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So I found my dad's old SW radio, a Panasonic RF-5000A from the late 60s. I played around with it for a short time, but not knowing much about radio aside from my physics student knowledge I figured I'd ask you guys about it.    I hosed around for an hour or two trying to find stuff to listen to, but I couldn't really hear much aside from faint voices through heavy static, a distorted NPR broadcast, and the local high-power AM station. I'm positive I'm using it incorrectly, but I couldn't even seem to pick up the "time standard" radio station (WWV?) that I looked up on Wikipedia. For what it's worth, I'm within visual line-of-sight of the biggest transmitter farm in the Cleveland area, and I can see tons of blinking red lights at night from said antennae. What do the buttons in the last image do? Which ones should I have turned on and when? What position should the antenna(s) be in for best reception? I definitely noticed a change when I touched it (IIRC the human body can act as an antenna sometimes) but I couldn't figure much else beyond that. It has a loop antenna and two whip antennas, one slightly bigger than the other. Is it worth pursuing anything else with this lead brick of a radio, or should I relegate it to the "curiosity" pile? If I can get some good listening from just buying a cheap external antenna, then I'll stick with it; but if it's so outdated that it's not worth it then I'll just stick it back in the closet and forget about it. Luneshot fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Jul 13, 2015 |
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