When I was 13 and we lived in North London, I had my first real portable radio - a little Stella radio with Medium and Long Wave.
At that time, the UK pirate radio stations had just been shut down and I spent time trying to listen to Radio Veronica, a Dutch station that could barely be received.
I fixed this by placing my radio on the carpet on the first floor by the wall between the front and rear main bedrooms. There was a light switch and loads of other 240V wiring that passed up the wall between those two rooms and it acted like a signal booster for my little radio. There was a lot of interference but I do remember "Reflections" by Diana Ross and The Supremes coming through loud, if not clear, on Radio Veronica (Vee-ron-i-caa as they used to say) with my radio sat there.
This is a bit like revisiting those days.