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I'm surprised how KDKA lost a lot to the first FM talker here in Pittsburgh. WPGB is on 104.7 Mc here in Pittsburgh and they first took Rush Limbaugh away from KDKA and then the Pittsburgh Pirate games. Except for a couple of years in the 1950's, KDKA always carried the Pirates since 1921. Can't get 1100 too well, you must be prone to a lot of RF interference. I know the feeling when I'm at work, AM is useless. As to my cats, yeah, it is tough losing them but I'm glad we recently got a new kitten so he is a help. That reminds me, got to give Corky her IV fluids tonight to help her kidneys. Thanks for the condolences. Chuck
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Thanks. Yeah, it's hard, plus my 18 year old cat, Corky, she is diabetic and needs fluids to help her kidneys but I'm glad to do it to keep her around to have a good life. She is a great comfort to me, she comforted me when I had a serious problem at college in 1989 when she was a kitten, in 1997 when Grandma passed away and just now when Boo passed away. I plan on starting a pets thread this weekend in the general forum. She does like to eat a lot though, it's slow putting weight on her because of her age mostly plus her condition but beyond being a little underweight, she is fine.
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Small portables have a "ferrite coil" antenna, which works well.
I used to be quite frustrated about driving around, listening to something on AM, arriving home, and having to sit in the car to hear the rest of the show. Wife - "Honey, what are you doing sitting out here in the driveway? Are you OK?" Yeah, but I could not hear the AM station on my home stereo tuner that I could easily hear on the car radio. OK, some guys will say, "You need a 'longwire' antenna." I've tried them, they just don't work for AM until you get at least 150' or so of wire stretched out. They just aren't practical. This is from MTM Scientific, and is a nice version of the "sports fan's loop". It is a tuned loop which gives more gain, is fine tuned with a common tuning capacitor. You can buy the plans, but there are any number of similar loops plans you can find online. These tunable loops can provide an even stronger signal. http://www.mtmscientific.com/loop.html http://www.mindspring.com/~loop_antenna/ http://www.angelfire.com/mb/amandx/loop.html http://www.midnightscience.com/catalog5.html A tuned loop construction and operation: http://youtube.com/watch?v=QpGXECoY6zg Tuned loop Part 1 http://youtube.com/watch?v=6HRZcTL15ZA Tuned loop Part 2 You can add just a high impedance earplug/earphone and 1N34a germanium diode to a tuned loop and you have, voila!, a crystal radio! So, where do you put these antennas? One guy mentioned that he built his loop antenna on the inside of a closet door, and simply swings the door open to closed to aim the antenna. Loops have a figure 8 reception pattern, so you only need 90 degrees of rotation. Anyway, having a good antenna attached to your tuner will make all the difference in your AM listening.
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I'm about to date my self but in the sacramento area we had 3 rock stations KROY,KROI one was AM the other FM I can't remeber which but I belive KROYwas AM and on FM we had good ol KZAP.At night you could listen to Wolf Man Jack,I miss those days they where very simple times.Everyone was an American 1st and no one would have thought a political party would try to stop free speach on AM radio because they didn't agree with it.And now we talk so much about tolarence but fail in everway to understand and practice it .You could belive the main stream news then to some degree .And when someone moved into your neiborhood your father would take over a six pac of beer and introduce him self to the man of the house,people helped each other tinker on projects,the family car or just pulling a stump was a neiborhood event My DaDs old 61 ford had a compound 4speed 411 gears in a possitraction rear end with a little 292and this little white and yellow truck was then the neiborhood stump puller as a kid I remeber a chain came loose and when the truck lerched forward a 4 foot section flew over the cab and landed in a feild across the street over 100 yards away.my dad came back with it and the hooks had sherd off and he said if it has gone through the rear window into the cab I would have lost my head! sorry to dygress but I just remember a time when people stopped by just to hang out in our garage and see what my dad was working on as back then men alwasys where building something or fixing somthing them selves the radio was always on and no one really gave a crap if you where republican or a democrat because we where all to buisy being americans,neibors and freinds.
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