Mine was an Eico 711 space ranger communications reciver. They had cool names back then. Remember making several wiring errors, was a kid way back then . I think I had two of the bands switched on the wafer switch. My dad taught electronics and had a guy that I guess was electronics geek in his night class, He had aligned the radio with wwv. and other radios had it dead on . Remember ssb, even heard barry goldwater on onetime. pirate station favorite was catching the top ten on wnyc. new york radio . catching some ssb of aircraft, even some short tranmission miltary stuff, seem to come in at odd places between broadcast bands. numbers stations . I remember as a kid I knew all the foreign captials . propaganda of mao on radio china. religious pirate staation s on 40meters. One guy would blow a shofar, sounds pretty legit , then start in on replaceing the liberty statue with the anti christ, statue . Used to be a guy on the old marine band that would give weather reports to ships at sea . way before weathe channel . I sold it regret., got dx440 . still have, but use mostly for fm now .memories kg4ymc terry .