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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Oh yeah, lots of fun. My school years were in the 60s and I remember listening to the radio late at night trying to pick up stations hundreds of miles away. After high school, I got a shortwave for even greater listening options.
Now it's easy to listen to pretty much any broadcast thanks to the internet.
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My dad brought home an old wooden SWR that was probably over 36 inches tall with a huge speaker in it. It had a round dial like a clock and the smaller hand was the fine tuning while the big hand got you into the band you wanted to listen to. My brother and I put up a 100 foot longwire antenna and listened in on broadcasts from around the globe. That was in the mid 1960s when SWR was still king! I don’t remember what happened to that old radio, but I sure wished I still had it. There is very little SWR being broadcast anymore, and most of that is from holy roly preachers in the USA. When the solar cycle is active I listen in on the ham HF bands, but I rarely bother with SWR anymore. I still remember listening in to the Louisiana Hayride on Saturday nights in the 1960s, and even the Grand O’le Opry sometimes, as far as AM went. Too many restrictions today though that prevents those powerful stations from operating at those levels.