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From: rick@rgb.com (Rick Davis)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: Re: Installation near Palo Alto
Date: 1 Jan 93 00:33:56 GMT
Organization: RGB Spectrum


Well, last year ( or the year before last, depending when you see this ) I 
worked next door to that site, and took many strolls around the property.  
We used it like an open-air private meeting room.  Anyway, the antennas are 
long-wire shortwave  style, seemingly one for each band they operate on.  
There are both slant wire-tower combinations and horizontal arrays.  They 
look to have been added at diffent times.
	The land around there is a real environnmental nightmare;  the county dump 
is just over a levee and it seems to seep into the groundwater there.  There are
many foul-smelling pools of noxious liquids dribbling around the property. 
There are huge chunks of concrete everywhere; it looks like the site was
entirely paved over at one point long ago.  Amongst this debris there are
a healthy population of rabbits and snakes, along with the ubiquitous rats
and other small rodents.  We refered to our meetings in this area as 
"snake walks", since the most successful meetings were those at which we
actually saw snakes.  
	As far as the radio emissions from the site, they are extremely strong.
We were working on a video project, and it was very difficult to  keep 
their noise  out of our circuits.  We actually had to go off-site to make 
our own noise measurements.  At the time I was practicing for my Tech
licence, so I tried to copy some of the signals at around 12 MHz but they
were going to fast for me to get anything more that the station ID. We
did have one guy who could copy some of their code from watching the
noise bursts on the scopes though.  
 
 All 4 now;
	Rick Davis
	N6ZWI ( I did pass that tech test after all)


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From: greg@redeye.EBay.Sun.COM (greg)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: Towers on Coyote Hills
Date: 31 Dec 1992 01:46:19 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: ba
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Just wondering what those towers and dishes are on top of the
big hill at Coyote Hills(near the toll both on the Dumbarton).

I ride a mt. bike up there every now and then and it looks
like they are really old.  There is also an old gun range up 
there.

Just wondering,

Greg


Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
From: dx@netcom.com (dx)
Subject: Re: New Station (650 KHz) ?
Organization: The Off Beat
Distribution: ba
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:23:54 GMT

Eric Weaver...

> That station is relatively new, i.e. came up within the last ten years
> as opposed to -say- KFBK which has been there for-bloody-ever. 

Well, then, as someone who's reasonably observant of the AM dial, why haven't
I ever listened to KST before?  Am I just getting them for the first time due
to unusually good DX conditions?  Did they change their power or signal pattern
recently?  Maybe they changed their format recently, and they were a religious
station before (which means I wouldn't have stopped to listen to them often)?

It's hard for me to believe that signal has been so strong on my Bay Area AM
dial for ten years and I never noticed it.

-dx
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From: harding@sun444.nas.nasa.gov (Steve Harding)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: Ross McGowan leaving KPIX
Date: 31 Dec 92 15:35:34 GMT
Followup-To: steveh@grafex.cupertino.ca.us
Distribution: ba
Organization: NASA/Ames Research Center

Does anyone know where he is going?

steve
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Newsgroups: ba.food
From: soo@sidc.com
Subject: Re: plug for Hatcho in Santa Clara
Organization: Seiko Instrument Dev. Corp.
Distribution: ba
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:57:11 GMT


I used to go to Hatcho with some Japnese friends a couple of years ago.
The food there was good.  However, my problem with the restaurant was that
quite a few of their dishes were not on the menu, and the waitresses there
spoke minimal English (my Japnaese friends always did the ordering).  This
is a few years ago, so things might have changed.

Someone in a earlier posting mentioned that Hatcho's dining area is too small.
If it's accomodation for a larger group that you're talking about, then they
have at least one more room in the back for private parties.

-- 
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From: charleen@net.bio.net (Charleen Bunjiovianna)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Cafe Andrea
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:18:03 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Biology

Has anyone had afternoon tea at Cafe Andrea in the Stanford Shopping
Center?  A review, please?  (They get a point right off the bat for
not calling it "high tea".)

The menu says afternoon tea is served from 3 to 6 pm and includes
the usual tea sandwiches and scone.  I might try it today, in which
case I'll post the review.

Charleen
Newsgroups: ba.food
From: pow@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Charley Pow)
Subject: Re: Evenings and Weekends : All you can eat places ??
Reply-To: pow@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 20:25:59 GMT

In article <1h7tneINNlvu@overload.lbl.gov>, prem@prem.lbl.gov (xyz) writes:
>	Hi there folks,
>
>		I and my friends are looking for good all-you-can-eat kind 
>	of joints to pig out in. Specifically those that offer an evening 
>	buffet or a WEEKEND buffet...... which rules out a lot of Indian 
>	restaurants.
>
> ...
>		Sizzler got rather boring after the first visit. But some other
>	place with their kinda deal would work fine. Price is not a major 
>	concern for me, but my pals are mostly grad students from Berkeley..... 
>	So under 8 bucks would be great.... and oh yes, a couple of them are 
>	vegis....
>
There's a Chinese restaurant in San Jose that has an all-you-can-eat lunch
buffet on weekends.  They serve dim sum (many varieties), chow mein,
vegetables, and dessert.  The food is plentiful, well-prepared, 
and a good value.  

The restaurant is the New China Station, and it is located at the corner
of Meridian and Branham in south San Jose.  As I recall, they charge 
$6.95 per person.  

Charley Pow
pow@lmsc.lockheed.com
Newsgroups: ba.food
From: becki@Ingres.COM (Rebecca E. Tants)
Subject: Looking for a place for Christmas Dinner
Reply-To: becki@squid.ingres.com (Rebecca E. Tants)
Organization: Ingres, The ASK Group
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Distribution: net
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:41:19 GMT

Can anyone point me in the direction of resteraunts that are serving dinner
Christmas Day?  Preferably in the East Bay or San Francisco, but almost
anywhere is acceptable if it's not too far from Alameda (too far being defined
as greater then 1 hour with no traffic).

Any ideas?

Becki
From: chew@macross.csd.sgi.com (Stephen Chew)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: Hong Kong FLower Lounge
Date: 30 Dec 92 01:16:13 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1hppuiINN2bf@lemans.det.dec.com>, allen@kamet.det.dec.com (Allen "b.b." Leibowitz) writes:
|> Any other opinions on the Hong Kong Flower Lounge in Milbrae?
|> It is definitely upscale, but the food is good enough to warrant
|> the drive.  I try to stop there on my way to or from the airport
|> when I get to the bay area.  Obviously it is Hong Kong style. 

I happen to like the Hong Kong Flower Lounge because of it's service
and atmosphere.  I've only been there for Dim Sum and Large Banquets
so I can't judge the every day menu but I've always had a good+ meal
there.  It is very Hong Kong in style and flavor.  I just went to 
to the flower lounge in Hong Kong a few months back and the Milbrae
one is close. (nothing beats eating in Hong Kong.)  

You ask if it warrents the drive and post from Michigan.  That's one 
hell of a commute for Chinese food. :-)  I believe it's better then any
chinese restaurant in Mt. View. (which is what started this thread)
If you are coming from S.F. there is one on Geary but I've never eaten
there.

Just down the block is a restaurant called Fook Yuen and IMHO has better
food but definitely lacks the atmosphere. (maybe a plus :-))
--
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From: richardg@cheesewiz.EBay.Sun.COM (Richard Goldstein)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re:  Chinese in Mountain View
Date: 21 Dec 1992 17:29:44 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: richardg@cheesewiz.EBay.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: cheesewiz.ebay.sun.com

I haven't seen anyone mention Tien Fu on Castro. The one in the city on
Noriega is better, but when I have a hankering for scallion pancakes
(actually I think they call them green onion pancakes) it is the place
to go. I think their other dishes are OK. Not great, but not bad
either.

Rich

From: kellee@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Kellee Noonan)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:51:57 GMT
Subject: Re: (New) Chinese in Mountain View
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: ba.food

On castro street, I like Chef Wang's for the hand pulled noodles,
especially the soup. It's a great lunch for $5.00 I like the
spicy seafood and beef noodle soup. 

I have never eaten anything but the hand pulled noodles, and
a friend said their other food is just so-so.

They don't use MSG.
________
I don't like Chef Chu's, I have only been there for large group dinners,
don't know if that matters.
_______
I love Yuen Yung. They also have a restraurant on Bark Lane in 
Cupertino (I think it is in Cup, never sure where the city lines are).
It is off DeAnza going from 280 toward Saratoga, just past Nob Hill.
Their SaCha Lamb (only in Palo Alto) is great, and their spicy eggplant with
pork is great. When I want chinese for dinner, I head to Yuen Yung's since
it is right by my house.
From: shedevil@vix.com (Anne P. Mitchell JD)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: Garlic Garlic Garlic
Date: 29 Dec 92 08:03:03 GMT
Organization: Knapp & Viola, Attys. at Law, San Mateo, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.home.vix.com

In a recent missive tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates) tells us:
*I love garlic. My fiancee loves garlic.  We eat lots of garlic.
*When we order pizza, we order 5X the amount normally added.

[editor's shears]

*P.S.  If you haven't tried the Frugal's Garlic Garlic Chicken Garlic,
*your'e really missing something...unless you cant stand garlic.

P.P.S. Try Vito's pizza with fresh garlic <drool>

P.P.S.  Supposedly eating parsley, or taking parsley capsules, will
offset the garlic.
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Newsgroups: ba.food
From: adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt)
Subject: Re: Evenings and Weekends : All you can eat places ??
Keywords: Evening/Weekend pig-out joints. NOT LUNCH BUFFETS.
Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:35:13 GMT

In article <1h7tneINNlvu@overload.lbl.gov>, prem@prem.lbl.gov (xyz) writes:
|> 		I and my friends are looking for good all-you-can-eat kind 
|> 	of joints to pig out in. Specifically those that offer an evening 
|> 	buffet or a WEEKEND buffet...... which rules out a lot of Indian 
|> 	restaurants.

There are at least 2 Indian restaurants in Mountain View that offer a
lunch buffet on weekends:  1) India Cookhouse on Castro Street and 2)
Passage to India on El Camino Real near Shoreline.

Also, it's been well over a year ago now, but I had a good lunch buffet 
that I think was on the weekend at Gaylord's Indian Restaurant in
Stanford Shopping Center.

|> 	So under 8 bucks would be great....

Passage to India is $4.99 and India Cookhouse is $5.99.  I think Gaylord's
was $8.99.

There are several buffet chinese food places around the area.  One just
opened a few months ago on Castro Street in Mountain View.  I don't
remember its name, but it's across from Double Rainbow near the train
tracks.

There are also things like the Fresh Choice salad bar chain for good
non-indian buffet eating.  In addtition to their great salad bar, they
also usually offer 3 or 4 soups, 2 kinds of pasta, various freshly-baked
breads, fruit, soft-serve ice cream, and other dessert-type items.

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From: mlw@cisco.com (Monica Waldman)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: Evenings and Weekends : All you can eat places ??
Date: 28 Dec 1992 06:34:38 GMT
Organization: ()
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: lager.cisco.com
Keywords: growdy to the max

In article <1992Dec25.202835.15292@ads.com> charleen@ADS.COM (Charleen Bunjiovianna) writes:
>In article <1992Dec23.013513.13276@ntmtv> adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt) writes:
>>There are at least 2 Indian restaurants in Mountain View that offer a
>>lunch buffet on weekends:  1) India Cookhouse on Castro Street and [...]
>India Cookhouse continues to be a wonderful place to stop and fill  

your weekly quota of roach sitings.

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From: DaPete@cup.portal.com (Pete o Wilkinson)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: ...a call for great pot stickers!
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 09:19:07 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

...so I was reading all the fine reviews of the various Chinese (and like) 
resturants in the MV/PA area and I was wondering:

Where are the BEST pot stickers `round here?

Maybe a top 3 or 5 would be a better thread...

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From: roger@genie.UUCP (Roger H. Scott)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re:  Chinese in Mountain View
Date: 20 Dec 92 17:28:31 GMT
Reply-To: roger@genie.UUCP (Roger H. Scott)
Organization: proCASE Corporation, Santa Clara, CA

In article <1992Dec17.232428.28242@leland.Stanford.EDU> jojo@leland.Stanford.EDU (Joanne Spetz) writes:
>Which places on Castro are good?  

I've been supporting the restaurant business along Castro for 10 years now,
so here's one opinion:

	House of Yee: varies from B up to A-; very good whole fish dishes;
	 closes relatively early in the evening; no clear regional affiliation
	 (i.e., Mandarin, Cantonese, etc.) that my round-eyes can discern
	
	Fu Lam Mum (I *think* that's right): very clearly a Hong Kong
	 (Cantonese) style seafood restaurant; within this domain A- to A;
	 about the best straightforward seafood dishes I've had in the South
	 Bay, at least
	
	Szechuan Garden: somewhat Westernized stuff (i.e., closer to American
	 notions of some Chinese dishes rather than Chinese), but generally
	 quite good; B to B+; good appetizers, excellent brocolli with garlic
	 sauce
	
	Kirin: Cantonese seafood plus inferior versions of Mandarin dishes
	 for the round-eyes; seafood - B+ to A-, others - C+ to B; open until
	 midnight seven days a week (sometimes making it a *very* attactive
	 option!); draws a very large Asian crowd late at night, especially on
	 Sundays
	
	others: from either personal experience, or hear-say, most of the
	 other Chinese places are reminiscent of the dreadful sorts of places
	 that our parents used to take us to when we were kids (for those of
	 us who aren't Chinese [or were very unlucky!])
From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:58:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Chines on Castro
Organization: HP LOVECRAFT DIVISION
Newsgroups: ba.food

>(Stephen Chew) 
>4) Queen House - This is very authentic Taiwanese cuisine. (that from a
>	non-taiwanese)  You have to know what to order.  Try the pork chop
>	rice or pork chop noodle soup.  Don't get the "westernized" food and
>	you'll enjoy.

When you can get hot and sour and wonton soup at any Chinese restaurant
you know that the restaurants have a full menu for the benefit of the
"round eyes" who think all Chinese food look alike. :-) 

The advice about you have to know what to order applies to any 
Chinese restaurant. Find out the house specialties and ignore
the rest of the menu. If the house specialties are bad, THEN
you can say it is a bad Chinese restaurant.

Saying a Cantonese restaurant is bad because they make lousy
hot and sour soup is like saying an Italian restaurant is lousy
because their sauerbraut was awful. Yet people here have said
that they judge Cantonese restaurants by their hot and sour soup.

			   Danny Low
    "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
	   Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
	     HP CPCD   dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com

Newsgroups: ba.food
From: jmm@s1.gov (Jeff Marsh)
Subject: Re: whole fish wanted
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Livermore CA
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:52:15 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.011721.16211@lucid.com> sap@lucid.com (Synthia Petroka) writes:
>I'm looking for a fish market between San Jose and Menlo Park that sells whole
>fish.  I've been to a few and they mostly carry fillets or whole trout.  I'd
>like something a little more interesting than trout.  Big scales and fancy
>fins are a plus! 
>

Although never been there myself, Race Street Fish & Poultry is supposed to be one of the best sources for seafood in the South Bay.  There are at least two locations.  The original on Race Street, and another on Blossom Hill, both in SJ.
Newsgroups: ba.food
From: schutt@netcom.com (David G. Schutt)
Subject: Re: A great place to eat
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:59:41 GMT

cedars@mtliban.Corp.Sun.COM (Fixed Assets - Corp. Finance) writes:

> This is for those of you who are looking for a good Italian restaurant
> in the South Bay.   Cafe Marcella is celebarating their first 
> successful year in the restaurnat business.

> If you do go, or have already been there, I will be interested to hear
> your critique.

I heard about it on ba.food and now it's my favorite restaurant in the
South Bay. I guess their roast chicken is the thing I like best, but
I always like to see what their special is that day.

BTW, Cafe Marcella is in Los Gatos. It's in a rather obscure location.
368 Village Lane should be called Village Alley. I think the easiest
way to get there from Hiway 17 is to turn left at Bakers Square (University
Ave) and go thru the Bakers Square parking lot into the big parking
lot that is right in back of Cafe Marcella.

The atmosphere there is very warm, but the beautiful hardwood floor and
the hard surfaces on the walls and ceiling make it kind of noisy when
it's crowded. It would be nice to see some area rugs on the floor, but
I guess that could get messsssy.

I usually call for reservations (408) 354-8006, and they always seem to
remember my name when I show up!

Try it,
Dave
Newsgroups: ba.food
From: janet@ntmtv.UUCP (Janet Jakstys)
Subject: Re: (New) Chinese in Mountain View
Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:59:12 GMT

Boy...you guys are a hard crowd!  :)
I didn't think the Chinese restaurants on Castro were that bad.

Just one block east of Castro on Dana, (I think) is Lotus Garden.
I like their Wor Mein.  Don't order Wor WonTon Mein; the wontons
are tasteless.  And we ask them to make Prawns Say Jupe (that's how you pronounce it, definately not how you spell it!) over fun noodles.  
Pretty good.  I like their pot stickers too.

We go to Kirin for Pepper Salted Prawns, kinda french fried prawns,
salty and spicey, with onions, usually not too oily.  Great with 
white rice.  They've changed their decore so at least it *looks* nicer.

I'll put in another vote for Hunan Gourmet.  I've only been there for
dinner but it was very good.  We had this green bean dish with crumbled
ground pork in it and something else that made it salty all in some sort of
brown sauce.  It was memorable.  I realize the name of the dish would help,
sorry.  :)

And we go to Hong Kong Bakery for Dim Sum (take-out).  Great Hau-Gau,
Yu-Chi Gau, and baked BBQ pork buns

So.. two more questions...

If Castro chinese is soooo baaaad, where *are* there good chinese 
restaurants in the vicinity?

And speaking of tasteless wontons, where can I get taste*ful* wontons?
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Newsgroups: ba.food
From: altinbay@netcom.com (John Altinbay)
Subject: Re: plug for Hatcho in Santa Clara
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:36:31 GMT

In article <BzonrB.279@sidc.com> soo@sidc.com writes:
>
>Someone in a earlier posting mentioned that Hatcho's dining area is too small.
>If it's accomodation for a larger group that you're talking about, then they
>have at least one more room in the back for private parties.
>


No, I was talking about how you are a maximum of 2 tables away from
whoever decides to smoke.  It's bad enough in places that are basically
one room, but fairly large - when it's this small, it just doesn't work.


-- 
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From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: Garlic Garlic Garlic
Date: 29 Dec 1992 15:57:24 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
NNTP-Posting-Host: zion.berkeley.edu


>P.P.S.  Supposedly eating parsley, or taking parsley capsules, will
>offset the garlic.

Okay, I'll bite.

Why do you want to "offset the garlic"?  This seems
counterintuitive...

Steve
From: skchin@jalapeno.engr.ucdavis.edu (Mystic)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: Hong Kong FLower Lounge
Date: 30 Dec 92 05:09:44 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: College of Engineering - University of California - Davis

In article <1992Dec30.011613.4447@news.csd.sgi.com> chew@macross.csd.sgi.com (Stephen Chew) writes:
>
>Just down the block is a restaurant called Fook Yuen and IMHO has better
>food but definitely lacks the atmosphere. (maybe a plus :-))

I agree.  Fook Yuen is much better.  They use quality ingredients
  and the food tastes great.  It does lack the atmosphere that HKFL
  has...in my opinion, the lights are turned on too bright... 

One of the best days to go is on Friday.  They have these daily
  specials (in a separate little menu) and Friday's special is prawns...
  definitely a good choice. 


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From: chris@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Chris Bostak)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:24:19 GMT
Subject: REVIEW: Bangkok Cuisine
Organization: HP Stanford Park - Palo Alto, CA