Ratboy, thanks for the response.
Well you MIGHT of seen some of my other postings in the past of some of my "Shortwave radio scores" of buying and selling equipment, some of them not cheap, but in this day of scanners getting encrypted even some mil comms getting encrypted on sw I don't feel the need to buy a sw receiver that is expensive or really good.
Hence the Aircastle radio I just bought, it Is simple single conversion with ps bands and aircraft bands, with the other SW sets I'm had with SSB, I really never used ssb.
It got kind of boring listening to hams chatter about the weather and stuff like that.
For milcoms on SSB, I could never hear them, some with the sat800, Eton e1 but few and far between. I guess I didn't search hard enough but BC SW and AM BC DX'ing is what I did so selling the Eton E5 (bought it for 54.00 sold it for 120.00 on fleabay) was logical as to not to spend that much money.
I just wanted an older vintage SW basic set, I love the vintage radios a lot better than the newer ones. Something about them. I only paid 37.00 for the Aircastle on fleabay.
so the basic SW and the pluses are : aircraft band I can stil monitor and if I pickup something on the ps bands as well as AM BC DX'ing is fine with me.
But what attracted me to this particular model was the vertical arrangement, the bands, and the general look of it down to the lighted (sounds stupid but I like them) band modes.
and it is a "NON-IC" setup no intergrated circuit chips. Retro? maybe I'm feeling nostalgic a simpler time and we still back then could pull in signals with a simple sw receiver without the bells and whistles of today.
Below is a picture of the "Lighted" radio, I have yet to receive my radio, just bought it Sat on fleabay.
I did buy a Realistic Jetstream AM/Air radio that was made in 1967 on fleabay as well, I want to restore that one, paint and all.
BTW this is the Allied, same radio as the Aircastle, I just found it... The Radio is from 1969. The price was 89.99 in 1969. So I wonder what that equates to 2013?
Solid State Eight Band 2682 Radio Allied Radio Corp.
Herculodge: Angelo's Allied 2682 Multi-Band Radio
Popular Mechanics - Google Books
Popular Mechanics - Google Books
Antique Radio Forums • View topic - Allied 2682 -- 19 transistor, 8 band -- service info?
And youtube vids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_wenMfoEw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIx-eNU0slo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQFf4LXnsBQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mGNngtXJs4
Ok so there it is , I answered my own question, well in case others need info it is here.
ok, sorry for my rant.
Thanks,
Jim