Re: [IRCA] Zenith radios

["Bob Young" <youngbob53@xxxxxxx>]

I started out DXing on a 1938 RCA 811K console, traded a Panasonic 8 track 
car player for it in 1971, still have it and still works and always has 
except for one broken tube during a move. I started medium wave DXing 
somewhere around 1975 with that and about a 500' LW. First night among 
others I head KSL, Salt Lake City Utah on it late at night. I've never heard 
that station again. I also logged about 75 different countries on it 
shortwave.

Bob Young
Millbury, Ma
various boatanchors (2) 400' LW's, Quantum Phaser


>From: Milspec390@xxxxxxx
>Reply-To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
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>To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [IRCA] Zenith radios
>Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:13:55 EDT
>
>Started DXng '62 w/tube Zenith T/O w/square dial. Our family had one as did
>close family friend, 'Uncle' Joe Lorenzo. Lorenzo set in basement study
>adjacent to blonde Philco TV. Lent Cold War surrealism to tense foreign 
>b'casts. Red
>twinlead tied T/O to Wavemagnet. You could practically see signals flash
>blinding white sparks as they bounced from sky to walls to Wavemagnet. 
>Indeed, many
>saw.....
>
>Tied our T/O in Pt. Judith RI to wire antenna strung out to tree, grounded 
>to
>pipe driven in salt tidal pond. Vistas opened. Ship/shore, air/ground,
>foreign SW BC's, US MW's busted in. Sold late '82 along w/RF-2800 for 
>second R-388,
>which runs 24/7. Probably buy another T/O w/in next year but not yours. If 
>you
>have one, keep it, fine asset, beautiful DX machine.
>
>Presently have Royal Crown 7000 T/O once owned by Jack McG____., former 
>State
>Dept. diplomat and drinking/poetry crony of father of lifelong friend,
>'Judge' Stephen. McG. gave T/O to 'Judge' Stephen's old man, who shortly 
>thereafter
>croaked. Prior to croaking, 'Judge' Stephen's old man, real life judge, 
>gave
>T/O to 'Judge' Stephen, who blared snot out of it nightly working as 
>dishwasher
>in college.
>
>Fall '84, Royal Crown 7000 T/O falls silent, 'Judge' Stephen disgusted &
>magnanimous. Tells undersigned: "Fix it, keep it". Complied. Presently 
>located in
>workroom/backup radio room/storm shelter. Works great barefoot, w/wire
>antennas or w/RatShak MW loop.
>
>Every receiver has a story.
>
>
>                 =Z.=
>
>pv zecchino
>manatransoceanic key, fl
>bt
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