Well 50hz is supposed to be safer, but 60hz is better for clocks!!!
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That’s why we invented quarz clocks.
Europeans want to be safe and punctual 
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Well, sonny, a lot was going on for a very looooong time………………..
I wonder where the first power grid was developed?
But in keeping with the original intent, power grid in my part of the US is VERY reliable, in fact, Canada shares our grid. 
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Then you must not live in the lumber country in central Maine. Back in the ‘80s, my company (Motorola) sold a warning siren control system to a major lumber company. There were sirens below each dam that was generating power for their mill operations. The purpose of the sirens was to warn campers below the dams that a flood was imminent and they should get the hell out of Dodge (sold and installed AFTER some campers were killed in a flood).
The problem was that the master siren control system at the mill couldn’t communicate via radio with any of the remote siren controllers. The local techs and application engineers in Chicago couldn’t figure it out, so I got the call. It turned out that back in the early 1900’s, GE was convinced that the next major innovation in power generation was 40 Hz. So, all of the dams generated 40 Hz AC for the huge debarking machines (each way bigger than a semi truck trailer). That didn’t sound too bad until I discovered that it was 40 Hz SQUARE WAVE power. I put a scope on the power feed to the control room and the 2nd and 3rd harmonics of 40 Hz were bigger than the 40 Hz main feed. Those harmonics were flooding the little 60 Hz power converter that was powering the master controller. Once I acquired and installed a very expensive power line filter in front of my controller, the system worked as designed.
That’s the only time in my life that I encountered 40 Hz. I bet that, 40+ years later, they’re still using 40 Hz to drive those debarkers.
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I’ve put the Katana Go on my Christmas list as my amp is a Boss Katana Bass 210. This way I’ll be able to share tone library files between them and while the app is separate, the UI is pretty similar.
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Amazing structure; I toured it as a kid when it just had the two main turbines and the third that runs bawards overnight to pump water up to Banks Lake, which literally banks the unused energy to irrigate Eastern Washingon, and runs foward staring early morning to meet waking power demand. Unfortunately they didn’t film the construction of the new turbines in 1970’s. You clearly understand process control better than most. Check out this hydro turbine that was put into auto (PID) control with an untuned loop. Absolutely frightening!
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Great choice! I have a predecessor and have been playing it for years and years.
Welcome to the forum, @Gpdojo !
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Whooooaaaw! That’s an impressive video!
Surely, they used Moscowrola technology, not Motorola
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Maybe. Maybe not. Before Motorola, I worked for a major oil company in the group that designed and manufactured solar-powered telemetry systems. When a Siberian-based oil and gas company wanted my product, they couldn’t buy American-made products, so I worked out a deal with a company outside of Calgary to sell the equipment after importing it from us and sticking a “Made in Canada” label on every single item. This was in the early ‘80s, after the accident, so you’re probably correct. 
And very funny English word play from a German-, English- and French (?)- speaking Dutchman.
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Maybe I wasn’t though.
The father of my girlfriend worked and lived in Moscow at that time (being East German), in “trade”…
He told me that quite some effort went into “obtaining” Western technology, either to use it … or to copy it. So Moscowrola might have been Motorola all along?
On the other hand he told me that not all copied technology turned out to be 100% copies, cause of inferior materials, really bad processes and … corruption galore!
Great examples are:
The Moscowrola Concorde
The Moscowrola Space Shuttle
The Moscowrola Apple MacIntosh (spot the difference?)
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I’m not going to say how, but we managed to get our hands on some Russian-built MSDOS computers. They worked well enough, but the kludges we found inside were amazing. Lots of individual components instead of ICs. Lots of physical wires in a rat’s nest. Heh, whatever worked, right?
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To get back on topic, I would suggest Thomann’s Harley Benton SB standard series (around 109 €) or SBK deluxe series (around 133 €) bass as a good first bass recommendation. But…if @Gpdojo is in the U.S., import duties have recently been slapped on these basses, even though they are WAY under $800. That’s too bad. They’re damn fine entry level basses.
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If he does not want a short scale, the Harley Benton MV-4MSB is great!
It’s basically the long scale version of my basses. And as a reminder: it was just as good as the Sire U5, which is double the price…
As a short scale it would be this one:
I can’t remember the story behind the Soviet shuttle program, but I thought it was developed either before the US version or at right around the same time.
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I saw an interesting documentary about it (of course) … they started a little later and “magically” used many of the same concepts.
The father of my girlfriend, who was well connected at that time (and still is), confirmed that a lot of solutions came from the very versatile “engineers” of the KGB…
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Good man, I wish to proclaim that the northern territory of Korea is not my domicile
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This is exactly what I’d expect a North Korean infiltrator to say though
Wild! We lost a contract for an aviation part (US), and when one shipped back to us, it had a ‘Made In Korea’ stamp on it, even though we had manufactured it. Our mark was still on it.
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Gotta correct myself; apparently it was some other defect that caused the catastrophe; I can’t recall whether I was misinformed or had drawn a false conclusion. Then, there’s the third option that whomever originally wrote the story found different information or was forced to recant.
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Well, I prefer a good false story to a true boring story
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