The Ford Barn

FrankWest · 10-09-2015, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by rotorwrench

Vacuum tubes are resistant to EMP burst from nuclear weapons detonations or high energy weapons.

Well done! You are correct! Semiconductors are not very survivable with em bursts. The particle bursts contaminate the junction layers, basically destroying their very properties..Tubes are not affected unless you melt the filaments..then you are too close for anything to survive.

Mike51Merc · 10-09-2015, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by big job

Just rambling, when I worked for a bus co. my company car was a 1949 fordor I drove
many a years. What sticks out in my mind was, that radio picked up stations thousands
miles away. Wheeling W.Va bombed in like next door. W- INS in NY Arnold woo woo
Ginsburg remember him, bombed in like next door. Another thing I won't forget was
instrument gauges glowed or was like neon: Impressive. Also the car 6Vt pos gr had a
quite massive two way Motorola radio (in the trunk). Oh yea I'm guilty of breaking couple starter
bendix's cause you couldn't hear or feel the motor running 8BA with overdrive too.
I left the co. in 1977 and all now is gone. I think It had a Leece Neville alternator or
something, most likely that the Motorola dealer installed..............

AM radio travels much further than FM (because it bounces along the earth's surface). Short wave travels around the globe.

wbedwards · 10-09-2015, 10:52 AM

I got mine working the other night on the bench. I ran just a long wire out of the shop as an antenna just to try it out. I was listening to Mexican stations for a while. I don't think they were local.

castiron · 10-09-2015, 11:33 AM

Does anyone knows where to get a curved glas for the 36 radio head?

39topless · 10-09-2015, 11:46 AM

Growing up in Bozeman, Montana, the only radio station we could get that played rock and roll was, KOMA. Now that Oklahoma station must have had some POWER!

Seth Swoboda · 10-09-2015, 12:16 PM

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I have a 1946, 3 passenger coupe with a radio. The antenna is a mast type mounted on the side of the cowl. It mounts in two places the bottom and then up a few inches further. Is this an after market antenna mounting or did Ford mount a radio antenna there? I thought that Ford mounted the antenna above the windshield center of roof.

wbedwards · 10-09-2015, 01:33 PM

Growing up in the south, at night all we had was WLS out of Chicago. I didn't get an FM radio until the early 70s and it was a converter for my old am radio in my Ford.

Seth Swoboda · 10-09-2015, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by wbedwards

Growing up in the south, at night all we had was WLS out of Chicago. I didn't get an FM radio until the early 70s and it was a converter for my old am radio in my Ford.

Could you get AM 1120 KMOX out of St. Louis?

tubman · 10-09-2015, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by wbedwards

I got mine working the other night on the bench. I ran just a long wire out of the shop as an antenna just to try it out. I was listening to Mexican stations for a while. I don't think they were local.

They might have been; are you in an agricultural area? When I lived in Prior Lake, MN (30 SW of the twin cities and 30 miles north of the "Jolly Green Giant" realm, just about all of the AM stations were Spanish, because of the migrant workers in the area.

As an aside, I have the DeLuxe, 8-tube, 6 pushbutton radio in my '51. It may be a little later that yours, but it works great and sounds terrific. That is, if there are any AM stations around. The few that were are either disappearing or changing format, as above. In my area at least, a good working AM radio is useless.

FrankWest · 10-09-2015, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike51Merc

AM radio travels much further than FM (because it bounces along the earth's surface). Short wave travels around the globe.

Interesting stuff....

JSeery · 10-09-2015, 03:02 PM

Yep, good to know you can keep driving and playing the radio in a nuk-blast LOL! It is interesting to ponder who much of our electronic world would be knocked out with even a high altitude air burst.

wbedwards · 10-09-2015, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Seth Swoboda

Could you get AM 1120 KMOX out of St. Louis?

Seems like I remember that one, but that was 43 years ago

wbedwards · 10-09-2015, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by tubman

They might have been; are you in an agricultural area? When I lived in Prior Lake, MN (30 SW of the twin cities and 30 miles north of the "Jolly Green Giant" realm, just about all of the AM stations were Spanish, because of the migrant workers in the area.

As an aside, I have the DeLuxe, 8-tube, 6 pushbutton radio in my '51. It may be a little later that yours, but it works great and sounds terrific. That is, if there are any AM stations around. The few that were are either disappearing or changing format, as above. In my area at least, a good working AM radio is useless.

I'm roughly 30miles out of town. The set in my '59 only has 4 tubes in it.

Brendan · 10-09-2015, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike51Merc

AM radio travels much further than FM (because it bounces along the earth's surface). Short wave travels around the globe.

its called "skip" the frequency bounces off the ionosphere, its like a big mirror

CarlG · 10-09-2015, 03:14 PM

When I was in college (a hundred or so years ago), driving home from Phoenix to Las Cruces, I could always tune in to "XEG - The friendly voice of North America". An English speaking station physically located somewhere in Mexico. Didn't have to change stations the whole 8+ hour trip.

Brendan · 10-09-2015, 03:16 PM

I love to listen to old country and rockabilly music on a vacuum tube radio!

Brendan · 10-09-2015, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by CarlG

When I was in college (a hundred or so years ago), driving home from Phoenix to Las Cruces, I could always tune in to "XEG - The friendly voice of North America". An English speaking station physically located somewhere in Mexico. Didn't have to change stations the whole 8+ hour trip.

Wolfman Jack was a DJ on that station

tonydennisadw · 10-09-2015, 07:02 PM

mine works fin with a good stock antenna ... luckily we have a 50s station in am... learned long ago dont park with radio on... also back then and now later it gets other stations come in stronger and your station floats in and out......

Pete · 10-09-2015, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by CarlG

When I was in college (a hundred or so years ago), driving home from Phoenix to Las Cruces, I could always tune in to "XEG - The friendly voice of North America". An English speaking station physically located somewhere in Mexico. Didn't have to change stations the whole 8+ hour trip.

A lot of the southern stations had their transmitters in Mexico with studios in the USA.
They could run a half megawatt of power down there while stations located in the USA were limited to 50K watts.

Fordestes · 10-09-2015, 10:48 PM

39 Topless, K.O.M.A kicked out 50,000 watts for many years, the old station site had the towers blown down by the last killer tornado, we used to listen to it on our washing machine tub when the lid was left open, I was raised within 3 blocks from the old station in Moore Okla. we used to listen to K.O.M.A in globe Arizona also.

10-09-2015, 10:52 AM	#23
wbedwards Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Birmingham, Al. Posts: 339	Re: Cars with original radios I got mine working the other night on the bench. I ran just a long wire out of the shop as an antenna just to try it out. I was listening to Mexican stations for a while. I don't think they were local.

10-09-2015, 11:33 AM	#24
castiron Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: Sweden Posts: 31	Re: Cars with original radios Does anyone knows where to get a curved glas for the 36 radio head?

10-09-2015, 11:46 AM	#25
39topless Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 1,027	Re: Cars with original radios Growing up in Bozeman, Montana, the only radio station we could get that played rock and roll was, KOMA. Now that Oklahoma station must have had some POWER!

10-09-2015, 12:16 PM	#26
Seth Swoboda Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 3,795	Re: Cars with original radios Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) I have a 1946, 3 passenger coupe with a radio. The antenna is a mast type mounted on the side of the cowl. It mounts in two places the bottom and then up a few inches further. Is this an after market antenna mounting or did Ford mount a radio antenna there? I thought that Ford mounted the antenna above the windshield center of roof.

10-09-2015, 01:33 PM	#27
wbedwards Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Birmingham, Al. Posts: 339	Re: Cars with original radios Growing up in the south, at night all we had was WLS out of Chicago. I didn't get an FM radio until the early 70s and it was a converter for my old am radio in my Ford.

10-09-2015, 03:02 PM	#31
JSeery Member Emeritus Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Wichita KS Posts: 16,132	Re: Cars with original radios Yep, good to know you can keep driving and playing the radio in a nuk-blast LOL! It is interesting to ponder who much of our electronic world would be knocked out with even a high altitude air burst.

10-09-2015, 03:14 PM	#35
CarlG Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Anchorage, Alaska Posts: 9,115	Re: Cars with original radios When I was in college (a hundred or so years ago), driving home from Phoenix to Las Cruces, I could always tune in to "XEG - The friendly voice of North America". An English speaking station physically located somewhere in Mexico. Didn't have to change stations the whole 8+ hour trip. __________________ Alaskan A's Antique Auto Mushers of Alaska Model A Ford Club of America Model A Restorers Club Antique Automobile Club of America Mullins Owner's Club

10-09-2015, 03:16 PM	#36
Brendan Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: At my kitchen table in Santa Rosa, Ca Posts: 2,903	Re: Cars with original radios I love to listen to old country and rockabilly music on a vacuum tube radio! __________________ If it would have been a snake it would have bit ya! i can't spell my way out of a paper bag!

10-09-2015, 07:02 PM	#38
tonydennisadw Senior Member Join Date: May 2015 Location: sw ohio Posts: 130	Re: Cars with original radios mine works fin with a good stock antenna ... luckily we have a 50s station in am... learned long ago dont park with radio on... also back then and now later it gets other stations come in stronger and your station floats in and out......

10-09-2015, 10:48 PM	#40
Fordestes Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 886	Re: Cars with original radios 39 Topless, K.O.M.A kicked out 50,000 watts for many years, the old station site had the towers blown down by the last killer tornado, we used to listen to it on our washing machine tub when the lid was left open, I was raised within 3 blocks from the old station in Moore Okla. we used to listen to K.O.M.A in globe Arizona also.