Serious Annoyance...
 

9:59 AMTrue North
Tim
"I run through town in 3rd on my Guzzi. Get it out on the road and a lot of times I'll do the 1-3-5 Dom a dead stop. Lugging isn't good. I agree "


Did you get to any of the Chicago vs St. Louis playoff games?
No Canadian teams to cheer for this year.
....

Hockey? Not really watching per se, but did catch some highlights in the St. Louis satillite news though. Amazing how far the Blues have come up over the years. Some time ago even their fans were betting against them because they were on such a losing streak. Yes, if St. Louis got a score their fans would "boo" them. Lol!

Serious Annoyance...
 

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:42:54 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I run through town in 3rd on my Guzzi. Get it out on the road and a lot of times I'll do the 1-3-5 Dom a dead stop. Lugging isn't good. I agree

Lugging is not really a problem if you are spinning up 2500 or more
and with a useable RPM band of 2500-7500 (the redline) you don't need
that many gears to get a little car like mine going.
The V-tech doesn't even kick in until 5000.
If you are driving aggressively you probably try to stay between 5000
and 7000 and if you are not in a hurry you stay between 2500 and 5000,
In normal light to light, 1-3-5 seems to work fine and I end up using
2 and 4 when i am slowing down for turns and such. Four is probably
the least used gear. With the speed limits around here and some well
timed lights, I spend most of the time in 5.

Serious Annoyance...
 

On 4/26/16 1:07 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:42:54 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I run through town in 3rd on my Guzzi. Get it out on the road and a lot of times I'll do the 1-3-5 Dom a dead stop. Lugging isn't good. I agree

Lugging is not really a problem if you are spinning up 2500 or more
and with a useable RPM band of 2500-7500 (the redline) you don't need
that many gears to get a little car like mine going.
The V-tech doesn't even kick in until 5000.
If you are driving aggressively you probably try to stay between 5000
and 7000 and if you are not in a hurry you stay between 2500 and 5000,
In normal light to light, 1-3-5 seems to work fine and I end up using
2 and 4 when i am slowing down for turns and such. Four is probably
the least used gear. With the speed limits around here and some well
timed lights, I spend most of the time in 5.


I go through the gears on Mr. Blue when starting up from a dead stop,
and downshift through them to negotiate steeper hills and 90 degree
turns. First is pretty close to a stump puller, but the truck is not a
lightweight, so I use first to get rolling. I usually don't use fifth or
sixth unless I'm out on State Route 4 or better.

Serious Annoyance...
 

On 4/23/2016 3:32 PM, True North wrote:
Mr. Luddite
- show quoted text -
"I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut
down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first
commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to
listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick
Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down
but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology."


I don't think there is a single am station left around here.

Interesting. The two top-rated stations up here are AM stations. One
is a news/sports station and the other is a news/talk.

Its kinda sad, actually... I worked for 10 years as a DJ in music
radio, and watched it go from Fun (the DJ's were allowed to have
personality and fun, which formed a "gotta listen" relationship with the
public) to Vanilla (minimal personality is desired because Corporate
wants the listener to like the brand, not the DJ).

Of course, outside of morning drive, very few music stations have a
live person actually in the studio. Assuming the show isn't
satellite-delivered, its either voice-tracked from another state (like
Entercom and Clear Channel iHeart stations), or the local DJ prerecords
it and while they are "on-the air" are really in a production booth
somewhere making commercials.

Serious Annoyance...
 

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:15:52 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 4/26/16 1:07 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:42:54 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I run through town in 3rd on my Guzzi. Get it out on the road and a lot of times I'll do the 1-3-5 Dom a dead stop. Lugging isn't good. I agree

Lugging is not really a problem if you are spinning up 2500 or more
and with a useable RPM band of 2500-7500 (the redline) you don't need
that many gears to get a little car like mine going.
The V-tech doesn't even kick in until 5000.
If you are driving aggressively you probably try to stay between 5000
and 7000 and if you are not in a hurry you stay between 2500 and 5000,
In normal light to light, 1-3-5 seems to work fine and I end up using
2 and 4 when i am slowing down for turns and such. Four is probably
the least used gear. With the speed limits around here and some well
timed lights, I spend most of the time in 5.


I go through the gears on Mr. Blue when starting up from a dead stop,
and downshift through them to negotiate steeper hills and 90 degree
turns. First is pretty close to a stump puller, but the truck is not a
lightweight, so I use first to get rolling. I usually don't use fifth or
sixth unless I'm out on State Route 4 or better.


That is just a reflection of the Northeast thing. Your roads were laid
out when people were riding horses and they have fairly low speed
limits. In SW Florida the 2 lane blacktops are 50 or 60, Us 41 is 55
at the end of the feeder road to my street and the interstate is 70.
Most people speed, at least 10 over. The cops seem to not really care
until you are 15 or 20 over is you are not on a residential street or
s school zone. Unlike Maryland, they do not see speeding as a profit
center.
I have to say I am not really that conscious of what gear I am in most
of the time. I drive by the sound of the engine and the feel of the
road. After 15 years in this car, I just pick the gear instinctively.
I have been driving a stick all my life.
I was out today and 1-3-5 is not right. On US41 it was more like 1-2-5
on my little trip today
At 2500 RPM, 1st is 12, 2d is 22, 3d is 31, 4th is 40 and 5th is
faster than I could go from here to publix.
I downshifted to 3 from 5 to make the turn into the Publix lot road
(made the light) and hit 2d while I was in the lot itself.
I do hit these turns pretty hard tho. That Prelude still handles
pretty well, probably better than my 69 Corvette ;-)

Serious Annoyance...
 

On 4/24/2016 10:22 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:58:30 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/24/2016 1:12 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:05:49 -0500, amdx wrote:

On 4/23/2016 1:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut
down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first
commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to
listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick
Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down
but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology.



I listened to WBZ in the 80's and part of the 90s. I lived in Michigan
at the time and WBZ came in very well in the evening. I enjoyed Larry
Glick in the middle of the night, starting at 1 or 2 am. Glick had some
hilarious skits. Anyone recall him calling the Hawaiian pay phone? I
also listened to David Brudnoy earlier in the evening, around 10 or
11pm, Brudnoy was very intelligent and did more serious interviews.
After I moved to Florida and got up an antenna, I only received
WBZ very clear for about 30 seconds one evening and then never again.
I sent a letter to them asking if the were going to put their
programing on the internet, I got a response, "not at this time", some
CBS rules as I understood it. Years later, I received an email saying
their programing was now on the internet. They must have saved all the
emails asking about internet programming.
Sorry to hear they are shutting down. Good Memories.
Mikek

When I was in DC we went the other way and listened to Dick Biondi on
WLS in Chicago. A good super het radio connected to a 100' antenna
locked it in like it was local at night.

We used to have one good AM talk station here that was all local
during the day and went to syndicated shows like Dr Dean and that
travel/money guy.
The local show was good because it was mostly local stuff and they got
the real guys on. I called in one day, talked to the Lee County DOT
director and got the light at the end of my street retimed within a
week.
That was also where we heard the real story about James Billie (indian
chief and casino manager) and the panther he killed. We also heard the
real story about Reahart and his fight with Lee County that made it
all the way to the steps of the SCOTUS who let his ruling stand (the
government has to pay if they rezone your property)
Both of them just quietly went away in the news.

Rush Limbaugh killed local talk. He started giving his show away and
it was cheaper than paying local people for a bigger audience.

I looked and we have 16 AM stations that you might be able to hear.
Half are spanish, 1 adult contemporary, 1 country, 2 news and the rest
are sports talk.


WBZ is one of the "clear channel" stations meaning there are very few
other AM stations that broadcast near WBZ's frequency assignment. Last
I knew it was a 50,000 watt station and at night it's signal is
listenable over a good part of the country, especially the mid-west.
I have a friend who occasionally co-hosts a call-in talk show on WBZ
that runs from midnight to 5 am. She gets calls from listeners from
Minnesota, Colorado and other states across the nation.

Yup, when we were doing "AM DXing" there were 3 or 4 far away stations
we could get at night if the atmospherics were right. I have picked
up WLS on I-95 in the Carolinas while I was on my way to Florida. It
is weird because it will pop up as clear as a bell and a while later
it just fades away. The old Childrens Band worked that way too.
Occasionally you would hear someone from 1000 miles away but they just
came and went. Whether you could actually respond was another thing.
(although it was technically illegal to do so)


I frequently get WSM up here in Wisconsin. When traveling, I've heard
WTMJ in Nevada when the conditions were right at night.

I used to work for WOKY, and one time we got package in the mail with
a recording of our station and a letter from a guy in Finland who's
hobby was DXing. The format was Standards at the time, but we had an
old-timer DJ (Tom Collins, former Milwaukee Braves announcer) that did a
Big Band show on Saturdays. Kinda interesting picturing Finn's
listening in!

Serious Annoyance...
 

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:15:52 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:


I go through the gears on Mr. Blue when starting up from a dead stop,
and downshift through them to negotiate steeper hills and 90 degree
turns. First is pretty close to a stump puller, but the truck is not a
lightweight, so I use first to get rolling. I usually don't use fifth or
sixth unless I'm out on State Route 4 or better.


It's a Tacoma, correct? It's actually pretty light as pickups go.
Depending on configuration it's curb weight is around 4K lbs. Compare
that to a full sized medium duty pickup like a Chevy 2500 or a Ford
F250. Curb weight is over 6K lbs for the gas models. Heck, the curb
weight on the Nissan Altima I recently bought is only about 500-600 lbs
less than the Tacoma.

Serious Annoyance...
 

On 4/26/2016 3:33 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:15:52 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 4/26/16 1:07 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:42:54 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I run through town in 3rd on my Guzzi. Get it out on the road and a lot of times I'll do the 1-3-5 Dom a dead stop. Lugging isn't good. I agree

Lugging is not really a problem if you are spinning up 2500 or more
and with a useable RPM band of 2500-7500 (the redline) you don't need
that many gears to get a little car like mine going.
The V-tech doesn't even kick in until 5000.
If you are driving aggressively you probably try to stay between 5000
and 7000 and if you are not in a hurry you stay between 2500 and 5000,
In normal light to light, 1-3-5 seems to work fine and I end up using
2 and 4 when i am slowing down for turns and such. Four is probably
the least used gear. With the speed limits around here and some well
timed lights, I spend most of the time in 5.


I go through the gears on Mr. Blue when starting up from a dead stop,
and downshift through them to negotiate steeper hills and 90 degree
turns. First is pretty close to a stump puller, but the truck is not a
lightweight, so I use first to get rolling. I usually don't use fifth or
sixth unless I'm out on State Route 4 or better.


That is just a reflection of the Northeast thing. Your roads were laid
out when people were riding horses and they have fairly low speed
limits. In SW Florida the 2 lane blacktops are 50 or 60, Us 41 is 55
at the end of the feeder road to my street and the interstate is 70.
Most people speed, at least 10 over. The cops seem to not really care
until you are 15 or 20 over is you are not on a residential street or
s school zone. Unlike Maryland, they do not see speeding as a profit
center.
I have to say I am not really that conscious of what gear I am in most
of the time. I drive by the sound of the engine and the feel of the
road. After 15 years in this car, I just pick the gear instinctively.
I have been driving a stick all my life.
I was out today and 1-3-5 is not right. On US41 it was more like 1-2-5
on my little trip today
At 2500 RPM, 1st is 12, 2d is 22, 3d is 31, 4th is 40 and 5th is
faster than I could go from here to publix.
I downshifted to 3 from 5 to make the turn into the Publix lot road
(made the light) and hit 2d while I was in the lot itself.
I do hit these turns pretty hard tho. That Prelude still handles
pretty well, probably better than my 69 Corvette ;-)



Car engines today are designed to rev higher than in the old days and
the torque/horsepower ratings can be deceiving because they are
developed at RPM's that you don't get near in normal driving. It's
interesting to look at their horsepower/torque curves and compare them
to the old big blocks of the 60's. A big old 454, 440 or the famous 426
Hemi developed gobs of torque at 3000 RPM or so. The new
engines can develop decent torque but at much higher RPM.

Serious Annoyance...
 

On 4/26/16 3:33 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:15:52 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 4/26/16 1:07 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:42:54 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I run through town in 3rd on my Guzzi. Get it out on the road and a lot of times I'll do the 1-3-5 Dom a dead stop. Lugging isn't good. I agree

Lugging is not really a problem if you are spinning up 2500 or more
and with a useable RPM band of 2500-7500 (the redline) you don't need
that many gears to get a little car like mine going.
The V-tech doesn't even kick in until 5000.
If you are driving aggressively you probably try to stay between 5000
and 7000 and if you are not in a hurry you stay between 2500 and 5000,
In normal light to light, 1-3-5 seems to work fine and I end up using
2 and 4 when i am slowing down for turns and such. Four is probably
the least used gear. With the speed limits around here and some well
timed lights, I spend most of the time in 5.


I go through the gears on Mr. Blue when starting up from a dead stop,
and downshift through them to negotiate steeper hills and 90 degree
turns. First is pretty close to a stump puller, but the truck is not a
lightweight, so I use first to get rolling. I usually don't use fifth or
sixth unless I'm out on State Route 4 or better.


That is just a reflection of the Northeast thing. Your roads were laid
out when people were riding horses and they have fairly low speed
limits. In SW Florida the 2 lane blacktops are 50 or 60, Us 41 is 55
at the end of the feeder road to my street and the interstate is 70.
Most people speed, at least 10 over. The cops seem to not really care
until you are 15 or 20 over is you are not on a residential street or
s school zone. Unlike Maryland, they do not see speeding as a profit
center.
I have to say I am not really that conscious of what gear I am in most
of the time. I drive by the sound of the engine and the feel of the
road. After 15 years in this car, I just pick the gear instinctively.
I have been driving a stick all my life.
I was out today and 1-3-5 is not right. On US41 it was more like 1-2-5
on my little trip today
At 2500 RPM, 1st is 12, 2d is 22, 3d is 31, 4th is 40 and 5th is
faster than I could go from here to publix.
I downshifted to 3 from 5 to make the turn into the Publix lot road
(made the light) and hit 2d while I was in the lot itself.
I do hit these turns pretty hard tho. That Prelude still handles
pretty well, probably better than my 69 Corvette ;-)



Yes, we have hills and curvy roads. The two lane state roads here are 50-55.

Serious Annoyance...
 

On 4/26/16 3:45 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:15:52 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:


I go through the gears on Mr. Blue when starting up from a dead stop,
and downshift through them to negotiate steeper hills and 90 degree
turns. First is pretty close to a stump puller, but the truck is not a
lightweight, so I use first to get rolling. I usually don't use fifth or
sixth unless I'm out on State Route 4 or better.


It's a Tacoma, correct? It's actually pretty light as pickups go.
Depending on configuration it's curb weight is around 4K lbs. Compare
that to a full sized medium duty pickup like a Chevy 2500 or a Ford
F250. Curb weight is over 6K lbs for the gas models. Heck, the curb
weight on the Nissan Altima I recently bought is only about 500-600 lbs
less than the Tacoma.


I think my model weighs 4500 pounds, but it's only a V6. If memory
services, the four cylinder Altima we had weighed about 3100 pounds.

Serious Annoyance...
 

On 4/26/2016 3:59 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 4/26/16 3:45 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:15:52 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:


I go through the gears on Mr. Blue when starting up from a dead stop,
and downshift through them to negotiate steeper hills and 90 degree
turns. First is pretty close to a stump puller, but the truck is not a
lightweight, so I use first to get rolling. I usually don't use
fifth or
sixth unless I'm out on State Route 4 or better.


It's a Tacoma, correct? It's actually pretty light as pickups go.
Depending on configuration it's curb weight is around 4K lbs. Compare
that to a full sized medium duty pickup like a Chevy 2500 or a Ford
F250. Curb weight is over 6K lbs for the gas models. Heck, the curb
weight on the Nissan Altima I recently bought is only about 500-600 lbs
less than the Tacoma.


I think my model weighs 4500 pounds, but it's only a V6. If memory
services, the four cylinder Altima we had weighed about 3100 pounds.

The one I just bought is 3,197 for the bare bones "S" model to 3,463 lbs
for the fully loaded "SL" model with the V6. Mine is somewhere in
between, being the SL but with the four banger.

Still getting used to the weird CVT transmission that doesn't shift.
Reminds me of older automatics that were "slipping". Cracks me up going
down a steep hill with your foot off the gas. RPMs climb but
it is doing engine braking.

Serious Annoyance...
 

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:53:58 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/26/2016 3:33 PM, wrote:

At 2500 RPM, 1st is 12, 2d is 22, 3d is 31, 4th is 40 and 5th is
faster than I could go from here to publix.
I downshifted to 3 from 5 to make the turn into the Publix lot road
(made the light) and hit 2d while I was in the lot itself.
I do hit these turns pretty hard tho. That Prelude still handles
pretty well, probably better than my 69 Corvette ;-)



Car engines today are designed to rev higher than in the old days and
the torque/horsepower ratings can be deceiving because they are
developed at RPM's that you don't get near in normal driving. It's
interesting to look at their horsepower/torque curves and compare them
to the old big blocks of the 60's. A big old 454, 440 or the famous 426
Hemi developed gobs of torque at 3000 RPM or so. The new
engines can develop decent torque but at much higher RPM.

This V-tech doesn't really step out until you hit 5k RPM and the valve
timing changes. Then it feels like the secondaries opening on an old
Quadrajet. I assume the gas mileage starts dropping pretty fast too.
If you drive it up in that power band it is a pretty peppy little car,
for what it is (2 liter) but I get pretty good mileage if I drive a
tad more conservatively. I really don't drive enough to notice the
difference tho.

Serious Annoyance...
 

On 4/26/2016 4:17 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:53:58 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/26/2016 3:33 PM, wrote:

At 2500 RPM, 1st is 12, 2d is 22, 3d is 31, 4th is 40 and 5th is
faster than I could go from here to publix.
I downshifted to 3 from 5 to make the turn into the Publix lot road
(made the light) and hit 2d while I was in the lot itself.
I do hit these turns pretty hard tho. That Prelude still handles
pretty well, probably better than my 69 Corvette ;-)



Car engines today are designed to rev higher than in the old days and
the torque/horsepower ratings can be deceiving because they are
developed at RPM's that you don't get near in normal driving. It's
interesting to look at their horsepower/torque curves and compare them
to the old big blocks of the 60's. A big old 454, 440 or the famous 426
Hemi developed gobs of torque at 3000 RPM or so. The new
engines can develop decent torque but at much higher RPM.

This V-tech doesn't really step out until you hit 5k RPM and the valve
timing changes. Then it feels like the secondaries opening on an old
Quadrajet. I assume the gas mileage starts dropping pretty fast too.
If you drive it up in that power band it is a pretty peppy little car,
for what it is (2 liter) but I get pretty good mileage if I drive a
tad more conservatively. I really don't drive enough to notice the
difference tho.


When Chrysler introduced the current "Hemi" that they use in their cars
and trucks I was really kinda disappointed. I bought a 2004 Durango
with the Hemi thinking it would have some "ummph" to it. It was ok but
again, it's rated horsepower and torque was developed at some ridiculous
RPM (around 6K, IIRC) that you would never do in normal driving.
Normal acceleration with RPM up to about 3500 didn't feel all that
thrilling. Certainly not the same as tromping on the gas in the '67
GTO I had with a four speed. Threw your head back.

Serious Annoyance...
 

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:26:47 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/26/2016 4:17 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:53:58 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/26/2016 3:33 PM, wrote:

At 2500 RPM, 1st is 12, 2d is 22, 3d is 31, 4th is 40 and 5th is
faster than I could go from here to publix.
I downshifted to 3 from 5 to make the turn into the Publix lot road
(made the light) and hit 2d while I was in the lot itself.
I do hit these turns pretty hard tho. That Prelude still handles
pretty well, probably better than my 69 Corvette ;-)



Car engines today are designed to rev higher than in the old days and
the torque/horsepower ratings can be deceiving because they are
developed at RPM's that you don't get near in normal driving. It's
interesting to look at their horsepower/torque curves and compare them
to the old big blocks of the 60's. A big old 454, 440 or the famous 426
Hemi developed gobs of torque at 3000 RPM or so. The new
engines can develop decent torque but at much higher RPM.

This V-tech doesn't really step out until you hit 5k RPM and the valve
timing changes. Then it feels like the secondaries opening on an old
Quadrajet. I assume the gas mileage starts dropping pretty fast too.
If you drive it up in that power band it is a pretty peppy little car,
for what it is (2 liter) but I get pretty good mileage if I drive a
tad more conservatively. I really don't drive enough to notice the
difference tho.


When Chrysler introduced the current "Hemi" that they use in their cars
and trucks I was really kinda disappointed. I bought a 2004 Durango
with the Hemi thinking it would have some "ummph" to it. It was ok but
again, it's rated horsepower and torque was developed at some ridiculous
RPM (around 6K, IIRC) that you would never do in normal driving.
Normal acceleration with RPM up to about 3500 didn't feel all that
thrilling. Certainly not the same as tromping on the gas in the '67
GTO I had with a four speed. Threw your head back.


My 67 Chevelle was like that but it was bought that way. It had a 456
rear and I could chirp the tires in 4th gear.

Serious Annoyance...
 

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:28:58 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 4/25/16 4:19 PM, Keine Keyserschei?e wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:34:00 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 4/25/16 10:35 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:25:00 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße
wrote:

I guess I lucked out. The original owner of my truck must have bought a lifetime subscription. Mine
has been playing for five years now, and I've never heard from them. Only place to get 'Bluegrass
Junction'!
--

... and he forgot or just did not know he could transfer that to
another receiver


Maybe that's why he got rid of the truck. :)
I don't "get" the concept of Sirius unless you happen to live in a
really ****ty media market with limited choices of radio programming or
you don't have a little player that holds hundreds or thousands of your
selections you can play through your car radio. My truck's radio came
with about a half dozen of these subscription services pre-programmed
that you have to sign up and pay for...not likely I'll choose any of them.

DC is a great media market, but the media is full of commercials. I'd rather listen to music without
a commercial every two to three minutes.

If I were you, I'd stick with your little player.
--

The "media" is only full of commercials if you dial up a "commercial"
radio station. I don't. I listen to two non-commercial "classical music"
stations and WAMU for news and intelligent discussions. If I happen to
not like the music selections available on the radio, I simply switch to
the 30+ gigs of my favorite music on my iPhone, ranging from Aaron
Neville to Wynton Marsalis, with thousands of alphabetical stops in
between, including the Dillards. I think but I am not sure that the
truck sound system will also play, via bluetooth, my favorite internet
radio stations, which are also non-commercial. Haven't tried that yet.

For my bluegrass break this morning, I was listening to Vivaldi's music
for lute and mandolin.

You are such a man, Krause.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, juvenile name-callers, and narcissists...not guns!

Serious Annoyance...
 

On 4/26/16 5:39 PM, Keine Keyserschei�e wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:28:58 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 4/25/16 4:19 PM, Keine Keyserschei?e wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:34:00 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 4/25/16 10:35 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:25:00 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße
wrote:

I guess I lucked out. The original owner of my truck must have bought a lifetime subscription. Mine
has been playing for five years now, and I've never heard from them. Only place to get 'Bluegrass
Junction'!
--

... and he forgot or just did not know he could transfer that to
another receiver


Maybe that's why he got rid of the truck. :)
I don't "get" the concept of Sirius unless you happen to live in a
really ****ty media market with limited choices of radio programming or
you don't have a little player that holds hundreds or thousands of your
selections you can play through your car radio. My truck's radio came
with about a half dozen of these subscription services pre-programmed
that you have to sign up and pay for...not likely I'll choose any of them.

DC is a great media market, but the media is full of commercials. I'd rather listen to music without
a commercial every two to three minutes.

If I were you, I'd stick with your little player.
--

The "media" is only full of commercials if you dial up a "commercial"
radio station. I don't. I listen to two non-commercial "classical music"
stations and WAMU for news and intelligent discussions. If I happen to
not like the music selections available on the radio, I simply switch to
the 30+ gigs of my favorite music on my iPhone, ranging from Aaron
Neville to Wynton Marsalis, with thousands of alphabetical stops in
between, including the Dillards. I think but I am not sure that the
truck sound system will also play, via bluetooth, my favorite internet
radio stations, which are also non-commercial. Haven't tried that yet.

For my bluegrass break this morning, I was listening to Vivaldi's music
for lute and mandolin.

You are such a man, Krause.
--

Compared to you, my neutered cats are men.

And the truck system does play internet radio stations, but, of course,
eat into my monthly data allotment.

There's no reason to listen to "commercial" radio stations in the DC
market. There are plenty of no-cost alternatives.

WAMU-FM at American University used to have bluegrass every afternoon.
Now, on 105.5 FM, it has WAMU Bluegrass Country, transmitted from a
tower in Bethesda. Commercial free.

Serious Annoyance...
 

wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:42:54 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I run through town in 3rd on my Guzzi. Get it out on the road and a lot
of times I'll do the 1-3-5 Dom a dead stop. Lugging isn't good. I agree

Lugging is not really a problem if you are spinning up 2500 or more
and with a useable RPM band of 2500-7500 (the redline) you don't need
that many gears to get a little car like mine going.
The V-tech doesn't even kick in until 5000.
If you are driving aggressively you probably try to stay between 5000
and 7000 and if you are not in a hurry you stay between 2500 and 5000,
In normal light to light, 1-3-5 seems to work fine and I end up using
2 and 4 when i am slowing down for turns and such. Four is probably
the least used gear. With the speed limits around here and some well
timed lights, I spend most of the time in 5.



Just like in the old 4 speed pickup. Never used first. Was the granny
low.

Serious Annoyance...
 

Ryan P. wrote:
On 4/23/2016 3:32 PM, True North wrote:
Mr. Luddite
- show quoted text -
"I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut
down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first
commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to
listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick
Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down
but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology."


I don't think there is a single am station left around here.

Interesting. The two top-rated stations up here are AM stations. One
is a news/sports station and the other is a news/talk.

Its kinda sad, actually... I worked for 10 years as a DJ in music
radio, and watched it go from Fun (the DJ's were allowed to have
personality and fun, which formed a "gotta listen" relationship with the
public) to Vanilla (minimal personality is desired because Corporate
wants the listener to like the brand, not the DJ).

Of course, outside of morning drive, very few music stations have a
live person actually in the studio. Assuming the show isn't
satellite-delivered, its either voice-tracked from another state (like
Entercom and Clear Channel iHeart stations), or the local DJ prerecords
it and while they are "on-the air" are really in a production booth
somewhere making commercials.





Rush Limbaugh originally started as a top 40 DJ in Sacramento. So
personality did matter then.

Serious Annoyance...
 

wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:15:52 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 4/26/16 1:07 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:42:54 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I run through town in 3rd on my Guzzi. Get it out on the road and a
lot of times I'll do the 1-3-5 Dom a dead stop. Lugging isn't good. I agree

Lugging is not really a problem if you are spinning up 2500 or more
and with a useable RPM band of 2500-7500 (the redline) you don't need
that many gears to get a little car like mine going.
The V-tech doesn't even kick in until 5000.
If you are driving aggressively you probably try to stay between 5000
and 7000 and if you are not in a hurry you stay between 2500 and 5000,
In normal light to light, 1-3-5 seems to work fine and I end up using
2 and 4 when i am slowing down for turns and such. Four is probably
the least used gear. With the speed limits around here and some well
timed lights, I spend most of the time in 5.


I go through the gears on Mr. Blue when starting up from a dead stop,
and downshift through them to negotiate steeper hills and 90 degree
turns. First is pretty close to a stump puller, but the truck is not a
lightweight, so I use first to get rolling. I usually don't use fifth or
sixth unless I'm out on State Route 4 or better.


That is just a reflection of the Northeast thing. Your roads were laid
out when people were riding horses and they have fairly low speed
limits. In SW Florida the 2 lane blacktops are 50 or 60, Us 41 is 55
at the end of the feeder road to my street and the interstate is 70.
Most people speed, at least 10 over. The cops seem to not really care
until you are 15 or 20 over is you are not on a residential street or
s school zone. Unlike Maryland, they do not see speeding as a profit
center.
I have to say I am not really that conscious of what gear I am in most
of the time. I drive by the sound of the engine and the feel of the
road. After 15 years in this car, I just pick the gear instinctively.
I have been driving a stick all my life.
I was out today and 1-3-5 is not right. On US41 it was more like 1-2-5
on my little trip today
At 2500 RPM, 1st is 12, 2d is 22, 3d is 31, 4th is 40 and 5th is
faster than I could go from here to publix.
I downshifted to 3 from 5 to make the turn into the Publix lot road
(made the light) and hit 2d while I was in the lot itself.
I do hit these turns pretty hard tho. That Prelude still handles
pretty well, probably better than my 69 Corvette ;-)


I went to automatics for daily driver in 1968. After towing my
B-production vette in a hundred miles of traffic leaving Laguna Seca, and
the leg cramping from clutch usage, went to Automatic on next car. Other
than my VW Rabbit in the 80's no sticks required.

Serious Annoyance...
 

Tim wrote:
I run through town in 3rd on my Guzzi. Get it out on the road and a lot of times I'll do the 1-3-5 Dom a dead stop. Lugging isn't good. I agree


The last car we had with a manual tranny was light and strong so
starting in 2nd was the norm on a flat surface. From there, 4th to 6th
was fine when running up to speed.

Serious Annoyance...
 

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 18:38:01 -0500, Califbill
wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:15:52 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 4/26/16 1:07 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:42:54 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I run through town in 3rd on my Guzzi. Get it out on the road and a
lot of times I'll do the 1-3-5 Dom a dead stop. Lugging isn't good. I agree

Lugging is not really a problem if you are spinning up 2500 or more
and with a useable RPM band of 2500-7500 (the redline) you don't need
that many gears to get a little car like mine going.
The V-tech doesn't even kick in until 5000.
If you are driving aggressively you probably try to stay between 5000
and 7000 and if you are not in a hurry you stay between 2500 and 5000,
In normal light to light, 1-3-5 seems to work fine and I end up using
2 and 4 when i am slowing down for turns and such. Four is probably
the least used gear. With the speed limits around here and some well
timed lights, I spend most of the time in 5.


I go through the gears on Mr. Blue when starting up from a dead stop,
and downshift through them to negotiate steeper hills and 90 degree
turns. First is pretty close to a stump puller, but the truck is not a
lightweight, so I use first to get rolling. I usually don't use fifth or
sixth unless I'm out on State Route 4 or better.


That is just a reflection of the Northeast thing. Your roads were laid
out when people were riding horses and they have fairly low speed
limits. In SW Florida the 2 lane blacktops are 50 or 60, Us 41 is 55
at the end of the feeder road to my street and the interstate is 70.
Most people speed, at least 10 over. The cops seem to not really care
until you are 15 or 20 over is you are not on a residential street or
s school zone. Unlike Maryland, they do not see speeding as a profit
center.
I have to say I am not really that conscious of what gear I am in most
of the time. I drive by the sound of the engine and the feel of the
road. After 15 years in this car, I just pick the gear instinctively.
I have been driving a stick all my life.
I was out today and 1-3-5 is not right. On US41 it was more like 1-2-5
on my little trip today
At 2500 RPM, 1st is 12, 2d is 22, 3d is 31, 4th is 40 and 5th is
faster than I could go from here to publix.
I downshifted to 3 from 5 to make the turn into the Publix lot road
(made the light) and hit 2d while I was in the lot itself.
I do hit these turns pretty hard tho. That Prelude still handles
pretty well, probably better than my 69 Corvette ;-)


I went to automatics for daily driver in 1968. After towing my
B-production vette in a hundred miles of traffic leaving Laguna Seca, and
the leg cramping from clutch usage, went to Automatic on next car. Other
than my VW Rabbit in the 80's no sticks required.

I was driving my daughter's old (auto) LeBaron around for a while but
when that one gave up the ghost I was ready to get back to a 5 speed
so I bought the Prelude.
My trucks have all had an auto and I think it is actually better for
towing but that was not like driving a fun car.
I have usually managed to avoid a whole lot of stop and go. When the
Beltway got to be a parking lot ion the morning and evenings I started
working midnight to 8. I got to see the cars backed up every morning
but I was going the other way.

Serious Annoyance...
 

On 4/26/2016 6:38 PM, Califbill wrote:
Ryan P. wrote:
On 4/23/2016 3:32 PM, True North wrote:
Mr. Luddite
- show quoted text -
"I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut
down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first
commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to
listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick
Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down
but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology."


I don't think there is a single am station left around here.

Interesting. The two top-rated stations up here are AM stations. One
is a news/sports station and the other is a news/talk.

Its kinda sad, actually... I worked for 10 years as a DJ in music
radio, and watched it go from Fun (the DJ's were allowed to have
personality and fun, which formed a "gotta listen" relationship with the
public) to Vanilla (minimal personality is desired because Corporate
wants the listener to like the brand, not the DJ).

Of course, outside of morning drive, very few music stations have a
live person actually in the studio. Assuming the show isn't
satellite-delivered, its either voice-tracked from another state (like
Entercom and Clear Channel iHeart stations), or the local DJ prerecords
it and while they are "on-the air" are really in a production booth
somewhere making commercials.





Rush Limbaugh originally started as a top 40 DJ in Sacramento. So
personality did matter then.

Actually, if you don't automatically hate everything about him because
of his politics, he's got a quirky lighthearted personality and makes a
lot of one-line jokes. Take off 30 years and I can certainly see him
being a DJ.

I hate Bill Clinton's politics, but I think he'd be fun to have a beer
with at a bar. :)

Serious Annoyance...
 

On 4/27/16 11:16 AM, Ryan P. wrote:
On 4/26/2016 6:38 PM, Califbill wrote:
Ryan P. wrote:
On 4/23/2016 3:32 PM, True North wrote:
Mr. Luddite
- show quoted text -
"I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being
shut
down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first
commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to
listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick
Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down
but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology."


I don't think there is a single am station left around here.

Interesting. The two top-rated stations up here are AM stations. One
is a news/sports station and the other is a news/talk.

Its kinda sad, actually... I worked for 10 years as a DJ in music
radio, and watched it go from Fun (the DJ's were allowed to have
personality and fun, which formed a "gotta listen" relationship with the
public) to Vanilla (minimal personality is desired because Corporate
wants the listener to like the brand, not the DJ).

Of course, outside of morning drive, very few music stations have a
live person actually in the studio. Assuming the show isn't
satellite-delivered, its either voice-tracked from another state (like
Entercom and Clear Channel iHeart stations), or the local DJ prerecords
it and while they are "on-the air" are really in a production booth
somewhere making commercials.





Rush Limbaugh originally started as a top 40 DJ in Sacramento. So
personality did matter then.

Actually, if you don't automatically hate everything about him because
of his politics, he's got a quirky lighthearted personality and makes a
lot of one-line jokes. Take off 30 years and I can certainly see him
being a DJ.

I hate Bill Clinton's politics, but I think he'd be fun to have a beer
with at a bar. :)


Well, hell, Mussolini made the trains run on time. :)