AM and SW can travel farther (sometimes much farther) than FM especially at night.
I had a little crystal radio kit at some point when I was a kid and at night would sometimes pick up AM "blowtorch" stations hundreds of miles away. On Fri, Dec 23, 2022, at 13:05, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > Yeah, that was another place I used. Forgot about them. > > I was always amazed at the sensitivity of the tuners these things had. > I had an outdoor copper wire dipole that ran into my room that I used > for my HeathKit SW receiver and when I hooked that up to it I could > pull in an amazing number of stations. I would sit there for hours and > just log the different stations/locations I could get at night (CQ CQ!) > > -D > >> On Dec 23, 2022, at 12:59 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> I remember back in the day when the Radio Shack at the mall had a vacuum >> tube tester. >> >> I forget, am I the youngest on the list? Gotta be close... >> >> -Curt >> >> >> On Friday, December 23, 2022 at 12:50:04 PM EST, dan penoff.com via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Yup, seen lots like that or similar over the years. >> >> These often ended up at my house when I was a kid because I was the one in >> the family who could “fix stuff”. I was very adept at replacing blown >> capacitors and testing tubes at the local drugstore… >> >> I had a smaller Zenith cabinet style stereo form my great aunt’s estate that >> was in my bedroom for all of my teen years. I remember it well, as while it >> wasn’t stereo, it had a much warmer sound that all of that transistor-based >> stuff did. Still have the “Tibet Almond Stick” that came with it for >> touching up scratches on the cabinet: >> >> [cid:E7EBB06C-BC81-48AB-8A23-5DF188450CA3] >> >> -D >> >> On Dec 23, 2022, at 11:36 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/677208133799739/?mibextid=6ojiHh >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
