WCOZ/WCAS DJ and "FM underground" pioneer Larry Millerreturnstothe air!

[Doug Drown]

My first FM car radio was an Audiovox converter, which I bought for my '63
LeSabre back when I was in college --- 1970 or thereabouts.  If I recall
correctly, I had to tune the AM to a certain frequency or blank spot on the
dial, then push a button.  Worked like a charm.

While we're on this subject, I think we were the first family in Ashburnham
to put up a UHF antenna, back when WIHS-TV 38 went on the air and WJZB-TV 14
was still running out of Worcester.  My uncle, who lived in Schenectady,
gave us his old Fada UHF converter, which he didn't need after WCDA-TV 41
and WTRI-TV 35 moved to VHF and became WTEN and WAST (now WNYT)
respectively.  We used it for several years, then put it in a yard sale when
we bought a new TV with a UHF dial.  Lo and behold, I was in Westminster one
day about five years ago, stopped at a yard sale, and there was my uncle's
old Fada converter.  I should have bought it back --- it's such a nostalgic
oddity, it'd probably be worth money.  I've never seen another one.

Doug


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
To: "Larry Weil" <kc1ih@mac.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 6:16 PM
Subject: RE: WCOZ/WCAS DJ and "FM underground" pioneer Larry
Millerreturnstothe air!


> <<On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 18:13:43 -0400, Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com> said:
>
> > In the 60's an FM radio in a car was an oddity.  I didn't have my
> > first FM car radio until 1973, it was a manually tuned (with a dial)
> > Audiovox that I bought at a stereo store.  FM radios as factory
> > equipment didn't become popular until later in the 70's as I recall.
>
> And FM radios remained optional for quite some time.  I remember the
> first car my parents bought with FM standard was in 1987.  (It
> replaced a 1983 model which was AM-only.)
>
> -GAWollman
>
>