"I. P. Yurin" wrote in message
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Basically, I would like to know what "this" is:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3034411896

I found it by searching on a certain radio station. In any case, the
picture shows what seems to be a tuner, with stations, rather than
freq's listed on the dial.

What intrigues me is that many of these stations are local NYC and
ones I listen to regularly. The write-up makes it seem like this tuner
will be better than a "normal" tuner that covers the whole band. Is
that true?


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It would have better frequency stability than other FM tuners of the early
60s. Of course, it also be unable to tune frequencies for which it had no
crystal. Modern tuners also have crystal stability, and can receive all the
channels in the FM band. So, from that point of view, a modern frequency
sythethisized tuner would be better. Also, modern electronics are generally
more reliable. So, it's hard to see any advantage for a non-technically
oriented FM listener.

There were other crystal controlled FM receivers in the 60s and before.
They were used for Muzak and other FM subcarrier broadcasts. They'd run
without any attention almost endlessly, a good thing for that market. The
people who were buying home FM receivers had little interest in this sort of
thing back then.

But I do think it's kinda cool. I like vacuum tube electronics and
technological dead-ends. I'd enjoy getting this thing working as perfectly
as possible. And I'd pay $20.00 bucks for it. Maybe $25.00.

Frank Dresser