[ARC5] Related Question Maybe - Re: 4-course radio ranges

[releazer at earthlink.net]

William F. Buckley was one of a group of students that bought an Ercoupe in the late 1940's and created their own flying club.  He enjoyed it very much and one day offered to fly a friend to a certain location.  He had observed his instructor communicate with the control tower and it seemed simple enough to handle but when he switched on the radio he was treated to an episode of "Portia Faces Life,"  a popular radio program.  He wondered if perhaps they switched the control tower transmitter over to AM radio during slow periods, but decided that seemed unlikely, so he took off without talking to the tower and proceeded on with the flight.  No doubt the LF receiver in the Ercoupe had a second band that covered AM broadcast radio, a common feature in both those and later days, and it was switched to the wrong band.

Wayne 
WB5WSV