Re: Today's L(garble)T(garble)A(garble)R

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

If you're serious about AM dXing, you need a more 
selective radio, which would not pick up WPRO or WSM on 
630. Too late for Christmas, but if you've got the money 
(should be less than $65, and with luck about $45) or if 
your folks want to give you a not-Christmas present, 
look for a GE Super Radio III. The quality varies from 
unit to unit, suggesting that wherever you shop, you 
should look for a place that has a good exchange policy. 
If you get a good SR III, it's dollar for dollar the 
best choice for AM DX. There are many better radios, but 
they cost a lot more.

Radio Shack has an SR III clone, and I guess that if you 
can find one that works well, it's as good as the SR 
III, but I understand that the RS unit has such awful 
quality that it makes the SR III seem to have been 
assembled by Malcolm Baldrige himself. Serious DXers who 
are also proficient with soldering on pc-boards and with 
aligning radios have attacked the RS unit, and those 
with enough skill, time, patience, and appropriate tools 
have been able to make it perform as it was designed to, 
which is very well. But when most people spend $50 or 
$60 on a radio, they don't want to spend weeks making it 
work satisfactorily.
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> You can hear stations over WNNZ at night in Chicopee..
> WSM comes in.. and 630 its usually WPRO.