[MrFixr55]

I was a field engineer for a biomedical company for many years. Many was the time that I was driving home from NYC in the middle of the night. Not wanting to listen to the overnight Art Bell Area 51 National Examiner type shows that inhabited NY AM radio, I would hit the tune button attempting to "DX". I also did this as a kid while trying to hop up an AA5 with a long wire antenna (I am a trained professional nut job, do not try this at home). Of course, I could pick up the clear channel stations and non-clear channel high power beamed stations like CKLW but, especially at night and in the fall, I could pick up regional stations, even small ones from the deep south. I never got into sending reports and receiving acknowledgments from the stations, but I marveled at the range of a car radio with an antenna that is no way near 1/4 wave in length. However, my real joy in the 80s was WNEW 1130 AM's Big Band sound (Not to be confused with "The Music of Your Life" stations like WHLI 1100, a local station. WNEW ran programs with the original Intro music like Make Believe Ballroom, Jukebox Saturday Night and Milkman's Matinee. I loved my parents' music more than rock. Maybe this is part of my draw to old radios, but I grew up with this hobby.