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I picked up a Heath Kit AM tuner Mod. AJ-53 Sounds great Its been aligned to 9K. What would some thing like this go for? I dont listen to tuners that mutch anyway.
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if it's 60's it may well NOT have the NRSCA curve reverse EQ built in, and unless it has a 'soft' or 'narrow' b/w setting, which is okay, you won't even be close, sound will be a touch BRIGHTTTTTTT!!If yr in the UK or most cwlth nations 9k for a night-notch is fine.
What sort of AM is available to you, and it doesn't have to be real close, and are you in a city, or on a block or on a hobby-farm? It could / oughto affect yr antenna path.
you need to do some research locally and find out what is there, with yr car radio perhaps and log stuff. you may even find some music! ;-)!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
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Hi, zako:Such pieces are not of extreme collector value, I am afraid and not uncommon. I am assuming that yours features styling like a 1962 Chevy dashboard? WHOA!
Among the best sounding vintage tuners, are the 1957-58 vintage Fisher units. They are also not of extreme value, but they can sound magnificent on AM if they are kept up properly. For one thing, on such tuners, there were options such as the ability to switch between broad and narrow band and decent high frequency filtering.
I have a Fisher tuner like this from the late fifties which I once used to capture unique AM radio broadcasts years ago.
Among the best performing AM tuners ever made were those offered years ago by the McKay-Dymek company and the special electronic receiving antennas that McKay-Dymek once marketed are of similar value, if you can find them in working condition.
Those devices were capable of what was once called "broadband" AM "high-fidelity".
Then, there were the wonderful receivers manufactured in the 1930's by E. H. Scott and Company. AM fidelity at its best!
They were a different class of product altogether!
These were indeed, as they themselves proclaimed, the "Stradivarius of Radio Receivers", with design and construction quality that rivals anything made since. They still sound awesome today.And the good condition ones still draw huge dollars among collectors.
People have long forgotten the audio capability of AM after suffering many generations of substandard receivers that followed those you mentioned. I still keep a few '50s German table radios and an 800B around to keep that memory fresh.
Hi, sgmlaw:I wish I owned an E.H. Scott receiver from the thirties! I would probably sell off the bulk of my other antique radios in the collection for the proper example!
Nothing like those chromed chassis, biamplification and AM flat out to 10K to warm the ears and the heart!
I happen to own four or five excellent Zenith console and large tombstone style radios from the late thirties, but an E.H. Scott or Macmurdo-Silver set up would be cool!
made by Rogers Majestic in 1946 Canadian of course. I supposed it doesn’t worth much but man the sound oh the sound indeed. Right now, it’s in my museum shelf on top of my vinyl collections.
you know, like Australia, and NZ, and parts of the USA, and even Canada!It is nice but, go below and see what I use for a 'tuner'! Sounds marvellous, AM response flat goes out to 13k -3db, and I have a 9k notch to switch in, and for the NRSCA curve I switch to the 'old' soft/narrower position. And I have a tunable random external wire antenna! BoF!? Yep, probably!?
mainly Radio National, too little time lately.
WarmestTimbo in Oz
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Excellent!Enjoy your tuner, millen!
I also well remember a discussion among friends concerning the then advent of "AM STEREO".
A friend of mine was a radio station engineer, both for AM as well as FM broadcasting.
His comment was a classic of sorts:
"Why would you want to put lipstick on a pig?"
Could be true, for all I know!
... have been gettin' decent fidelity from an I.F.-modded Sony 2010, routed through a Sansui 9090's mike input, for close to a year now! Those podcasts KYCY(?)1550 khz broadcasts are one of the few music venues left utilizin' amplitude modulation. Radios Australia & New Zealand are the other two majors for Pacific Rim listeners. Since Auntie Beeb cut out shortwave broadcasts to the Americas, haven't heard their weekly musical programs. Somehow, it just aint the same via computer! Plus, over-the-air reception has gotten noisier here in Sactown these last several years. Auntie Beeb's 15.280 mhz Thailand relay will be weak-yet-readable on a Grundig Yacht Boy 400 portable up in Gridley's rice fields, but buried in static on an ICOM R-75 here in Sactown! Oh yeah, caught KOA Denver simucasting on 25.950 mhz, in F.M. mode, last week on that ICOM!!! 73s from Sactown!!!
Hiya, "Frogman"!You **are** into it, aren't you!
I've been listening to KPIG on AM as I drive around town these days. I had no idea how great their programming had become. It's almost beyond "shades of KFAT", in a pleasant way, of course!
I think that their programming is cool and hope they are doing well, financially!
You know, I once was a most avid General Coverage SW listener and "DX'er" way back when! In fact, I still own three Drake SW-4A set ups and more, but rarely turn them on or listen to them these days.
And....I really should finish restoring my 1934 Patterson PR-10 receiver! Now, there's a gem of an antique!
Ah, but the good ole' days of listening to Radio Papua New Guinea on about 7.35 mHz in 'pidgen English, no less!
Try that on FM radio!
Indeed, Richard! Mayhap the closest to Radio Papua may be Solomon Islands, 5.020 mhz, overnight here on da left coast! ... P.S., please let me know if any more of those Burwen units show up! Got a Sony cd recorder & would like to convert them stereo Beatles vinyl discs to cd. One of the clerks for downtown's Beat Records said customers have been returning Capitol's latest re-masters, because they were in mono, instead of advertised stereo! ... Made a copy of Nils Lofgren's KSAN Live Show for KVMR. Nils is opening up, in solo mode, for America up in Nevada City this Saturday nite! Steve Baker played "Rock-N-Roll Crook" during his Monday mornin' show, probably the first time in a few decades that song's graced NorCali's airwaves!!!
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