On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:55:11 -0700, Bob Dobbs
wrote:
Bart Bailey wrote:
In Message-ID:49d97750.1387421@chupacabra posted on Sun, 05 Apr 2009
02:21:17 -0700, Bob Dobbs wrote: Begin


I used to run the radio reading services on my bedside table as I slept
so that I would wake up with the days news having been subliminally
infused into my brain.

What brand receiver did you use?

I think it was Marcom or something similar.
The unit I had access to belonged to a neighbor of a friend in an old
farts building, and I used it until she recovered and returned home from
her hospitalization.
I would like to get another one that I could keep, maybe I'll have to
fake blindness or something g

You could try Ebay. That's where I got mine.

It only receives one of what I understand to be two subcarriers for
each FM frequency. Doubtless "made" for a specific service.

I put "made" in quotes because it's modified and rebadged as
"Bonneville International Corporation" (or something like that -- the
text is very small). Nonetheless, the radio itself has a very clear
Panasonic label affixed to the speaker grill cloth. (It's an RE-6518,
according to the back label.)

The thing blows on AM (to be expected, I guess) but with an external
FM wire antenna it's okay. And the SCA decoding is good enough.

Odd thing, though: for a small tabletop radio, it has one, LARGE
speaker (maybe 4 or 5 inches) that excels at filling a small room with
music. But it SUX at providing crisp human speech.

Anyways, I like to turn it on every few months to check out what's on
NYC's FM subcarriers.

--
Col. I.P. Yurin
Commissariat of Internal Security

Stakhanovite
Order of Lenin (1937)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1939)

On Apr 5, 2:36*pm, I. P. Yurin
wrote:

Odd thing, though: for a small tabletop radio, it has one, LARGE
speaker (maybe 4 or 5 inches) that excels at filling a small room with
music. But it SUX at providing crisp human speech.

I picked up two speakers years ago that is exactly opposite of what
you said. They came from those mobile MRI buses that go to shopping
centers or your place of business. Me and another fella were given
permission to gut the bus after the real expensive equipment was taken
out.

The speakers are called "Quam" and on the speakers it reads "Quam-The
Sound Decision." There were eight inside the walls of the bus, I got
four of them. They were made just for voice, it's pretty cool that
music can sound so crappy but voice sounds scary clear plus, if that's
possible. I have one scanner for each speaker, clearest voice speakers
I've ever owned.