Brooce

Fantastic!

Brooce

<p style=”text-align: left;”>Hartford, Connecticut – where I hang my hat – has a lot of pirates on AM and FM.</p>
As more LPFMs or translators come

on the air, the pirates try to move.  Just in the last couple

of weeks, a pirate with a large coverage area was squashed by

a new translator that is running max erp (for translators.)

I was amused…[Read more]

Great Story!
<p style=”text-align: left;”>When I was 6 or 7 years old I connected some wires to a big</p>
battery and hung them straight up in the air with some string.

Then I went to the other side of

the room and connected some long wires to a little motor.  After I hung THOSE wires up in the air — I looked at the whole thing for a…[Read more]

I just watched the video Neil mentioned about the KnightKit transmitter.

It was GREAT.

Best Wishes

Brooce

<p style=”text-align: left;”><b>Really fun thread!</b></p>
I missed the experience of the

Knightkit transmitter.

Our bunch have a parallel story.

We had the Lafayette KT-195 transmitter kit.  (Two of them,

actually.)   We also had 2 Lafayette

990177 phono oscillators that used 12BE6 and 35W4 tubes.

They were all bad performers

and were ve…[Read more]

<b>I did not know this.  The first thing that comes to mind is how it will change AM BCB DX</b>

during critical hours.

Then there are a whole bunch of other things after that.

Best wishes to all.

Brooooce Part 15 Hartford  CT

Neil:

Right!  Good question.

It’s a vacuum tube radio.

I’m thinking  I will pay someone to recap this.

When the radio is turned

on it hums a real lot.  As the

tubes warm up the hum goes way down.

BUT maybe not enough.

I’m not sure.  There is a big

vintage radio crowd around here.  I might be able to get an identical radio that is in bett…[Read more]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>By the way– I am looking to recap a 1962 Zenith AM FM</p>
Hi Fi radio.  It sounds great and is LOUD.  I love the sound.

It does need recapping and the dial cord is slipping.

Can I do this work myself?

Not sure.

I’ll have to dig up the model

number on this thing.

There are a couple of them on YouTube.

Brooce, P…[Read more]

So Hartford CT – winter 1967 — I was 12 years old.

WDRC 1360 was the thing.

EXCEPT for another station

just a bit before — I was 100 miles away from home in

Boston having retina surgery.  WMEX on 1510 was there — a great top40 station.  Upon returning to

CT shortly after — I tried to

receive WMEX with no results.  I had no way of kn…[Read more]

About 1967 – when I was 12 — radio and music exploded

for me.

Hartford CT – WDRC 1360 5 KW directional – on from

6:AM until 1:AM.  After 1:AM sign-off one night –

I captured WBAY 1360 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

WDRC in Hartford was pop top 40 – but THEY called it

the WDRC 1360 swingin 60 hit survey.  So they had 60

top songs.  I couldn’t fi…[Read more]

I love the stories.  I love the pictures.

Who remembers the radio

stations from back then?

Frequencies?  Transmit power?   Antenna pattern if

AM BCB?  Station hours?  Oddities?  Etc.?

Brooce

DXing AM on that car radio must have been glorious

(for lack of a better word.}

Brooce

Neil – what a great thing to write about!

I’m doing the same thing.

I want to recap a radio – and then there are

some others – and I’m not sure what to do with

them.

I love transmitting old radio shows, etc. etc. through

these old radios.  I usually have several going at once

around the house.

Brooce Part 15 Hartford CT

I read this with great interest.

I have a 1939 RCA Model 60, just recently given

to me.  At first I didn’t want it.  Now it’s almost part

of the family.  (To me anyway.)

I have not been able to get onto this board, but I hope I

can add more to this thread.

Brooce, Part15, Hartford, CT

ZOWIE!!!

How did you find this?

Brooce, Part15, Hartford CT

Alright Neil!

This is what every Part 15er hopes will

happen — WELL — those who are broadcasting

good and different content to themselves anyway.

And then there is the greatest surprise — within

your teeny coverage area – your programming is

being enjoyed by someone you don’t know or

don’t know well.

Well – you know what I m…[Read more]

Yeah, that’s a good point.

We have a class D on 1120

about 10 miles from here.

It’s about 100 watts or so…

and directional.  I’ll look

it up.  Anyway– KMOX covers it up sometimes.

The AM BCB is such a mystery to me.  That’s

why I keep trying to hear things.  A few times in my

life I have heard European stations.  Many years ago

I hear…[Read more]

Cool.

I’ll have to try to hear it here in Connecticut.

A fun challenge.

By the way, I also have a Tecsun PL-380. A

wonderful radio.  I use mine almost every day!

Brooce, Hartford

I have wanted to  put up some pictures of my

vintage Gates Studioette board and some radios,

transmitters, etc.

When I get around to it, I’ll start another thread for that.

Thanks again Neil.

Brooce in Hartford

Hi rock95seven!

By the way, that’s my Gates Studioette board.

Brroce