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More About Potential Old DX Radios, Old DX Stories

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Schroedingers Cat

I remember that serious AM BC distance listeners and SWLs had a lot of Nordmende and German made radios like Grundig, but there were others. I had a piano teacher whose husband carted a table radio AM SW up to Crystal Lake, West of Traverse City, where they had a cottage, every year. We visited there sometimes when we rented a cottage there. This was probably in the early to mid 1960s.

There were no local AM stations available there at Night. WTCM 250 watts on 1400 was buried in interference. WCCW 1310 Traverse City, WDOR 910 Sturgeon Bay, WI, and WDBC 680 Escanaba were the predominant Day signals that all signed off at night. It was too far North to get WTMJ at 5 kW well, and the further Chicago 50 kW stations.

I do remember hearing 50000 watt WISN on 1130 there during morning Critical Hours, the first I heard that they were 50000 watts. I had a Rand McNally Atlas from 1956 that listed the vast majority of US stations, excluding some Daytime and low power stations. WISN was shown on 1150 with 5000 watts, and I knew no one was assigned 50000 watts on 1150, so with an inaccurate slide rule dial, I was initially confused.

FMs were just beginning to come on the air. I think it might have been one with a backwards dial, but can't remember the brand. It had pushbutton presets at the bottom of the dial area.

Here's a Nordmende that I wonder if any of you owned.

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Some of the old multibanders from the 60's and 70's were good radios... as numerous Zenith Transoceanic aficionados can attest.

I've seen testimonies of guys who had the Panasonics and Sonys of the transistor multibander boom, and they said they were great performers.
 
boombox4 said:
Some of the old multibanders from the 60's and 70's were good radios... as numerous Zenith Transoceanic aficionados can attest.

I've seen testimonies of guys who had the Panasonics and Sonys of the transistor multibander boom, and they said they were great performers.
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I had a Zenith Transoceanic and the MWDX I could get on it was excellent.
 
I am using a Mac Book, because my wife doesn't like IBM/PCs. People don't write many malware programs for Macs, not that they are better. She just doesn't believe in, "when in doubt, reboot".
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
I am using a Mac Book, because my wife doesn't like IBM/PCs. People don't write many malware programs for Macs, not that they are better. She just doesn't believe in, "when in doubt, reboot".
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I think they are running some poorly coded script to try to "test" the connecting browser to be sure it meets their "standards". I first got a nasty script error in Firefox, so I tried Chrome and got an alert from Symantec Endpoint Protection. It may just prove that some webmasters should look into a different line of work...
 
John Bryant and Harold Cones wrote a couple of great books about the Zenith Transoceanic radios. There may still be a few copies available from Universal Radio.
I was walking back to KSL one day during lunch, and spied one of those beautiful radios sticking out of a trash can in the big parking lot. Someone apparently had cleaned out an RV, and dumped it. Unfortunately, they had also dumped trash, old food and human poop in there, too.
I didn't take it home.
 
kenglish said:
John Bryant and Harold Cones wrote a couple of great books about the Zenith Transoceanic radios. There may still be a few copies available from Universal Radio.
I was walking back to KSL one day during lunch, and spied one of those beautiful radios sticking out of a trash can in the big parking lot. Someone apparently had cleaned out an RV, and dumped it. Unfortunately, they had also dumped trash, old food and human poop in there, too.
I didn't take it home.
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Too bad, it was a great radio.
 
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