Picked one of these up at a local antique auction the other day.
It needs a some wiring changed out and a good cleaning. The old solder is a bitch to clean out. Got it for $30. The picture is not the one I bought.
Picked one of these up at a local antique auction the other day.
It needs a some wiring changed out and a good cleaning. The old solder is a bitch to clean out. Got it for $30. The picture is not the one I bought.
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Hey, cool!
My grandmother had one just like it in her basement in San Francisco for years. I think it was the nucleus around which my interest in radios crystalized.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
Oh, a crystal radio?
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XCool find. You'll also enjoy the wood finishing aspect to restoring this beautiful classic.
Fake edit: I cut my teeth on a Zenith Trans Oceanic when I was about 3.
Push button Tuning? It kinda looks like a Ford Car Radio mounted in a box.Picked one of these up at a local antique auction the other day.
It needs a some wiring changed out and a good cleaning. The old solder is a bitch to clean out. Got it for $30. The picture is not the one I bought.
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Did any of you pick up on the fact that the thing appears to receive LF in addition to AM BC?
If the set does in fact cover 180-545KHz (and those dial markings aren't "Meters", corresponding to the BC frequency range), it makes me wonder if the receiver isn't a Euro-specific model. They have an LF broadcast allocation.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
I did, because my father and I hung a LF antenna in my grandmother's back yard. There wasn't much on there but various beacons.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Our parallel histories scare the crap out of me. ;)
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of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
250-280KHz is home to a goodly number of Mediterranean LF broadcasters. One of these runs in excess of 2 megawatts output; I've heard the station in Ohio using a marginal setup.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
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