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by Plate Cap
Tue May 16, 2023 9:25 pm
Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
Topic: Last Electronics Store
Replies: 37
Views: 7316

Re: Last Electronics Store

Just called Bernie at the Electronic Connection....he said EPCO was owned by a guy named Hollowecki. Bernie had never visited, but said that he recalls it in Allen Park. He mentioned MN Duffy near Cass Tech, Reno Radio on Broadway in Detroit, and Wiedemeiers and Purchase Radio in Ann Arbor. He used ...
by Plate Cap
Tue May 16, 2023 8:51 pm
Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
Topic: Last Electronics Store
Replies: 37
Views: 7316

Re: Last Electronics Store

I recall a green building, but that is a 50 year old plus recollection and likely faulty.

It was north of where the fire department is, not too awfully south of Southfield.
by Plate Cap
Sun May 14, 2023 5:58 pm
Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
Topic: Last Electronics Store
Replies: 37
Views: 7316

Re: Last Electronics Store

Anyone remember 'The Electronics Parts Company' (EPCO) in Allen Park on the west side of Roosevelt Road, south of Southfield, well north of Ecorse, along the railroad tracks?

My high school electronics teacher arranged a discount for his students there.
by Plate Cap
Sun May 07, 2023 11:11 am
Forum: Network & Syndicated Radio and TV
Topic: Coronation
Replies: 12
Views: 1795

Re: Coronation

audiophile wrote:
Sun May 07, 2023 10:33 am
Kind, TCT? That's a false implication, and reeks of trollism.
And you were expecting something else from the party in question? I recommend the ignore function; it works pretty well.
by Plate Cap
Wed May 03, 2023 10:31 am
Forum: Chatterbox
Topic: Hollywood TV & movie strike
Replies: 29
Views: 1541

Re: Hollywood TV & movie strike

From the article linked: "Deadline reports that "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" are stopping production beginning on Tuesday." As Graham Wellington wrote on this board a while back, I'm not sure it should take a full cadre of wr...
by Plate Cap
Tue May 02, 2023 12:53 am
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Sinclair called out
Replies: 11
Views: 1859

Re: Sinclair called out

As I said on another post in another forum: The writing is on the wall, and the smart ones are getting out now. "Kids" (whatever that is....under 35?) just ain't watching local news on local stations. They are barely watching the local stations. You can't run a news department running Medicare Advan...
by Plate Cap
Sun Apr 30, 2023 10:58 am
Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
Topic: FM power in different areas
Replies: 35
Views: 4058

Re: FM power in different areas

Are there advantages or disadvantages between height and lower power vs. lower height and higher power? Height trumps power virtually every time. By having more antenna height, you create a larger area of line of sight, and that is, for the most part, what determines coverage. Free space path atten...
by Plate Cap
Thu Apr 27, 2023 9:44 pm
Forum: Neighboring States/Ontario
Topic: NBC 24 Ending News Operations
Replies: 22
Views: 2452

Re: NBC 24 Ending News Operations

I've been told repeatedly by millennials and younger that 'cable' is not of interest to them, and I assume much less is OTA TV. I even got into a rather pointless discussion with a young friend who decried the need for cable since "we just stream over wifi". She was not able to understand that her "...
by Plate Cap
Wed Apr 26, 2023 2:04 pm
Forum: Chatterbox
Topic: Northville Skateboard Park
Replies: 2
Views: 363

Re: Northville Skateboard Park

I don't have a problem with the park being 'launched in his memory' as the story states, but I do have a serious problem with him being forever and officially memorialized. He is not one of the people that stormed the cockpit of Flight 93 on 9/11 and saved a lot of lives on the ground. He's not a Co...
by Plate Cap
Tue Apr 25, 2023 12:01 pm
Forum: Chatterbox
Topic: Hampton Inn
Replies: 180
Views: 14164

Re: Hampton Inn

Wow.

Two pages of discussion based upon the alleged remarks of a minimally paid front desk attendant who seems to have been elevated here to the role of CIO of Hilton/Hampton and assumed to be speaking for the chain.

Slow news week. Waste of time.
by Plate Cap
Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:15 pm
Forum: Chatterbox
Topic: Name The Beer 2.1
Replies: 581
Views: 74449

Re: Name The Beer 2.1

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by Plate Cap
Fri Apr 21, 2023 7:07 pm
Forum: Chatterbox
Topic: Name The Beer 2.1
Replies: 581
Views: 74449

Re: Name The Beer 2.1

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by Plate Cap
Thu Apr 20, 2023 10:43 am
Forum: Chatterbox
Topic: Name The Beer 2.1
Replies: 581
Views: 74449

Re: Name The Beer 2.1

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Damn. 7 minutes. A new record?
by Plate Cap
Thu Apr 20, 2023 10:29 am
Forum: Chatterbox
Topic: Name The Beer 2.1
Replies: 581
Views: 74449

Re: Name The Beer 2.1

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by Plate Cap
Wed Apr 19, 2023 2:02 pm
Forum: Engineering & DX'ing
Topic: Radio tuning question.
Replies: 3
Views: 942

Re: Radio tuning question.

Glad we could help! :lol