I was a bioengineer, took a lot of EE classes and violin. Started out better than most of the violinists, but only practiced 3 hours a day. The dedicated students practiced 6 hours a day. At the end of the year I was no longer a good violinist compared to my classmates. Bummer! That was too much work for me. Worked at Motorola, got bored, went to dental school and got bored my senior year, then started med school in Chicago in the fall and they told me I had to get a degree of some kind. Went to summer school, finished the dental school course I did not understand, occlusion. Had to go to the dean and ask him what to do. He put me back into the college of LAS, had to take genetics and field botany to get a biology degree. I also took ballroom dance since I was a graduating senior, gymnastics, and tennis. Admired all the pretty girls, but had to study. Dropped tennis, gymnastics, and ballroom dance, but studied genetics and field botany pretty hard, and then started med school in the fall. Never been bored since. However 40 hours class and 40 hours of study, and the years go by very quickly.
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Just looked up that JBL SA600. Looks like my Harman Kardon Citation 11 preamp that I used in 3rd year med school. That was hooked up to a Sony TA3200F amp if I recall correctly. I may have had that hooked up to Advents or AR3 speakers, I do not remember that was a long time ago. I did not know that WPGU broadcasted from FAR. That was on the upper end of the dial, 107.1 if I recall. They were always advertising on campus. I used to hang out at a pizza place on Wright street that had a big hot air balloon for advertising, Garcia's pizza if I recall. That Dual 1019 is a damn fine turntable. And the KLH6 speakers are similar to the Advent Loudspeaker.
I think the Scott 312D is the factory version of the Scott LT112B kit with some improvements. I still have an issue and have to bang on the top of it to bring back the intermittent R channel. After I finish the belts on the riding mower, there may be time to really diagnose it. But tapping with a pencil with a big rubber eraser and using freeze spray did not elucidate the source of the intermittent channel. May have to go over it with a magnifying lens and bright light to see a bad solder trace.
how many central illinois stations could you get with that KLH18?
rose record must have been close to
garcias pizza in the pan
Was the Rose records across the street from everitt labs, the EE laboratory building? I honestly do not remember Rose records?
Small world! I lived in 803 Oglesby. I think Rose Records was gone by 1974 when I showed up in Champaign. Garcia's Pizza was owned by two brothers with a hot-air balloon that looked like a tomato; they were on the southwest corner of Wright and Green, kitty-corner from the EE building.
I remember one summer in college working at Burger King for $1.70 per hour. My Dad was astonished when I spent $70 on a new turntable at Pacific Stereo
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I remember one summer in college working at Burger King for $1.70 per hour. My Dad was astonished when I spent $70 on a new turntable at Pacific Stereo
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I purchased my first system at Pacific Stereo in 1976. I almost accepted a job at Brown's fried chicken at 1.85 per hour. My mom said no you will burn your hands on the fryer. So after reading a book on bicycles, I started at 3.00 or 3.50 per hour at Peurye's bike shop. If you are 14 years my senior the law of 72s says that 1.70 per hour is 3.40 per hour after inflation. But if I worked more than 40 hours a week, that was 6 bucks per hour, and he did not charge me for medicare on the time and a half.Small world! I lived in 803 Oglesby. I think Rose Records was gone by 1974 when I showed up in Champaign. Garcia's Pizza was owned by two brothers with a hot-air balloon that looked like a tomato; they were on the southwest corner of Wright and Green, kitty-corner from the EE building.
I remember one summer in college working at Burger King for $1.70 per hour. My Dad was astonished when I spent $70 on a new turntable at Pacific Stereo
My system at Pacific Stereo was a BIC 940 turntable with a Shure 91ED cartridge with Quadraflex ST11 speakers and a Pioneer SX737 receiver. I was planning on a Pioneer SX636, but the salesman gave me a package deal that I could not refuse. I still use a Pioneer SX535 as my bench receiver since it is so reliable.
Scott LT112B finally found the problem, a cracked trace on the bottom of the board connecting the MPX board to the output board! The cracked/broken trace was on the output board and barely visible. Only found the problem after determining every single one of the components were good, then went to the signal injector/signal tracer method which cinched the diagnosis! Man does this tuner sound good.
Fullerton and Central Aves, did you mean fullerton ave and central park avenue
never mind I found central ave and it is like 5600 W Fullerton Ave in chicago
Interesting that you looked. You could see Downtown Chicago from the roof of our two story house. Back in college, around 1967, I had some decent FM and UHF antennas on the roof. On Saturdays, I worked for Admiral Radio in their parts department. They also had a CATV Division and I used to borrow Ch 22 amplifiers to watch Bears home games from South Bend. A little snowy but fun. We had a crowd over at our house. FM in Chicago was wonderful back then.
I thought WEFM (99.5) went away long ago. They were owned by Zenith and used as a test and demonstration station. Back in the 60's I remember WKFM and WFMF. Both played light classical and easy listening music. The original elevator music. My cousin bought a Zenith Royal 2000, a really large AM-FM portable in about 1960. (Reputed to be the first FM portable). He mentioned back then that half the FM band in Chicago was empty. What is amazing is that WXRT is still around in close to their original format.
My LT-112B had transistors in the IF strip, not integrated circuits. I haven't seen a photo of an LT-112B with ICs, but it would not surprise me if there are some late ones out there. The June 1968 issue of Popular Mechanics, page 169, shows a LT-112B-1 and says it has an integrated circuit IF strip.
My LT-112B was a good tuner, but my late 312C has better reception.
Backmd, if your LT-112B has ICs, what is its serial number?
My LT-112B was a good tuner, but my late 312C has better reception.
Backmd, if your LT-112B has ICs, what is its serial number?
Sorry that obviously was not politically correct.