{"id":49469,"date":"2021-07-03T07:22:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T11:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49469"},"modified":"2021-07-03T07:22:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T11:22:14","slug":"the-beam-box-model-fm-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/the-beam-box-model-fm-10\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beam Box Model FM 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Paul, who recently shared a link to this Craigslist listing<\/a> and asked if anyone in the SWLing Post<\/em> community might be familiar with this Beam Box Electronically Directable FM Antenna.<\/p>\n

He included a link to the following review in an archived issue of Radio-Electronics:
\nhttps:\/\/worldradiohistory.com\/Archive-Radio-Electronics\/70s\/1978\/Radio-Electronics-1978-03.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

The Cragslist post actually included the following images of the owner’s manual:<\/p>\n

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\n\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>I’ll admit that I’m not at all familiar with this antenna, but I see how it might have been ideal for a component system. I’m curious if it was FM DX-worthy!<\/p>\n

Please comment if you’ve ever owned the Beam Box!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul, who recently shared a link to this Craigslist listing and asked if anyone in the SWLing Post community might be familiar with this Beam Box Electronically Directable FM Antenna. He included a link to the following review in an archived issue of Radio-Electronics: https:\/\/worldradiohistory.com\/Archive-Radio-Electronics\/70s\/1978\/Radio-Electronics-1978-03.pdf The Cragslist post actually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3607,3781,3],"tags":[1584,8268,9349],"class_list":["post-49469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-fm","category-news","tag-fm","tag-fm-antenna","tag-the-beam-box-fm-10"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cRT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26543,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/ed-rediscovers-lafayette-radio-electronics\/","url_meta":{"origin":49469,"position":0},"title":"Ed rediscovers Lafayette Radio Electronics","author":"Thomas","date":"June 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ed, who shared the following message after I posted the Mystery Radio Challenge yesterday: I could tell that FM tuner is actually an 'FM converter' by its shape and by the giveaway wide knurled tuning bar mounted way up front, so the driver of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Lafayette-Catalog-Front.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":63237,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/wa2xmn-revives-armstrongs-legacy-with-90th-anniversary-broadcast-on-42-8-mhz\/","url_meta":{"origin":49469,"position":1},"title":"WA2XMN Revives Armstrong\u2019s Legacy with 90th Anniversary Broadcast on 42.8 MHz","author":"Thomas","date":"June 20, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Conrad Trautmann, who shares the following guest post: 42.8 MHz WA2XMN FM Goes On The Air! 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