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There was a handful of large, posh and expensive range-topping pre-war HMV and Marconi radio sets that boasted extensive coverage including an "ultra short" 5-12m band, or up to 60MHz. ISTR the RF amp was KTW61 with X64 mixer, externally driven by Z66 LO and with 2 IF stages. I imagine that they would have not been made in huge numbers, it would be interesting to know how many survive and how well they perform. Presumably image rejection was poor on this band- but as there wouldn't have been a huge amount going on above 30MHz, it wouldn't have been an overwhelming problem. Drift might have been troublesome with a relatively narrow (even "fidelity" position) AM bandwidth though. Perhaps coverage to 60MHz represented optimistic future-proofing as to additional Band I channels.