Resurrecting the Garage Tone

It took me a while a find a replacement for the DC power jack on this Garage Tone Oil Can Phaser pedal. I was fixing this one for a bandmate and the original connector had been shattered into pieces by his own repair attempt. 

It looked like an easy fix, but my searches for part number information in all the usual places went nowhere. I needed an actual part number for this DC jack because it is panel mounted, so the shape and dimensions for its plastic housing, including its panel mounting channel, needed to be pretty close.

I ended up going on a bit of a visual search for a replacement and luckily, managed to find just the right fit after a few tries, so for anyone with a similar issue with old GarageTone pedals, let me share that this cheap Uxcell DC-015 5.5mmx2.1mm DC Power Jack I found in Amazon does the trick and fits almost perfectly in the 11x14mm hole in the pedal (1mm thick) case. You are welcome.

Up-to-date DTV scan tables for USA/Canada, included Bay Area specific ones

 
I recently submitted changes to the USA/Canada DTV scan tables at [LinuxTV], included Bay Area-specific updates. These new tables have been merged now (thanks Mauro Carvalho), and should help your scans take less time and waste less energy in the process :).

The updates were long due and include:

•  Use of latest FCC data
•  Remove spectrum decommissioned in 2020
•  Use "canonical" center frequencies (lower edge + 3MHz) instead of adding the +28.615kHz offset used in USA/Canada till the Analog Low Power TV Service (LPTV)] sunset of July 2021
    

Download and use the new tables if you are trying to produce a channel configuration file to follow DTV instructions for GStreamer and other Linux DTV programs. Like the ones I posted here some time ago.