[GreenKeys] Re: Early Mobile Telephone and associated equipment

Don Robert House k9tty at dls.net
Tue Mar 25 15:43:56 EST 2008


I once had a really nice looking console radio by General Electric.   
Beautiful veneers and it dounded great too.
It was AM and FM but unfortunately the FM band was Pre-WWII so I could  
not receive anything on FM.

Don


On 25 Mar 2008, at 7:37 AM, Roy Wildermuth wrote:

Actually

I always thought when I was a kid that FM stood for "Father's Music"


On 3/24/08 8:07 PM, "Duncan M. Brown" <duncanancy at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: EDW HICKEY
>
> I don't remeber any FM betwen the bands.  But at that age, who would  
> be
> looking for it? Back then it was AM (American Music) and FM (Foreign
> Music).  AM was rock and roll and FM was mostly classical.
>
>
> On 24 Mar 2008, at 11:34 AM, Larry Tighe wrote:
>
> I would bet that was the Mallory "Inductuner" found in the DuMont TV's
> also. FM was between the Hi and Low VHF tv channels. Yes???
>
> ---------------------------
>
> The FM Broadcast band is 88-108 Mhz.  Starts just above TV ch 6.  
> (Tune your
> FM BC receiver all the way to the bottom and you will pick up the  
> audio of
> any TV ch 6 in the area.)
>
> I assume those continuous tuning TV receivers were also calibrated  
> for the
> 88-108 Mhz FM broadcast band.
>
>  --Duncan
>
>
>
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