Extreme thanks. The URL actually wrapped twice but no problem. I did get the file and just got through listening to it. Imagine what that FM band was like during even a moderate Sporadic E opening or even the occasional F2 event. I believe that was one of the reasons why the FM broadcast band was moved up to 88-108 MHZ after World War II. In those days, it was very hard to come up with affordable receivers that had good performance much above 50 MHZ. Don't get me wrong. There were receivers and transmitters that went well in to UHF, but they were expensive and physically large and heavy. That is one of the reasons why we hams lost eleven meters to the CB service in 1958 or so. It was a grand compromise between equipment that people could afford which also actually still worked. A long-since departed ham in our area once told me of a CB service around 460 MHZ. The receivers were super regenerative and the transmitters pumped out around a watt or so. They would have been little more than toys and rather expensive ones at that. The FM band we hear in this recording was around 42 to 48 MHZ and those frequencies were prime real estate in the years after World War II. There was FM radio, public safety and commercial two-way and TV all fighting tooth and nail for the same range of frequencies. That, by the way is what happened to Channel 1. It actually shared some frequency space with the FM broadcast band. When propagation was normal, that worked more or less, but when we had skip, video buzz from distant TV transmitters mixed with FM radio and nobody was happy. The TV broadcastors gave up Channel 1 which was limited to low-power TV, anyway, in order to be given channels which were higher in frequency but had less desireable coverage due to the limitations of the tube-type tuners of the day. The original TV allocation after 1945 called for 19 channels but the air force wanted and still uses frequencies between 230 and 400 MHZ so that's why the VHF channels stopped at 13. It's too bad that Armstrong committed suicide in 1954 as he would have seen much of what he wanted come to pass had he lived longer. Martin WB5AGZ Ron Canazzi writes: > Try this direct link using your Lynx browser in Linux. I tried it and it > is > currently downloading as a test. I see no reason why it should not work. > Be sure to copy the whole link--since it might line wrap and you may get > an > error 404 because the link you paste is not complete.