Tony Meloche wrote in message ...
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


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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


Hi Tony. Neither the Gale Directory or CING's website indicate a
history for this station before 1976 under whatever call letters, but
you may well be correct. Bruce Elving's newest FM Atlas shows that
CING has migrated to 105.3 and a new station, CJXY, now occupies
107.9. It would be a stretch to say that I get a lot of the 90 mile
plus stations in "good, listenable stereo". This exercise was
intended more as a DXing demonstration with bare bones equipment in
challenging conditions than anything else. Still, one of the presets
is set to 99.1 CBLA-FM Toronto CBC Radio One which is 109 miles from
my location. Overnight they replay a variety of newscasts from around
the world. Very often their signal comes in in stereo, especially
during the Winter. I don't think I've even begun to maximize the
Model 88's FM performance. For one thing, my ground floor location is
bounded on the south by an enormous three story triplex 40' away, and
a two story home 6' away on the north. I think if I can get a good
Yagi up above the rooftops this radio would really shine.

Regards,

Grumpus

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grumpus wrote:
Hi Tony. Neither the Gale Directory or CING's website indicate a
history for this station before 1976 under whatever call letters, but
you may well be correct. Bruce Elving's newest FM Atlas shows that
CING has migrated to 105.3 and a new station, CJXY, now occupies
107.9. It would be a stretch to say that I get a lot of the 90 mile

I think you mean 95.3 for CING. It swapped frequencies with CJXY a year
or two ago. Neither station is actually "new".

95.3 was CKDS in 1973; 107.9 came into existence as CING in 1976.

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Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Doug Smith W9WI wrote in message ...
grumpus wrote:
Hi Tony. Neither the Gale Directory or CING's website indicate a
history for this station before 1976 under whatever call letters, but
you may well be correct. Bruce Elving's newest FM Atlas shows that
CING has migrated to 105.3 and a new station, CJXY, now occupies
107.9. It would be a stretch to say that I get a lot of the 90 mile

I think you mean 95.3 for CING. It swapped frequencies with CJXY a year
or two ago. Neither station is actually "new".

95.3 was CKDS in 1973; 107.9 came into existence as CING in 1976.

You're probably right Doug, I wasn't sure if I remembered CING's new
frequency correctly even as I wrote it down...goes to show you don't
always fly when you wing it.

Regards ,

Grumpus