RCA Victor score

[Einar72]

Nice score on the RCA! Take care of it and you will have a companion for life.

Nifty-looking Sangean. Too bad it isn't made here, so me no buy. Makes it a no-brainer to keep buying, restoring and enjoying the ones that were.

AM radio was such a treat for an only child growing up in the 1960's. My dad bought me a Hallicrafters S-22R after a Philco 615 failed and a Zenith console proved too weak to DX with. Later, an S-120, and in 1969, I took my paper-route profits and bought a Lafayette HA-600. What a P.O.S that turned out to be.

I spent hundreds of hours DX'ing stations from Honolulu to New Orleans. Always top-40 music to enjoy. Never a disparaging word, just spread-spectrum interference from the Sears TV in the living room and the oil-burning furnace in the basement.

Sad to say, nothing proves the old adage "you can't go back" better than a visit to AM radio these days. Hundreds of gasbags fill the airwaves, the majority spewing lies and filth hardly fit for the ears of a child. Almost any station playing an all-music format does so with eqipment, not live, entertaining personalities. And more commercials than ever. R.I.P AM radio.