I have had an MR78 with the MPI4 scope since 1973, and I used to use them a lot. I have always had a large antenna on a rotator (not the same antenna and rotator I have now as I have moved a few times since then) and it was great DXing. I used to stay up to all hours of the morning looking to see how distant a station I could pick up.
The reason I hardly use it now is FM RADIO POSITIVELY SUCKS THESE DAYS.
The signals are all over-modulated and compressed, and the rap-crap, hip hop, loud lousy so called musical program material is absolutely unlistenable.
The only show I listen to regularly on FM is the NPR program, "Car Talk"--and that isn't even music!
When one of my friends and I were in high school, we had an underground FM radio station.
Last edited by GaryProtein; 07-06-2012 at 11:10 PM.
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