grumpus wrote:

Hi all. This past Spring I put my Cambridge Soundworks Model 88 table
radio, designed by the late Henry Kloss, through its paces on the FM
broadcast band. For the duration of the test, the radio sat in one
place in a ground floor room. The only antenna used was a cheap $2
plastic dipole tacked haphazardly to the wall; it too remained in one
place throughout the test. Here are my results


(4 part log snipped).



Good post, Grumpus. It appears that the radio has excellent
sensitivity with a very conventional antenna, and that your maximum
distance reception was about 120 miles - that would be top-end for any
good FM receiver with a dipole.


It also appears that CING, Burlington (Hamilton) is the old CKDS
that I used to listen to all day when I was working in Western New York
during the summers of 1970, '71 and '72.


I would be more interested in how many of those stations past the 90
mile range you were getting in good, listenable stereo. In "the old
days", any good, two-channel stereo image at a distance of 100 miles was
considered to be top-flight FM DX.

Tony


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