Re: Old-time police band (Was Re: MARTI)

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 16 Apr 99,  Martin J. Waters wrote:

>         You see some antique radios from the '30s that are all set to
> receive today's AM ex-band because they tune up to 1700, with the
> 1600-1700 section of the dial marked police. A neat package -- broadcast
> receiver and police "scanner" of that era built into one.

I remember having a radio like that in the 1950s.  Whenever I tuned to 
that part of the band, I got nothing.  My father's explanation was 
something like, "I think the short wave tube is broken."  Right.



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