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NOT a swap meet / thrift store story .....

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Posted on April 12, 2015 at 19:44:50
Timbo in Oz
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 Getting an old simulcast rcvr, turning it into a good sounding AM tuner and a good-sounding FM stereo tuner. And the consequences for analogue TV reception of driving older valve FM front ends hard on a shared FM/TV coax network.

http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/t.mpl?f=tuner&m=15177

http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/t.mpl?f=tuner&m=14320




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RE: NOT a swap meet / thrift store story ....., posted on April 13, 2015 at 08:07:52
Crazy Dave
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 What is a simulcast receiver?

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RE: NOT a swap meet / thrift store story ....., posted on April 13, 2015 at 08:52:21
desertorganist
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 Sounds like one that has completely separate AM and FM tuners that can operate at the same time. I don't know when multiplex FM was settled in Australia; it was standardized in the U.S. in the early 1960s. Up until then, the only way to have stereo radio was to have one channel broadcast on AM and the other on FM, and the receiver had to be able to run the two simultaneously.

 

RE: NOT a swap meet / thrift store story ....., posted on April 13, 2015 at 12:21:54
Crazy Dave
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 I don't know much about it, but it sounds like a good idea. It certainly can't hurt. I have a few good AM tuners, but there is nothing in the my area worth listening to on AM. They used to be a big band station that was a lot of fun to listen to with a vintage tube radio, but they are gone. Now it is nothing but a bunch of lunatic talk shows where they b__ch and moan about how bad they think things are, and how terrible it is that people don't see things the way they do.

There are still some good things on FM and HD. I have a collection of fantastic FM tuners. They practically give them away at the thrift stores here. Nobody seems to want them, and like Nakamichi tape decks, I can't resist. My star at present is a B&K (Fanfair) tuner. My HD tuner is the Radio Shack closeout that has been posted about on Radio Road.

The tuners you are taking about are all tube. The thrift store scavengers all know enough to scarf up tube gear, even if they don't know what it is. So I never have seem much of it. My only tube tuner is a stereo, FM only tuner.

Dave

 

Mine had two AM tuners, and we combined them on one dial and knob.., posted on April 13, 2015 at 13:45:36
Timbo in Oz
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 Wider audio response out to about 13K. 9K Notch for night

We have two good AM stations - National ABC and local ABC.

Only two good FM stations.




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WAYE? )MT(, posted on April 13, 2015 at 14:02:10
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RE: WAYE? )MT(, posted on April 14, 2015 at 08:01:13
Crazy Dave
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 I don't remember the call letters, but I don't think that was it. I could be wrong!

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WAYE called themselves "Big Band 86" and was located in Glen Burnie, MD; 860 on the dial. )MT(, posted on April 25, 2015 at 07:06:33
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Later Gator,
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Find more about Weather in Chester, SC

 

RE: WAYE called themselves "Big Band 86" and was located in Glen Burnie, MD; 860 on the dial. )MT(, posted on April 29, 2015 at 11:17:17
Crazy Dave
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 That must have been it. It was a very strong signal and easy to find.

Dave

 

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