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From: Steven Coles
Date: 9/4/99
Time: 11:01:06 PM
Remote Name: 207.149.222.90
Just built a 2-tube set from a 1953 Cub Scout Lion Handbook. I'm listening to KIXI 880 kHz with good volume as I type. Get 6 stations without an antenna tuner. Low distortion which I can't figure as the set has no cathode bias resistors. Sharp tuning without traps (due to tubes' high input Z). Glow bugs do have a certain charm. Oops! Just heard some other station fade in and out. Guess I should check for DX. Hate to leave KIXI. They're playing some lovely easy listening and movie themes. Much better than the cranks I have to listen to while waiting for a DX station to ID.
Steven
From: ken ko6rk
Date: 3/19/99
Time: 6:59:22 PM
Remote Name: 134.71.51.215
A 12inch 1940 speaker fills the room and can be heard 40 feet away in Long Beach ca tuned to 640 kfi about 20miles away ant is single turn loop 15X40feet ---choose speaker and transformer from box of over 40 used from radios and tv back to the 1930'S---also heard KOA denver using same antenna headed east & west also hears knx1070 and orher local on speaker but not as loud. we also hear sandiego in the day--100miles ken