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pPaul_Morphy wrote:
blockquote TYPE=CITEI agree, Paul. When I was working in the Oil Patch
in 1984, my little Datsun (also a bygone name) only had an AM radio. Most
mornings on the way in to the office site I would tune in the news and
at the end of the hour they always had the farm report. It helped to remind
me that there were a lot of people in those areas that made their livings
in ways other than by working for the Seven Sisters. On the whole however,
other than the local news programs there was little worth tuning in to;
even then the AM dial was full of talk show drek./blockquote

pbrAs to the original topic, I find I can do some nice DXing with my
Radio Shack SW-100. The "direction finder" on the top is actually the ferrite
bar, which allows me to turn the antenna up to 35 degrees in either direction
without moving the radio. When I add the Radio Shack AM loop antenna, here
in southern Maine I'm able to pick a bunch of Canadian stations, both French
and English, and a whole lot of balsams. These old radios can be had for
about $20 on ebay.
pHave fun!
pPete Davis
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pAs long as we're kvetching about AM, what bothers me is that so many
brstations just run satellite feeds and there is very little diversity
in
brprogramming. Broadcasting has become too homogenized. It's fun to pick
up
brdistant stations but the program content that made it interesting in
the
brpast is rarely there. When you heard the hog report from some little
town
brwest of nowhere, you _knew_ you were DXing!
p"PM"/blockquote
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