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I restored this a couple of years ago. I got reproduction buttons and call letter tabs.
ET
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It looks like you did a fine job. The wood looks great. Where did you source the knobs and decals? I need to get a couple knobs for my GE-87.
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Years ago a handful of early AM broadcasters had FCC approval for high wattage signals that covered most of the US. Many had call signs related to their owners or major sponsors:
WLS (Chicago) Sear & Roebuck= World's Larges Store
WSM (Nashville) National Life and Casualty Insurance= We Serve Millions (Grand Ole'Opry)
WWL (New Orleans) Jesuit Loyola University, originally jazz especially Dixieland, now more country/truck driver programming
As a kid in the '50s I enjoyed listening to late night radio. It amazed me that I could somehow receive stations from Boston, Nashville, New Orleans, etc. from my central Michigan home. Maybe I'd heard of clear channel but now I never thought to research it.
WLS Chicago was close enough I could receive it anytime and Detroit was even easier. Who remembers Dick Biondi and his "knock, knock" jokes on WLS?
However, while WSM did abbreviate We Serve Millions (per Wikipedia), that was a different insurance company than the Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee which owned the competing WLAC. The latter was probably my favorite of those distant stations. They played great R&B music. I never ordered anything from Randy's Record Shop but certainly knew about it. See link -
Anyway, thanks for posting the reference as now I can understand how I was able to enjoy listening to those distant stations long ago.
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
Yep. I get a lot of those starting from when I was ten years old in bed at night with a six transistor pocket radio.
ET
Are you from Philly? I recognize WCAU but not the others. Memory may have faded.
Nice job Earl.That has 20m 40m 80m 160m 17m 30m. Now if you stick a product detector on it with a BFO,you can pick up CW and some SSB as well..I'm an AM guy tho.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
Edits: 07/03/16
I have the BFO kit I built that runs on a 9V. You just alligator clip it to the antenna in. Works good on these radios. I think it was from Ten Tec.
ET
They work great..I pair of R390a receiver but I wasn't going to spring for a second one because I use that radio strictly in the AM shack.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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