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micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>: Jul 25 06:04AM -0400 When a cellphone is a hotspot and it streams web-radio to a real radio (in this case the car radio) is there any feedback from the radio to the cellphone or the app that is running? Would the app know if I had turned the radio off, or changed input so it was no longer detecting and playing the cellphone signal?   It seems very unlikely to me, but I can't keep up with new advances in tech. And it would account for what seems to be happening.   Specifically, I listen to CNN or MSNBC on the Tunein app and it streams, is that the right word, through the car radio. The free version of Tunein is free but you pay by having to listen to mannnny commercials.   One in particular annoys me. It's a commercial for Aramco. A feel-good ad using a woman's mellifluous voice, talking in cliches about the future, etc. They don't mention its full name, Saudi Aramco, or that its majority owner is Saudi Arabia. SA seems to have decided it wants to improve its image, after the murder of Adnan Khashoggi and allegations of war crimes in Yemen, and they seem to be starting with Aramco.   Tunein has a practice of running the same commercial over and over and over, several times an hour all day long. If one listens to broadcast tv or radio, different programs have their own set of commericals, so they change as the day goes on, and it's not annoying, but Tunein plays the same ones all the time. And in many cases it plays the same one several times an hour. The Aramco commercial runs 5 or 6 times an hour. And it's part of a series of ads that take 3 or 4 minutes, maybe longer.   So in the car, I used to change to FM while waiting for the ads to end, and then I'd forget and listen to FM for 10 or 20 minutes, and when I went back to Tunein, it is almost always in the middle of another Aramco commercial. Yesterday this happened 4 times in a row, one break and then another 4 times.   So now I'm starting to wonder if it could be the same commercial, that was on pause while I was listening to FM??? Or while the radio was off altogether?? Is that possible? That the app knew the signal was not beling played through the radio? Finally I've taken to turning down the volume so I don't hear it. The app certainly doesn't know ablut that, and it seems to work, or must it be my imagination?

Bertrand Sindri <bertrand.sindri@yahoo.com>: Jul 25 01:30PM > streams, is that the right word, through the car radio. The free > version of Tunein is free but you pay by having to listen to mannnny > commercials.   The overload of commercials, coupled with the fact that every FM radio station wants to try to recreate a Howard Stern Jr by having their variant talk all morning (when they are not otherwise running commercials) during the commute hours is why I now *only* play pre-recorded, commercial free sound files from my phone over my car radio. No commercials, ever, and no talking DJ's either.   > when I went back to Tunein, it is almost always in the middle of > another Aramco commercial. Yesterday this happened 4 times in a row, > one break and then another 4 times.   This is not at all surprising. They cut to commercial breaks so frequently that your probability of randomly switching back, and being in the middle of a commercial break becomes quite high. You'll see the same effect when channel jumping around on TV -- you more often than not jump into a commercial break on channel X when switching away from channel Y.   > So now I'm starting to wonder if it could be the same commercial, > that was on pause while I was listening to FM???   Unlikely. It is much more probable that you were just unlucky and picked the right delay time to return such that you were in the middle of a commercial. If you were to time the content vs. commercials one day you'd likely find you get a 2-3 minute commercial break every 4-5 minutes. It is not hard to end up returing during each of those 2-3 minute slots, given how often they likely occur.

Jon Foster <foster.jon.m@gmail.com>: Jul 24 11:55PM -0700 Picked up a portable hard drive. Header ripped off flopping around. Can this be reattached, easily, by someone skilled in this sort of thing or is it a "big deal"? Otherwise, my portable harddrive aint so portable anymore. TIA GT

abrsvc <dansabrservices@yahoo.com>: Jul 25 05:38AM -0700 On Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 2:55:24 AM UTC-4, Jon Foster wrote: > Picked up a portable hard drive. Header ripped off flopping around. Can this be reattached, easily, by someone skilled in this sort of thing or is it a "big deal"? Otherwise, my portable harddrive aint so portable anymore. > TIA GT Yes it is possible to repair this. The caution is that if the traces were also damaged, it may be tricky to reattach them. It is possible, but may take some time. I have done these in the past successfully. Dan

Michael Terrell <terrell.michael.a@gmail.com>: Jul 24 05:11PM -0700 On Sunday, July 23, 2023 at 11:50:44 PM UTC-4, Phil Hobbs wrote:   > If none of the leads is connected to the case, it could be something > less common, such as a dual-gate FET. I used to use a lot of 3N201s in > that package.   I used to replace a lot of 40763 dual gate Field Effect transistors in garage door openers. I was doing the for a friend with a garage door business as a sideline. A nice part, but they didn't like nearby lightning strikes.

whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>: Jul 24 06:24PM -0700 On Sunday, July 23, 2023 at 4:04:23 PM UTC-7, Dave McGuire wrote: > TO-72 package (TO-18 with four leads), in an old Victoreen radiation > survey meter. The number is "ITS 30487". It's also marked "7736" which > I assume is a date code.   Hard to be sure, but Siliconix was making PFET junction FET discretes with that package, like this one   [archiveorg bitsavers_siliconixdixLowPowerDiscretesDataBook_42980376 width=560 height=384 frameborder=0 webkitallowfullscreen=true mozallowfullscreen=true]   see page 120, 2N4867 series   If that's your item, pin 4 is the case (just a shield, not diode-connected to anything). There might be a S embossed on the can...

Michael Terrell <terrell.michael.a@gmail.com>: Jul 24 05:13PM -0700 On Sunday, July 16, 2023 at 9:59:06 PM UTC-4, Nick Agostini wrote: > Just on my own network.   > I have a normal Wi-Fi router.   > Any suggestions?   Some people use old cell phones and an app to view the video.

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