u/Jazzkidscoins

I have the strangest thing going on right now. One of the guys in my band is having issues with his tone enhancers. He just got some new kinnard Evolution reeds and one of them will not work if the tone enhancer is in the stock. No matter where you put the bridle, even all the way open, the reed cuts out almost immediately. When we pull the enhancer out everything works just fine. The problem is he would like the use the enhancers because it makes things a little easier to play.

anyone have any ideas what might be causing this?

Edit: last night at band practice a couple of us spent some time on this issue. It turns out the underlying issue was moisture.

We took all the enhancers out, calibrated the drones and thought he was good to go. After about 20 minutes his drones started to shut off again. I did the whole dollar bill under the drone tongue and that fixed the problem.

He’s going to ditch the tone enhancers and start looking for a better moisture control system

I do a lot of golf scrambles where they pay me to play while people are warming up and getting ready, background noise really. I usually just play the same tunes each time. I was looking for some more simple marches and retreats or whatnot to play. Any suggestions?

A smaller band I like just announced a large nationwide tour with something like 30 stops. There has to be costs involved with getting it started like travel and food and lodging, moving equipment around, heck just money to live. I know they will make money from ticket sales but it’s not like they are playing arenas mostly smaller clubs and venues.

This may seem like a stupid question. I'm going through my awards and competencies in auxdata to order a set of ribbons from ultrathin. I was looking at the available ribbons and saw the operations program ribbon. Im an aux boat crew crewmember so does this mean I can wear this ribbon? I know this is in the auxman but I can't find a copy, all the links on the auxiliary website give a 404 error.

I’ve been told this both ways. I qualified as a VE and a program visitor, so I got the ribbon and the star. I no longer have that qualification so am I still allowed to wear the ribbon and star? Is there somewhere in auxman I can point to and say “look here” when other people question me? I’ve always thought once you earn the ribbon you keep the ribbon but I could be wrong here. There is this one guy in my flotilla who likes to try and tell everyone what they are doing wrong (whether he is right or not) and I’d just like to be able to shut him up about this

I feel that this should be an easy yes but im not sure. The question is, do the authors signing at a con usually bring books to sell/sign or do you need to bring your own?

John Scalzi will be at tampacomicon and I really want to get a book signed I just don’t know if I should buy one to bring or just hope he has some to sell?

A couple of years ago I lost my AuxPA 3 certification when I got sick and couldn’t keep up with the hours. I’m back in a good space and I’m wondering if anyone knows if there is a process to get recertification? Do I have to start from scratch or do I just have to re-do the oral board or something in between? Anyone know?

I just feel like crying, all the time. Everything even slightly emotional makes me start to choke up. Im in a rough spot right now. There is a better than even chance I have cancer. Next week is filled with Doctors appts, tests, and MRI's then a biopsy the week after. I thought I was doing OK but this whole everything makes me want to cry seems to suggest otherwise. I"m probably depressed. It might not be BP related, I guess I kind of have a reason to be down right now.

I'm kind of leaning on the whole just cry and let it out, I have a day alone tomorrow so the perfect time, but I am worried once I start I might not be able to stop. So what's the better option, holding it in and hoping for the best or just letting it all out and seeing where it goes?

So I was on Facebook and I saw a reel from Chris Apps Reeds showing him oiling his pipes. It looks like he coated them in oil then wrapped them in cling wrap and let them sit, I think he said they sat for 3 months. I have a set from the 50s and assume I should probably at least oil them at some point. I’m in south Florida so the humidity is pretty high year round so it’s not like I have to worry about cold dry air drying anything out. The stupid thing is I’ve been playing the pipes for 34 years and no one has ever explained this to me.

So, do I need to oil them and if so, what’s the best way to do it?

Are there any guidelines written out there as to wearing the AUXMu Aiguillette? Ive heard that you can wear it all the time, you can only wear it when performing, you can wear it with the SDB, you can't wear it with the SDB, you can only get it through national, you can buy your own, you wear the button loop cord, you wear the pinned cord... so clearly I'm getting conflicting information from multiple sources. Surely it has to be written down somewhere??

This is a stupid question and I should know or at least be able to find the answer but i just can’t find the info. I got a new SDB jacket and need to put the shield on the sleeve. What is the distance from the bottom of the sleeve to the shield? I want to say 2 inches for some reason but I can’t find anything in auxman

I build a robot a while ago and during a recent upgrade of some of the hardware I must have shorted out the L298N board because one side will only turn the wheels in one direction. I tested the code on another L298N that I have and the wheels turn in both directions so I'm assuming the one in the robot is bad.

I have a choice now. I could stick the spare L298N in and just go with that. I also have several DRV8833 that were given to me. To get the 4 wheel drive I would need to use 2 of them but it's run by a Arduino mega board so PWM pins are not an issue.

I guess my question is, is there a benefit to using one over the other? the programming I can handle but the hardware is always a guess for me. My thought is that the L298N has a huge heat sink on it so it must be doing something energy wise to need to dissipate a lot of heat

So this morning I had some free time so I went to the course closest to me, a 9 hole course, and played 8 of the holes. I played on my own so I didn’t feel self conscious and I skipped a hole over water because there was no way my disc was clearing it. I played with just putters, 3 different ones. It was encouraging because each time I threw the disc it went a little farther, was less wobbly. By the end I was only throwing them maybe 100-120 feet but with no wobble. On the holes I played I basically double bogeyed all of them except the 1st one which I got 7 on (par 3).

All in all, a good time was had, I’ll do it again next week and see how things go

Is anyone else having an issue with keeping their ABRP enode connection active? For my car it seems completely random. I disconnect and reconnect and it doesn’t work then I’ll be driving and it will connect for a minute or two then disconnect. Is it user error on my part?