On Mar 5, 6:31*am, dave wrote:
dave wrote:

Massachusetts was a great place to hear AM BCB DX. I managed to get
almost every state in the lower 48, including California and
Washington, plus a bunch of Canadians across the prairie, on a Radio
Shack portable using just the internal ferrite bar. Everything east of
the Rockies was a cinch. Had I know then how to loop a wire aorund the
radio for added induction, who knows what else I could have grabbed.

Nobody aims their signals thisaway, I guess...

When I was a kid growing up near Phoenix I could DX all of N. America on
an All American 5 tube superhet (with 100' of wire inductively coupled
to the loop). *I listened to WLS regularly, and could get many Eastern
Seabord stations, e.g. WBZ, WIBG, etc., when conditions were right.

When you could only own a handful of stations you were much more
protective of your spectrum and much more original in your programming.
* Group ownership of too many stations has turned the product into audio
junk food.

No kidding - it ain't like it was, is it? Sad...

Bruce