[Hammarlund] John R. Leary SP-600 Audio

[brumac@juno.com]

Hi Boomer,
        Like yourself, I enjoy the music of the Big Bands and was very
heartbroken when WQEW  (1560 AM ) in NYC sold us "older folks" out and
leased it to the Disney people.    I am in the area of NY State known as
the Finger Lakes area (by a little streach of the imagination),   I am 
actually about 25 miles east of Rochester and about 2 miles south of Lake
Ontario, and there are 2 AM stations that play the oldies and do come in
quite well, esp on the SP 600, JX-17.    My favorite is CHWO on 740 from
Toronto, which you are probably aware of and then WLDZ on 990 from
Rochester, NY.    I've tried WCRN but Worcester is too far and 5000 watts
is not enuf.    WPTR on 1540 in Albany is usually decent with the BA's
and sometimes iffy with my assorted TO's, GE Supers and the Panasonic RF
2200.     I have picked up CHWO as far south as Florence, SC, and their
best big band night is usually on Sat.   Fri night is kind of a "Sock
Hop"

Best regards,
Bruce MacLellan

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On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:03:42 -0500 tbigelow@pop.state.vt.us (Todd Bigelow
- PS) writes:
> Les -
> 
> Please don't relay stories like this while I'm at work - it makes me 
> want to go
> home and play!
> 
> Sounds like a nice rig, knowing how nice the SX-28A and SX-62B 
> sound. If it tops
> that, it must be pretty spectacular. I'd be curious to hear how he's 
> redesigned
> the audio section over stock. No, I don't want to modify mine(I 
> could never
> aspire to such heights anyhow), but it would be interesting to know. 
> It's
> amusing to me though, how many of us are against modifying this old 
> gear, but
> would love to own such a piece of radio history. Perhaps it's the 
> fact that the
> radios were so much more plentiful back then or just the oddity 
> involved. For
> me, it would definitely be the thrill of using a radio created by a 
> 'master'
> instead of just hacked by Joe Ham. Regardless of what a purist might 
> think of
> Mr. Leary's creations, from all I've read he seems to have been a 
> very
> interesting and knowledgeable guy who embodied the actual spirit of 
> 'radio' in
> his work.
> 
> As far as dating yourself with the Big Band music, we already knew 
> you were
> older 'n dirt. Besides, that great music has been making a comeback 
> over the
> last decade(not that it ever went away), so it's not that clear of 
> an indicator
> of age as it was 20 years ago. There's a station down in 
> Massachusetts will a
> call of WCRN at 830 on the AM dial. Plays all Big Band, Sinatra, 
> etc. I listen
> to it most weekends on the SX-62B, sometimes the SX-28A. I got to 
> see Stan
> Kenton and Woody Herman when I was in high school back in the 70s, 
> never looked
> back after that. Still like a lot of other types of music as well, 
> but there's
> nothing like the fullness and timing of Big Band...
> 
> Hmmm....I've been out of town for a few days and just got back 
> today....wonder
> if the boss would notice if I went home and played radio?
> 
> Boomer
> 
> 
> 
> SP600historian@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > The group,
> >
> > Been experimenting today with various speakers on a John R. Leary 
> SP-600.
> > This particular Leary Super-pro has a 4 - 8 - 16 ohm selector 
> seitch on the
> > rear panel and has his usual audio mods. Not sure what the audio 
> wattage
> > output is, but lety me assure you it is plentiful!!
> 
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