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.

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