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Originally Posted by Reece
Jeffhs, he's talking about 740 KTRH in Houston, not Toronto.
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Oooops! Thanks for the correction, Reece. I looked up 740 on RadioStationWorld.com and did in fact find KTRH, 740 kHz, in Houston. The station has a 50kW full-time signal, so Cruiseomatic's Delco radio is likely being swamped -- depending on how close to the station he is. As I mentioned, strong signal overload is a real problem in areas close to radio stations, even little 250-watt operations in small towns, so CoM's problem may not be the radio's alignment after all; it could be something as simple as KTRH's very strong signal generating harmonics across the dial. My grandmother had a 1948 GE clock radio in her summer cottage between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. That radio would receive a 50kW local Cleveland AM station, whose transmitter was just about five miles down the road, on both its fundamental frequency (1220 kHz) and also around 600 kHz. I'm convinced the problem was simply overload from the station's high-power signal, although the fact that the radio was a TRF four-tube set probably had something to do with it as well. If Cruiseomatic's Philco radio is of the same or similar type (TRF, not necessarily four tubes), and the signal from KTRH is strong enough, overload may be the explanation of the problem.