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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.
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> 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?
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> 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
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