07-12-05  07:36, Tom Walker told James Bradley about Antenna

 How do, Tom?

 JB> RJT>And now,  of course,  we've got *electronic* presets,
 JB> RJT>usually with no back
 JB> RJT>for the "memory" in there,  so if you have to
 JB> RJT>disconnect the battery for so
 JB> RJT>reason you have to put 'em in all over again.  This is progress?
 
 JB> TW> That is somethoing that puzzles me. Seems like the presents could be
 JB> TW> in NVRAM for only a modest price increase per radio.
 
 JB>Couldn't one even delay the outage by a cap to trickle power?


 TW> Actualy many years back I owned a UNIDEN Scanner Radio that did just
 TW> they. They had a Capacitor whose charge would hold the Frequency
 TW> Memory Ram for about 30 days without the radio being powered up.

I bought a NAD receiver second hand, because of the quirky, but amply
capable AM/FM tuner. It's a well designed unit, but if it looses AC, for
even a nano-second, 'POOF', and it's back to programing the thing. )-: I
then just tuned my favorite eclectic station, and left it there until the
power dropped again. (Give "ckua.com" a listen.) Why they had to
cut costs on such a minuscule component is beyond me.



... James

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