Date:         Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:00:07 -0400
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Subject:      Re: FM reception way back when
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Roger and Allison Kulp wrote:
> I am not sure what you mean,by "way back when",and I don't know if this was unusual,but a kid,in the 70s,as a kid,I lived in a rural area,of Maryland,up near the Baltimore/Carrol County line,but I was able to pick up,and very clearly,FM stations,from Northern Virginia, without the use of an antenna,I may add.
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> Roger

1960, as in my original post (way down at the bottom). We were also subject to 
interference (frying noise) from cars with faulty ignition, and another little 
irritation..CHFI at that time was constantly being drowned out by communication 
between airline pilots and what was then Malton Airport.

dl
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> --- On Mon, 10/6/08, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] FM reception way back when
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 8:09 AM
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> I grew up in lower Westchester and we never had this problem with a roof-top
> antenna, except on 
> Channel 2 during the annual solar activity in the late summer and early fall.
> Reception was great, 
> especially after the World Trade Center was built. We were on a height of land
> point on the border 
> of Harrison and White Plains. I didn't know from cable TV until I lived
> upstate after college. FM 
> reception was also excellent, with just a plain dipole tacked to the wall. FM
> content was another 
> matter, I grew up in the late 70's and 80's so it was already headed
> down the toilet but was much 
> better than the unlistenable FM dial of today. I now live in an area that is a
> true fringe zone (far 
> enough north of NYC to not get any stations from the Empire State building and
> far enough east of 
> the Hudson to miss the Hudson Valley stations and on the back-slope of a big
> hill so no line of 
> sight to much unless I wanted to build a tall tower out back, which is not in
> the cards) so I do 
> very little radio listening anymore. If the content were more compelling and
> there were no internet 
> streams, I might reconsider the tower idea, but such is not the case.
> 
> -- Tom Fine
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Weiner" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 9:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] FM reception way back when
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> 
>> I like the accuracy of the current TV show MAD MEN, which takes place in
>> 1962. The main family lives in Westchester and whenever we see the parents
>> or kids watching TV, the reception is a bit off - slight double images,
>> occasional snow - just as it would have been then using a rooftop TV
> antenna
>> from such a distance from New York City.
>>
>> Dave W.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Lennick
>> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 12:59 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] FM reception way back when
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>> Anyone remember similar experiences to this? I'm just listening to a
> tape
>> made
>> in 1960 (I recorded it, in fact) off the CBC's FM station in Toronto,
> and
>> while
>> the quality is excellent and free from interference, every so often
> there's
>> a
>> brief series of clicks..because someone elsewhere in the house changed the
>> television channel.
>>
>> We were a family of tape fiends. Schedules were noted..taping off AM was
>> even
>> worse, since light switches, television, running the dishwasher, opening
> the
>> fridge, just about anything involving electricity would cause clicks,
>> buzzing,
>> static, whistle etc. As my mother frequently replied, "I can't
> pee in the
>> dark."
>>
>> dl
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