[ARC5] BC sets and others.

[Jack Antonio]

On 1/21/2014 7:05 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 21 Jan 2014 at 15:49, Geoff wrote:
>
>> If you want a good compact BC set get a post WW2 to about 56 auto
>> radio with PP audio; 6 or 12V.

> Yes. When I still lived in Missoula, Montana, at least 35 years ago, I would
> go to my favorite junk yard, buy nice-looking auto radios, and build them into

My bedside radio in high school was from a 1952 Ford. 60 foot longwire
just stuck into the antenna jack.  12" speaker from an old TV set.

Living in a small town in central Nevada, KRLA (Los Angeles) would
boom in every morning. I would turn the radio on before sunrise, and 
listen to the farm reports from an Iowa station until sunrise, when KRLA
went to daytime power, and took over the frequency.

At night, KOMA from Oklahoma was a regular, along with KFWB
(when they were a rocker), and a host of other stations.

Nowadays, the AM band is just no fun.

Jack Antonio WA7DIA/4