Several years ago I was driving, and stopped for the night at a Howard
Johnson's. The only room they had available had no TV, so I brought i an
AM-FM portable I had in the car.

The radio had spent some time in the sun, and was pretty well 'cooked',
you might say.

The FM section didn't work at all; the AM section picked up SWBC quite
well; I spent the evening listening between VOA and BBC.

I do NOT reccomend this method! :-)

"An armed society is a polite society"

Robert A. Heinlein