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Back when I had cash flow, I liked to collect the radios that I grew up with: Panasonics toot a loop, the ball and chain radio and early Sonys.
I think collecting transistor radios can be just as fun as collecting them catalin and tube puppies. I often listen to local sports on the radio before watching it on TV. There's just some kind of romance about hearing it coming over the airways and not piped in via cable. Perhaps it goes back to when I made a crystal radio and couldn't believe what I was hearing sans batteries. |
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Paula wrote: "Dammit, if something is called a 'ruby', it should be red!"
Did you know that if a *ruby* is anything other than a true red (if it's pink or faint in color), that it is considered to be sapphire? When our radio station signed on in '71, we handed out thousands of free promotional Sony FM radios that were little avocado colored cubes. Pressing on a bar would switch on the radio and there was a seperate volume control. Of course, they had soldered in crystals that locked them to our station. They also sported round "Hitparade '71" stickers on their sides. Wish I had one of those things!
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I wonder how much one of them radios would fetch on Epay today! |
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them ball and chain radios are worth some bucks to collectors. If I had the cash I would buy one just for fun!
I think it's way cool to listen to the radios we grew up with. I mean, that's why we like music now, right? |
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Paula-
Too bad you missed my auction on this book- Last edited by Charlie; 03-26-2006 at 02:50 PM. |
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Re: Update: The Ruby has landed!
mine had all the lytics open and replacement cured it.
btw are you coming to hamvention? Quote:
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I did, however, take your advice and pick up a copy of The Portable Radio In American Life by Michael Brian Schiffer. It just arrived on Tuesday, and I'm already a third of the way thru it -- really fascinating! Paula |
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cool.a gal thats not afraid of a soldering iron
hamvention is in dayton may 15-17 . and modern lytics will fit no problem. i bought a bunch of ultra subminis from the thompson club at the last indy hamfest.
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"(BTW: Nothing smells worse than a selenium rectifier going bad!)"
Yeah ?? Try a 20 foot high stack of pea straw fermenting in the July sun. Trust me the rectifier is a mere fart in comparison. They both share the same basic odor but that pile of pea straw is the olfactory equivalent of 300,000 beer farts being released simultaneously. I have smelled both and trust me ... The pea Straw wins by a mile ( Yes you can smell it that far away. ) |
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