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]>
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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
>
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