Realistic MTA-15 AM/FM table radio

[Dangler]

Here's an MTA-12 they've been trying to sell for almost a year with no takers. Don't know if it's from the 70's tho.

http://wyoming.craigslist.org/ele/3434137538.html

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Dangler

Here's an MTA-12 they've been trying to sell for almost a year with no takers. Don't know if it's from the 70's tho.

http://wyoming.craigslist.org/ele/3434137538.html

It is from the 1970s. Look at the description; the seller definitely states the radio is from the seventies.

Note also that the AM tuning range of this radio ends at 1600 kHz. Radios built in the late '80s or nineties will tune to at least 1710 kHz, to include the expanded AM band that was opened to broadcasters around 1988-'89. I have a replica cathedral AM-FM radio, probably built in the late '80s, that tunes to 1710 kHz; my Aiwa bookshelf stereo also tunes to 1710 on AM, but that is because the system was built for the Japanese and North American markets. In Japan, the AM band has extended to 1710 for years, predating North America's expanded AM band by more than a decade.

Also, my bookshelf system has an option to allow tuning in 9-kHz steps as opposed to 10-kHz AM channel spacing in this country; again, this is because the Aiwa systems are built for use in the U. S. and in Japan. The FM band on my stereo extends down to 87.5 MHz for the same reasons; however, the extended coverage can come in handy in the US if you live in an area such as Chicago, Cleveland or New York (there may be others as well) that has an FM station on 87.7 MHz.