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Old 04-19-2014, 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Tubejunke View Post
What year was the radio made? Mid 40s radios often had a partial FM band that went only from about 21 to 99 MHz (the #s on my Philco dial). Of course you should still be able to bring something in in most places.
Pre-war FM sets left off the first digit of the frequency on the dial scale. They tuned 42.1 through 49.9 mHz. Some earlier models, but not many, tuned a band of lower frequencies before the band allocation was changed.
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