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From: ray@cs.rochester.edu (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Radio Shack
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Date: 9 Feb 88 15:55:51 GMT
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In article <5431@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> coltoff@PRC.Unisys.COM (Joel Coltoff) writes:
>I have been noticing a trend lately that I thought I would
>pass along. The June 1987 issue of QST magazine had an article
>on how to turn a Radio Shack Weather Radio into a scanning
>2 meter receiver. The Feb 1988 issue of Astronomy magazine has
>an article that show how to turn a normal clock (the author
>used a Radio Shack clock) into a sidereal clock. Now on the
>surface it doesn't seem that these two projects have much in
>common. The interesting point is that they both turn items from
>Radio Shack into something that is useful.
>
>	- Joel

I've taken cheap FM receivers purchased at garage sales for a buck or two
and turned them into weather radios.  It is just a matter of playing
around with the FM tuning coil and cliping out a capacitor across the
FM tuning capacitor.  The weather in this area is 162.4MH.

As an aside, occasionally I see some Radio Shack bashing going on.  But
we would all be hard pressed to find all those little odds and ends that
we gaget and electronics junkies need on occasion.  I don't know of any
single store in this area that can supply me with these odds and ends 
like Radio Shack does.  Just go out and try buying a 2.5 ohm 40 watt power
resistor on the spare of the moment at 8 PM without going to Radio Shack.

ray