We had one of those Admiral rAM adios with a volume on/off knob and a 
tuning knob.  It's rejection was so poor I could run a jumper from 
the external antenna terminal to whatever and pick up shortwave 
stations.  I eventually got a Hallicrafters Worldwide, which was 
similar to the Zenith Transoceanic.  It ran off a huge battery, so I 
could take it outside away from all the noise in the house and listen 
to all kinds of short wave broadcast s from the Air Force base near 
Fairbanks where my dad was stationed.  Before his tour was up, I had 
my novice ticket.

73,

Dave, W7OQ

At 05:15 PM 1/29/2015, you wrote:
>Lou,
>
>I love those old radio broadcast band stories.  Thanks for sharing that one.
>I hope others do the same.
>
>Phil.
>K0NX
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lou Kolb" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 5:48 PM
>Subject: Re: Broadcast Band
>
>
> > While I was in high school, my bedside radio was a crystal set that my dad
> > and I built. It had a 1n34 diode as the detector and a tapped coil that we
> > wound  on a wooden form plus 2 variable capacitors. We were close enough
> > to
> > the philly transmitters that I could receive WFIL with no problem. since
> > it
> > was broad as a barn door, the fidelity was terific,even on AM.
> > Lou Kolb
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 7:48 PM
> > Subject: Broadcast Band
> >
> >
> >>I am still a broadcast band DX hound.  I started at about age 6 with a
> >> crystal set in the shape of a little red rocket ship listening by
> >> clipping
> >> the ground aligater clip on anything I figured was going to ground.  Got
> >> one
> >> station, of course.  We used to stand outside in the freezing cold at the
> >> Nebraska School for the Blind, with our radios pressed up against a light
> >> pole behind the school building because the close proximity help increase
> >> signal strength.  We could copy X E R F just over the Mexican border and
> >> loved listening to Wolf man Jack.  He did a year of broadcasting here in
> >> Denver in his later years.  I about fell off my chair when I heard him
> >> locally one day years ago.  Anyhow, My Icom 7000 is a super broadcast
> >> band
> >> receiver.  All the features, notch filter, DSP, crystal filters, etc..
> >> and
> >> the 3 levels of pre-amp settings work, too, so plugging in all those
> >> frequencies of favorit stations makes it easy tuning, not to mention the
> >> QSY
> >> er used to tap in the frequencies.  Changing frequency increments, point
> >> one, point 01 and point 001 helps fine tuning and the 3 levels of
> >> Amplitude
> >> modulation makes a big difference as well.  It is still fun to tune the
> >> bands and now even below 500 KHz.
> >>
> >> Phil.
> >> K0NX
> >