confession time

Lurve Spinal Tap references wherever I can find them - as did the late Jim Marshall to whom the /original/ joke was aimed.

ah, i wondered what well rounded person would pick up on that . I'll have sweet dreams tonight now......not about anyone on the group though

With regards to Spinal Tap, I think Clam Caravan was a particular favourite of mine

Anyone who has ever bought a radio for a series vehicle (me included) has done something even more pointless. ;-)

.....stick on bullet holes......

Which reminds me...... of the time I tried installing a a radio in my SIIa, I'd already built a box in plywood between the front seats of which I was particularly proud of! Then I recuperated an old radio... which ran off 24v, I thought I'd be clever and install this thing in the box with a resistor to reduce the voltage, shortly after someone told me my Landy was smoking! Needless to say there was a large hole burnt in the bottom of the box... For the 20mins it did work couldn't here the B thing anyway!

-- ...tone

D wrote ((snip))

Living as I do near a railway crossing (100yds) I get woken up on a regular basis by such bass units, when there's a few in the queue all playing different crap music it can get very annoying. Especially as I seldom drive with a radio on. Personally I think it should be part of the MOT, if the stereo, with everything connected, can be heard more than 10ft from the vehicle when it's on full volume, then it fails. It' just another form of pollution after all.

He he, I must try winding up the built in system of the DII and walking away at some point to see how much thump thump thump it produces. It can easily, and completely, drown out the road and engine noise on the motorway. OK it's a DII ES TD5 so not as noisy as a Defender or Series but it isn't quiet by modern standards.

If you want a track to give that sub a work out try track 3 or 4 on disc one the Now 63 CD. (I think, it's No.1 Daughters, honest).

It loses some of the street cred if you're pumping out Bing Crosby's Greatest Hits.....

Alex

You have to fit an amp too so you can hear it!. Fitting a sub in a diesel vehicle kind of cancels out a lot of the diesel rattle too :)

Hits? there's more than one?

in article snipped-for-privacy@news.howhill.com, Dave Liquorice at snipped-for-privacy@howhill.com wrote on 19/1/06 12:08 am:

We've banned any albums that belong to our girls in the Discovery. AC/DC, Green Day or The Air Guitar CD's are the selection at present because we have to listen to enough of their choice in the house....one upstairs with CD player, one in livivng room on another cd player and another updating ipod in the kitchen where the computer also is.

By which stage the audio gear is worth more than the vehicle in which it is mounted!

My radio/casette player in the Series One Is a "boombox " wired straght to the battery through the plugs in the dash held in with bungee strops!

Works well and I can leave it in the cab, which is currently topless, with out fear of it gettting nicked!

Purely for the sake of research you understand. It's track 3 BTW on Now 62. Something called "Don't cha" by Pussycat Dolls Feat & Busta Rymes. I've noted it in case I ever get to play with a decent full bandwidth PA system, something small with just 10kW per stack would do.

No.1 Daughter is 9 today, she is pretty sensible and the (to some extent deliberate) cheap 'n cheerful CD/Radio/Clock she has doesn't go all that loud.

No.1 Son has yet to show any interest in having his own CD machine.

Time to dig out the old issues of Practical Wireless - build summat to give them a shock? Either that or some kind of EMP cannon?

Are you in the UK? How are you driving round at this time of year in a topless landy without getting very cold and wet? I could cope with the cold but i think the wet would annoy me. I already have a wet drivers seat when i get in the landy and i have a roof on!

"Mother" wrote after "Bob Hobden" ranted

I've been thinking about that for some while, a jamming device or something to overload the system, but how to zap a unit playing a CD or MP3? :-( It's the fact that it would be me getting my collar felt that puts me off.

I can't remember anything that interesting in my old copies of PW, dating back to 1970. An excellent way to waste several hours when your should be doing something useful by marvelling at all the old adverts after finding the box in the loft.

How Much?

Why have they pasted a couple of ICs onto her nipples?

And all the valve powered army surplus stuff that was still on the market then.

Oh how I REALLY wish I'd kept all of my old PW, Everyday Electronics and other assorted, probably quite sad and geeky magazines :-(