Ours looked similar, definitely included FM though. My first DX radio was a Halicrafters SX-130 receiver, purchased new by my father when he was a teenager. Fond memories of stringing random wires across the basement floor and experimenting with different wire antennas I strung through the trees. I actually still have it, and still works. Needs to be re-capped and aligned though. May be my winter project.My childhood neighbor, now K8RY, was always taking the NuTone Intercom Master Station apart and replacing tubes and filter capacitors, and cleaning the switches. This looks like it:
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I thought it was AM-FM, as he used to listen to both WKAR 870 and FM 90.5, and I remember hearing airplane fading and asked about it. He may have used an AUX input for the FM.
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Just looked at the house on the Real Estate sites. It was built in 1956, so it probably was AM only. It had a Phono RCA input, and I think it was a for a Ceramic Cartridge Phono output. So he probably just patched a Mono FM output into the Intercom Master Station. There was an intercom station on the back porch.
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Kinda off topic but I've been in telecommunications for 27 years and you'd be amazed by the "off-premise extensions" I have found. Most intentional, some, not so much. People are snoopy and will sometimes go to great lengths to snoop.
How far are you from those signals?My TV antenna on the ceiling of my room that allows me to get the channels from Hilo.
Are you ever able to get TV signals from other islands?
As I am living in an apartment right now here in Ellensburg, I am not allowed to have outdoor or external antennas. I use(d) my car radio and Sangean ATS-909X built in whip for FM DX, and for AM I use an SDR receiver located 6 mi east of me in Kittitas. When I feel like it, occasionally I'll take my ATS-909X and a Select-A-Tenna out to DX in common areas, but when students are around, they walk at all hours of the day or night from classes, other buildings, laundry rooms, and dining halls. That makes it difficult to not have looky-loos all over my 'odd' equipment. Because most university students don't listen to a portable radio.
Now if you want my dream antenna setup...this will happen someday.
Buy a house with at least 2-5 acres of space
Install a D-KAZ beaming east for AM and another loop beaming west for Trans-Pacific DX
Install a Korner or Stellar Labs FM antenna on top of the roof or on a mast at least 25 ft high
Install a rotor for FM for when E skip or meteor scatter is up
Install a VHF TV antenna for DTV E-skip DX (channels 2-6).
Now if I moved to a rural Midwest town, I'd probably have a 50-foot tower with antennas on it. But that's never happening in my life.
Now if you want my dream antenna setup...this will happen someday.
Buy a house with at least 2-5 acres of space
Install a D-KAZ beaming east for AM and another loop beaming west for Trans-Pacific DX
Install a Korner or Stellar Labs FM antenna on top of the roof or on a mast at least 25 ft high
Install a rotor for FM for when E skip or meteor scatter is up
Install a VHF TV antenna for DTV E-skip DX (channels 2-6).
Now if I moved to a rural Midwest town, I'd probably have a 50-foot tower with antennas on it. But that's never happening in my life.
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