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In the Thread: Crane Radio CCE2
Post Subject: Distant MemoriesPosted by Paul S on: 10/5/2024
When I started "serious" FM (about 55 years ago...) I was in the heart of Los Angeles, and the big problem was selectivity, also our "best" classical station was 90% crap, and our best jazz station was 65% crap. Then I moved to Corvallis, Oregon, and there was NOTHING worth the effort that I could find. Ten years later, i returned to SoCal/San Diego, and over the years, wherever I lived, reception was pretty much impossible, not to mention crappy programming and broadcasts. As I said in the initial post, I presently live in a hilly area. Pretty much any antenna is a crap shoot here, including giant masts. So it's funny that on the first day I got the CC2E radio I listened to a great classical station from over 100 miles north of here for 2 days before it cut out, and I have never been able to get it cleanly again since then. Meanwhile, I finally got lucky (at last!) to have decent stations I can actually get. Regarding "poor reception", many years ago, a couple of my hi-fi and FM gurus had giant masts and motorized antennas. I tried a rank version of this in Oregon, but it never panned out, and I never went farther than an amplified Terk (or similar) in San Diego, mostly because it did not seem to be worth the effort for the crummy programming and lousy broadcast standards. Regarding what's available where one lives, if nothing has changed over time then DXers are typically very generous with their findings, and if you see a mast sticking up then there might well be a guy listening below it who will share information. Obviously, the horizon is a problem, for sure, but I have been amazed how resourceful "Radio People" can be.
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