Its been nice knowing you all

[Bill O'Neill]

> I had one of those Zenith AM-FM radios when I was in college
> and for many
> years afterward. Both the AM and FM were excellent, and I
> believe that a
> side-by-side comparison with my GE Super Radio III (a very
> fine receiver by
> today's standards) would reveal the Zenith to be superior to
> the SR III in
> almost all respects on both AM and FM.

That's quite an endorsement I'd not expected. I actually own two of them. The
other I picked up at a yard sale about 20 years ago.  It works but occasionally
has an audio drop out and there's a very narrow bandwidth audio.  Tube theory
ain't my bag, but I think I'll try to tinker with it sometime just for fun.  I
also have a GE 1921 floor model radio purchased new by my grandparents at the
Bon Marche in Lowell that year.  Broadcast Band, SW1, SW2.  A speaker the size
of a satellite dish ;-) and decent sound.  I pre-dates whatever the smartie
engineering types invented so as to bring close and far stations into some sort
of leveling. So, the locals are very loud and the distants (beyong .25 mV/m it
seems) need a big of a volume tweak.  Not running a longwire, so I'm not getting
SW on it right now.  It still has the station names (Boston/Lowell) market over
the five "auto" preselects. WBZ, WEEI (590), WLAW (680), WHDH (850), WBZ (1030),
WLLH (1400).  I have to wonder if those were the dial positions in 1921.  I
don't think so.

Bill O'Neill