Talk:Transistor radio
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An event mentioned in this article is an October 18 selected anniversary.
The article currently says of the early transistor radio:
- "These radios, of course, were monaural and limited to the FM band."
If memory serves, this is a typo for AM, no? Opus33 03:23, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Oh, my goodness gracious. <blush> Yes, of course. How could I have ever said that? Those early transistors were just barely capable of handling signals in the 550-1600 kilocycle broadcast band and couldn't have done squat at 88 megacycles. (Note period reference to "cycles."). Dpbsmith 13:43, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Kilocycles
Transistor radios could not have possibly received the "530-1600 kilohertz AM broadcast band" in 1954, as there was no such thing as a hertz in 1954. It is like saying that Captain Cook landed in the State of Hawaii.
After correcting the detail that the low end was 540, not 530, I see only four basic ways to phrase this accurately.
- the 540-1600 kilocycle AM broadcast band, i.e. don't explain kilocycles at all;
- the 540-1600 "kilocycle" AM broadcast band, i.e. hint at an explanation
- the 540-1600 kilocycle (as the kilohertz was then called) AM broadcast band, i.e. explain what a kilocycle was;
- the broadcast band, the range of frequencies now designated 540-1600 kilohertz i.e. avoid the obsolete term but make it clear that the modern term was not used.
We can't use a phrasing like "what is now known as the 540-1600 kilohertz broadcast band," because it now extends up to 1700 kHz.
I'm trying the simplest alternative (no explanation). Dpbsmith (talk) 23:34, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)