[Boatanchors] Car Radios

Sat Jan 21 17:59:48 EST 2012

My Mom's '53 Caddy convertable had that button on the floor next to the Hi/Lo beam button. I thought that was sooo cool! Learned all about how it worked in tech school. The school had us work on customer's stuff and only charged for parts. I worked on a car radio with that feature and it uses the AVC voltage to "seek" the next station up the band. Slick!

Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: D C *Mac* Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
To: geoffrey <geoffrey at jeremy.mv.com>; boatanchors <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, Jan 21, 2012 2:19 pm
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Car Radios

ad's 1950 Olds 98 4-door sedan had a "Signal Seeker" radio. 
reat sound (for the day) but the seek function never worked 
fter I added a Morrow 5BR-1 converter to it. Took the test 
or my driver license in that car in the middle of winter 
4/55 on glare ice with no snow tires! 

 suspect the Caddies of the day also had the seek function 
n their radios. 

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 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 * 
 k2gkk at hotmail.com * 
 (Since 30 Nov 53) * 
 Oklahoma City, OK * 
 USAF, Ret (61-81) * 
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> From: geoffrey at jeremy.mv.com
 To: rbethman at comcast.net; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
 Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:37:05 -0500
 Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Car Radios

 Buicks of that era had great sound and PP 6V6 or 12V6 audio.

 Carl
 KM1H

 ----- Original Message ----- 
 From: "rbethman" <rbethman at comcast.net>
 To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
 Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 1:31 PM
 Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Car Radios

 I can't remember what was in the 1950 Buick Roadmaster we had.

 However, it DID have the pushbuttons that you could set to a station,
 and the antenna was on the roof right over the windshield. You could
 turn it with a knob to get better reception.

 Come to think of it, it was the same in the 1952 Buick Roadmaster.

 Bob - N0DGN

 On 1/21/2012 1:24 PM, Jim Wilhite wrote:
 > If that is the case maybe you should correct this.
 >
 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_audio
 >
 >
 > Geoff<geoffrey at jeremy.mv.com> wrote:
 >
 >> Strictly Moto BS.Its been going around like a virus recently.
 >>
 >> Philco was the first volume auto radio producer and there were other
 >> examples going back to 1922.
 >>
 >> Carl
 >> KM1H

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