Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[BassmanPaul]

Yep Luxemburg was another favourite. Medium wave band 208 something.

 

[mikeoso]

Here in the States we had "pirate" stations just over the border in Mexico that ran huge 250,000 watt power like XERF , and stations like KAAY in Little Rock that cranked up to 50,000 watts at sunset and blanketed the whole Mississippi Valley.

 

[beans-on-toast]

DX'ing AM radio at night was always fun. These days, I mostly hear religion stations.

 

[mikeoso]

DX'ing AM radio at night was always fun. These days, I mostly hear religion stations.

KAAY was a great rock and roll station in the early 60s...I got my first transistor radio for Christmas in 1961 and heard the Four Seasons on KAAY...Walk Like A Man, Dawn, Sherry...nowadays I hear it's all religion all the time. XERF was where Wolfman Jack started.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Laying in bed late at night, those handheld radios with the earphone were great.

I use a US made GE Superadio III. The same radio is produced in China with an RCA badge today. They are designed for long distance AM.

https://www.amazon.com/RCA-RP7887-Super-Radio-3/dp/B00120WRSU

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[LBS-bass]

DX'ing AM radio at night was always fun. These days, I mostly hear religion stations.

I was totally into this when I was a kid, what a geek I was. My dad was an EE and he made me a tunable antenna that I could put next to my old tube radio and pull in stations with. I kept a list of all the stations I heard by underlining them in an old, tattered copy of White's Radio Log. Did not bother with QSLs though.

Ah, many a night up until sunrise for the big skip. Don't know if those long nights led me to become the night owl I ended up, or I was just born a night person. But later on the music hours sure did suit me.

 

[beans-on-toast]

You sure are right about geeky kids into late night technical hobbies. The world was out there on the airwaves before the inter-web was even a thought.

I lived on the prairies, on cold winter nights I recall pulling a lot of stations, the band was packed. Shortwave was another playground. So was looking at the stars with a telescope.

During the day there was gazing into the blue sky and clouds, and watching the contrails of the SAC bombers heading to the Soviet border.

 

[GonePlaid]

Laying in bed late at night, those handheld radios with the earphone were great.

I use a US made GE Superadio III. The same radio is produced in China with an RCA badge today. They are designed for long distance AM.

https://www.amazon.com/RCA-RP7887-Super-Radio-3/dp/B00120WRSU

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My grandfather, originally from Indiana, had a Zenith that he could use to pull in Ft. Wayne, IN,-in Miami,FL.

 

[GonePlaid]

I was totally into this when I was a kid, what a geek I was. My dad was an EE and he made me a tunable antenna that I could put next to my old tube radio and pull in stations with. I kept a list of all the stations I heard by underlining them in an old, tattered copy of White's Radio Log. Did not bother with QSLs though.

Ah, many a night up until sunrise for the big skip. Don't know if those long nights led me to become the night owl I ended up, or I was just born a night person. But later on the music hours sure did suit me.

I did the late night skip thing on CB(post gig) in the mid 70s.

 

[SoulReflection]

I did the late night skip thing on CB(post gig) in the mid 70s.

Me too...back then I had a single side-band CB with 1/2 channels. Built a 4 element quad (wire) antenna and mounted it on a 36' telescoping tower. During skip conditions, talked regularly to contacts in Australia, most of the US and into Europe. All with the legal, 5 watts (no boot). Those were fun times .

 

[GwenOnBass]

Especially as we tuned to Radio Caroline!

Unsurprisingly, I dialed into Radio Gnome and saved it as a preset.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I did the late night skip thing on CB(post gig) in the mid 70s.

I still have my Radio Shack CB, indoor antenna, and antenna matching tuner packed away in a box....somewhere.

 

[mikeoso]

"In the beginning, there was the Word, and the Word was Clapton, and Clapton was God"

 

[GwenOnBass]

My grandfather, originally from Indiana, had a Zenith that he could use to pull in Ft. Wayne, IN,-in Miami,FL.

I found the reception in both Ft. Wayne and Miami welcoming. Peoples, that is. The radio was the reason for the tape deck
okay not in the 60s, the radio is where I listened to the music my parents didn't want me to hear.

 

[GwenOnBass]

"In the beginning, there was the Word, and the Word was Clapton, and Clapton was God"
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What happened that Clapton became the Montovani of the blues
:: runs, ducks, covers ::

 

[beans-on-toast]

"In the beginning, there was the Word, and the Word was Clapton, and Clapton was God"
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I like this story, especially at the end when Chas Chandler was describing Eric’s hands shaking.




Steve Winwood is so musical.

 

[beans-on-toast]

What happened that Clapton became the Montovani of the blues
:: runs, ducks, covers ::

For a long time he couldn’t get a good tone. He has hearing problems now but maybe he’s had them for a while.

Clapton has put out a lot of forgettable albums. But he has nothing to prove.

 

[SoulReflection]

Yep, time for a rest .

 

[mikeoso]

What happened that Clapton became the Montovani of the blues
:: runs, ducks, covers ::

Pattie left him.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I like this story, especially at the end when Chas Chandler was describing Eric’s hands shaking.




Steve Winwood is so musical.

Pleasure to watch that again. Yes, Jimi is that good.

Blind Faith is one of those go-to albums for me. And spent a great deal of time grokking on any and all things Traffic.