Westinghouse9 ?

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by newsong

Thanks,
This model has both AM and FM. I remember in the early 60's we could only get 1 FM station.

Hmmm. Interesting. I looked up Albion, NY on Google a few minutes ago and found that the town is 41 miles from Rochester. Unless the latter only had one or two FM stations in the time frame you mention, I would think you would be getting far more than just one FM radio station; in fact, I'd think you would hear every local station in Rochester, unless the stations were so weak (as were many FM stations in the early sixties) they could not reach much beyond the city or its immediate suburbs.

The geography of your area could be a factor as well. If there are mountains or other obstructions, natural or man-made, between Rochester and Albion, that could explain why you could hear only one station. Were you able to hear more with an external antenna? Again, I would think, being only 41 miles from Rochester, you would be getting most if not all the city's major FMs. (How many FM stations were in Rochester in the early 1960s?) I live about 35 miles east of Cleveland and can receive every one of the city's FM stations, despite the fact that the village in which I live is only 610 feet above sea level, and the city of Cleveland itself is just 660 feet ASL. (Ironically, television reception here is awful, with only one station coming in on an antenna well enough to watch; almost everyone in town, myself included, has cable or satellite.) I don't know Albion's elevation, but if the city is only a few hundred feet ASL or, worse, in a valley, that could also explain why your FM reception was so bad in those days. How many stations can you receive these days? I would think, as I mentioned above, you would be hearing almost every major FM in Rochester now, since most commercial FM stations run far more power these days and have better antenna systems, and the technology has improved greatly since the early sixties as well.