I just just found out about this so sorry if this is common knowledge just wanted to share. Here's a playlist i found on youtube https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-xRHKdJjPTiIV6pFQCgzvqSGG8L-gvhj.
I've watched a lot of retro sci-fi content, and I'm struggling to find more, i'm sure there are some gems out there that I've missed. Can you recommend some retro sci-fi content?
So far my best favorites: Twilight Zone (1959), X minus One (Old time Radio Show - 1955), Star Trek(1966), and stories of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and other old sci-fi writers.
My favorite element of sci-fi is mystery/unknown(like: what happened here? Where is everybody?), also psychological thriller/mind games(like: who is the murderer or who is the alien monster from outer space). My most favorite episode from Twilight Zone is "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"(it has it all, mystery and thriller).
So recently I just started playing 76 and I'm loving Julie as the host of Appalachia Radio.
So what about you guys?
I have been subscribed to the radio series podcast feed for some time, but haven’t had time to listen to it until today. I noticed the first episode (Fit the First) starts off with a different voice announcing it as “The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, Primary Phase.”
I was exposed to Hitchhiker’s around 1982 through a showing of the TV series on PBS in America. Thanks to a 7th grade classmate, I learned there were three books as well, which I read. A few years later, I was finally able to catch some of the original radio series broadcast on a Houston radio station.
I am aware modern series have been produced since the original two, based on the remaining books. They were given names such as The Tertiary Phase, The Quandary Phase and The Quintessential Phase. I did not realize until today that they retronamed the original series as well as Primary and Secondary.
Now that I know they have made at least changes to the introduction audio to use these titles, I wanted to ask if there were other revisions/changes/edits/enhancements made to the original two radio series.
Cheers.
EDIT: Link to feed from iTunes (not sure where the source feed is) - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/id1542254289
Just had to get that off my chest. I can sit down again now.
A YouTube series about a mock radio show in a small town which includes anecdotes/storys about the inhabitants of the town along with music.
I listened to it recently and there was some interesting backstory for the droids, Leia (including scenes on Alderaan with her father) and Han, and more scenes with Luke on Tatooine, including seeing the Star Destroyer battle in the sky (although from what I could tell it’s not canonical anymore.)
Really enjoyed it. I wonder if Disney might invest in new audio adventures for Star Wars, given the podcast explosion of recent years.
Since the BBC radio series for the Hobbit came out while J.R.R. Tolkien was still alive, is it known how he felt about that adaption?
Worth a look on Spotify if you get the chance and it’s by Gabriel Gatehouse.
Don't get me wrong, I love Sonic but for me both of the Jet Set Radio games are in my top 5 favourite games of all time and Jet Set Radio Future being my all time favourite video game and they're both so good that the just barley beat out a much bigger and more popular franchise in my opinion
SJV & LA-based storytelling duo, Edgar Aguilasocho (aka “Eddy Eagles”) and Adam De León, have slowly assembled the puzzle pieces of this rock’n’art project for over a decade. For Eddy, a drive to conduct this sort-of exorcism through storytelling led him to the seedier reaches of the web in search of a collaborator. Searching for Sancho he found Adam.
Hey Reddit! I'm Eddy. Here to share some art and music. Ten years ago, I was reeling from the mother of all breakups. My co-writer, Adam, walked away from a major health scare with a new lease on life in his pocket. The internet brought us together (in part bonding over our shared love of Queens of the Stone Age and The Mars Volta), and now we're using the internet to share what we've been putting together.
On May 10, 2020, the global lockdown finally gave us the time to finish our first full-length album, Valentine. The album was created in collaboration with graphic artist, Visual Renegade. Through the music of RLM and the art of Visual Renegade, Valentine is volume one of an adventure set in the Mexican underworld, Mictlán, and tells the story of a wannabe Don Quixote with his counterfeit Sancho as they tear through Mictlán in search of their missing Dulcinea.
Here's a link to the music and art of Valentine - https://rlm.fm/valentine-story / https://rlm.fm/valentine-sounds. The album is also available for streaming on all major platforms.
We're about midway through writing and recording our follow-up, Versus, with art done by a collaborator found here on r/isometric. Hoping this community can give us a few listens for motivation as we finish putting together this crazy elaborate sequel. Rock on!
Artists on heavy rotation during RLM songwriting: QOTSA, TMV, Fugazi, The White Stripes, TOOL, DFA1979, Bowie, and AC/DC.
For my radio appearance this week and on our Skewedcast; I discuss the recent Predator and Alien television series news. If you are on a mobile device simply click view full site to see the audio players and enjoy. I also talk about the recent convention cancellations.
Radio segment from KIS FM
Skewedcast
I know this isn't KF related but it's KF adjacent so I hope it's cool to recommend another podcast. I haven't finished the series, but so far Alex turns up in episodes 3 & 4.
I realize this is more a question about CB radios, but hopefully its appropriate to ask here.
I recently bought and installed a Cobra 19 DX IV to put in my car. I bought a generic $30 18 inch antenna from Cobra, and stuck it to the center of the trunk of my sedan. However, I've noticed that I rarely ever hear anyone, and it's usually just static. Using context clues, it sounds like the other drivers I hear are usually within 500 to 1000 feet of me. For example, I recently hear a trucker announce that "the right lane is closed", and hit the point where I could see the lane closure about 500 feet later.
I should also note that the only time I've ever gotten someone to confirm they could hear me was when I was at an intersection with a semi truck 100 feet away. He told me he could hear me clearly. I've asked dozens of other times on the freeway and never gotten a response. It seems like the radio is transmitting properly, but just not particularly far.
My question is, would a $150 62 inch Wilson 1000 series antenna give me noticeably better range? I'm not looking for something crazy, but I definitely want to be able to hear and transmit over a mile on the freeway.
All transistor radio circuits (not crystal) on the internet seem to use an antenna and parallel LC circuit. Why does no one use series LC circuits to select stations?
To my knowledge, series LC circuits at resonance let maximum current flow at resonant frequency; BJTs allow a current through their base control current from collector to emitter (assuming CE amp). Therefore, a higher base current could lead to greater amplification.
Experimentally, I have built the following schematic on a breadboard. I get much more audio output using antenna + series LC vs antenna + parallel LC.
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Are other factors being considered for the choice to use parallel LC circuits in transistor radios?
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