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On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 06:27:04 UTC, Fox's Mercantile wrote:
On 3/5/18 11:42 PM, Ron D. wrote:


There was, sort of, I had a valve car Blaupunkt radio
whose dial was graduated in increasing wavelength (Not
frequency). That's the a RPN (reverse Polish Notation)
radio vs an Algebraic radio that everyone uses.


I have an American made AA5 in the shop that is also
graduated in wavelength rather than frequency.

But my personal favorite is one with 1500 on the left and
550 on the right.


I have radios marked 0-10 or 0-100. They're fun to use.


NT