Ron Rosenfeld wrote:

But I've not seen a garden-variety AM receiver that would tune to 260. If
you know of one, please let me know. The one's I've seen don't go much
below the AM broadcast band.

Good point; I forgot about that. If you are seriously interested in
going this route you might check out the various shortwave receivers
that are available. Radio Scrap used to have a fairly decent one that
didn't cost too much, but that might be too geekish a product for anyone
to carry any more.

Tim