grid in many areas of the country. Won’t be back in some areas for years.
Where I was looking, they took off the pinto beans.
If you don’t have one, the mixing pitcher for dried milk on Emergency Essentials is dandy.
“Americans only see party affiliation. They don’t care who’s in Congress or the Senate, because the President is an “everyone” representative, even though he’s anything but that.”
I’m an American, and I would like to opt out of that whole paragraph. I don’t think like that, or act like that.
Note that I’m speaking in generalities. It is understood that there are outliers.
“Note that I’m speaking in generalities. It is understood that there are outliers.”
Okey dokey. Just wanted to stake out my position.
“radio with a TV sound band, “
Are those old TV band radios capable of picking up the new digital TV broadcast signals?
I haven’t actually tried mine lately, I just assumed when they did all that switchover where you had to buy a box or be scrambled that the TV Bands would no longer work.
I just mentioned them to kinda show how old the radio was, but the am/fm and world bands still work. Amazing to me, since most of the stuff we bought more recently didn’t last all that long.
bttt
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