That sounds like a nice radio for the day, as many public services were
not trunked then, and were mainly VHF/UHF.  When did the first
programmable receivers come on the market?  I konw for scanners it was the
late 70's.





On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Steve Forst wrote:

> Somebody gave me one of these a few years ago that he picked up at a flea
> market for  less than $5.  It's seen better days, but still plays quite
> well.  One of the later Trans-oceani'sc from the '70's.  11 bands including
> AM, FM, longwave, 1 VHF band that covers  the weather band  and a little
> more, and 7 shortwave bands that  go up to somewhere around 22 mhz.
>
> Has knobs for volume, tone, rf gain, and b.f.o.   Also a switch for
> wide/narrow bandwidth.    The fm drifts a little, but what do you want for
> nothing?
>
> Don't use it often, but have it set up with power poles on a piece of zip
> cord to the battery compartment so I could  run off the big  battery in case
> of  power outage.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A
>