Nice, it turns out my dad's girlfriend's place is from '66 and it's a mobile! No fluorescents except a cheapie Lithonia 2XF40 LPF shoplight and the factory LPF ballast and GE-made Ace SP41s.
Nice on the blues! Grab em! And the Norelco. What endcaps does it have? And are the GEs Mainlighters?
As for scary old wiring I was in this cool old bookstore in Juneau today and there were all sorts of lights/lamps but the scary one was a 4' rapid start strip whose channel cover was missing and the wire insulation on the ballast leads was all cracked. But working! Label was gone but I bet it was a GE, I've read they're infamous for that. It was running a GE Kitchen & Bath and an Alto...
On the Juneau UAS (University of Alaska Southeast) campus there was this computer lab in a building from 2002 that was T12 with all 34w warm white Ecologic SuperSavers (Eww!) and one pair of CW 34w Altos. If you don't like 34w lamps and don't like warm white, (Read: me) it's double whammy!
Downtown, at the (probably 1960s!) tech building (woodshop, construction, diesel mechanics, welding, auto shop, etc) there were these Acme 2-lamp wraps like the Lithonia "Classmate" that were T12 and humming away happily, all running 34w lamps it appeared (Nasty greenish halophosphate cool white light). The woodshop had these cool 8ft slimline vaportights, and one of the diesel truck shops had these old MV/MH lights that took FOREVER to warmup, at least compared to my 175w yardblaster and 400w highbay-cum-world's-brightest-uplighter.
Sadly much of that is getting rennovated this summer so I think it's goobye to a lot of T12s and dated 60s/70s architecture, which I personally find cool.
I also proved I'm not the world's most ideal rock haul truck driver in a mining equipment simulator! Scraping the sides of the tunnel the whole way, someone joked I was "using it as Braille to feel my way" Then we went and looked at one out in the parking lot with most of it's paint gone and joked "Yeah Andy's been driving that thing, I can tell!"
Speaking of driving: Did I mention driving on the freeway in Alaska past chain businesses is just kinda weird for me! I feel like I'm in the "lower 48"! Juneau actually has what I'd classify as freeway, but Anchorage, where I am now, is true freeway!
And I was in this Safeway grocery store in Juneau being remodeled. There were this one remaining row of 3 F96/HO strips suspended (Albeit with Altos and probably 277v ballasts) and a bunch of disassembled cold cases with /835 Alto F40s and some Sylvanias. Broken lamps in the piles too! Had I lived in the area I would've asked the management about them. Another reason for owning a Deuce: Transporting 8ft strips/lamps in a hurry? No problem! I might add I've told a few people my "Good Gas mileage idea" like this: (Cue voice) So yeah, I'm gonna start driving soon. I dunno what I'll end up with for a vehicle. But my ultimate idea is...lemme prefeace this by saying it's ridiculous...a Deuce and a half." (End my voice). The comment I usually get is "Good luck on the gas mileage!" Then I explain how they're multifuel and can run on waste motor oil which I have LOTS of access to in my situation. So that's how I've been making people laugh, as well as myself.
Also the store was lit temporarily with those MH worklights with old troffer lenses suspended underneath them! It was hilarious!
Xmaslightguy, I busted out laughing at "If the airport baggage service doesn't demolish it" while in the airport, too!
Yeah it is missing the whole "rock" format, sans the Mike Harvey show on 800 KINY
Yeah KXLL 100.7 does RDS, stereo, and HD then. (I heard the stereo tone/quality on my headset 3M unit and saw the ST on the rental car radio, as well as the XceLLent monikeir through the RDS. Good station, surprised to see that instead of a classic rock or hard rock outlet though.
Mix 106.3 is your top 40 outlet there.
And Anchorage...where do I even start? Let's pull up Radio-Locator for a start.
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/locate?select=city&city=Anchorage&state=AK&band=Both&is_lic=Y&is_cp=Y&is_unl=Y&is_fl=Y&is_fx=Y&is_fb=Y&format=&dx=2&radius=&freq=&sort=freq&sid= Going through in the "Auto seek" mode/what it will stop on: (Compare this with Radio-Locator): 88.5, (stereo) 89.3,(mono), 90.3 (stereo), 92.1 (stereo), 92.9 (stereo but weak, going in and out of stereo),93.7 (sounds like mono), 94.7 (stereo), 95.1 (stereo) 96.3 (stereo), 96.7 (mono), 97.3 (stereo), 98.1 (mono), 98.9 (stereo), 100.5 (stereo), 101.3, (stereo)
102.1 (mono),
...and that's as far as I got before batteries died. Anyhow one thing I do indeed notice right off the bat is that all these stations process their audio a lot better/louder than any Southeast station I've heard. Kinda weird hearing a really full FM dial in Alaska!