AM Radios

[MarioMania]

I love Transistor Radios, I'm starting to collect transistor AM Radios

I'm bought General Electric P2790

What's the best AM Transistor Radios for DXing

[bob91343]

Communications receivers, such as the Kenwood R-100 etc.

[WISCOJIM]

http://antiqueradios.com/forums/view...p?f=4&t=256717

[MarioMania]

AM Only

I made a accout there

[WISCOJIM]

The thread I linked has posts describing the best "AM only" radios.

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[Dude111]

Originally Posted by MarioMania

I made a accout there

Good you will be glad ya did...... I love it there also!!!

[Sandy G]

I'm thinking that, for the MOST part, AM only transistor sets were designed strictly to be as small & light as possible, & easy on batteries. They were designed to be only sensitive enuf to pick up the local one, two or three stations. Any REAL "DXing" ability was likely accidental, as was sound quality.

[jr_tech]

There were some larger (arm stretcher heavy) AM only analog radios that were quite decent DX machines... The GE P780, IMHO was one of the best:
http://radiojayallen.com/ge-p780/

Perhaps a better link here: http://www.radiointel.com/nrge.htm

jr

[Sandy G]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

There were some larger (arm stretcher heavy) AM only analog radios that were quite decent DX machines... The GE P780, IMHO was one of the best:
http://radiojayallen.com/ge-p780/

jr

Very interesting article... But Lexington Law, or whoever those bilious bastards are who HAD to put their money-grubbing feckin' shyster ads in EVERY photo, simply RUINED it for me...Stick w/Ambulance Chasing, you gotdam Lowlifes...

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Very interesting article... But Lexington Law, or whoever those bilious bastards are who HAD to put their money-grubbing feckin' shyster ads in EVERY photo, simply RUINED it for me...Stick w/Ambulance Chasing, you gotdam Lowlifes...

Sorry! hopefully this is a better link:
http://www.radiointel.com/nrge.htm
jr
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[Sandy G]

Danke Schoen ! ONE ad is two too many, but one on EVERY picture ?!? REALLY ?!? And PLEASE understand I WASN'T grousing about YOU, just the stoopit ads..

[WISCOJIM]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Danke Schoen ! ONE ad is two too many, but one on EVERY picture ?!? REALLY ?!? And PLEASE understand I WASN'T grousing about YOU, just the stoopit ads..

I didn't see any ads on any of the links. Don't you have any adblockers installed on your computer? If not, you certainly should.

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[Sandy G]

Yeah, I have adblockers, but for whatever reason, it DIDN'T get them. And I still despise Chortle-They run their ads on TV EVERY time the shows break for ads-And its always either that smarmy metrosexual, or the gal in that dopey blue dress-PLUS the annoying "Too School for Cool "electronic" piano background music.. At least it ain't a gotdam ukulele, some idiot whistling, or that smarmy "Synth-Clapping" crapola the Mad Men currently think denotes "homey, cheery" to the Great Unwashed masses they're trying to shill to..

[Jeffhs]

AM DXing is almost pointless, except for the thrill of hearing stations hundreds of miles away from one's home. Who wants to hear the same syndicated talk shows they can get on a local station from a station 500+ miles distant? That's what AM radio has become--the same old talk programs on almost every station on the dial. There are some very rare exceptions, such as low-power oldies music stations in small towns and religious broadcasters, to say nothing of the big all-news stations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh. For the most part, IMHO, the AM broadcast band isn't worth listening to anymore. Most music stations are now on FM.

I see a day coming in the not-too-distant future when the AM broadcast band will be reassigned to other services, not unlike the reassignment of analog TV channels. The programs now on AM stations will likely move to FM or to the Internet, if they haven't done so already. I understand there are many places in Canada where there are no more AM stations; most AM programming has been moved to FM, although there are still a few AM talk stations, such as CKLW in Windsor. But even that one may eventually abandon its 800 kHz AM dial position and move to FM as well. Sounds like something that should have been done in the U. S. a long time ago.

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

AM DXing is almost pointless, except for the thrill of hearing stations hundreds of miles away from one's home.

I thought "the thrill of hearing stations hundreds of miles away from one's home" WAS what AM DXing is. Is it supposed to possibly be something else?