Friday, February 24, 2006
Radio days
Interested in old electronics? Or, like me, do you have a couple of old radios from the 30s and 40s and you want to know what makes them work? Find out from one of the excellent books posted here.
I only buy working radios (although in a startling reversal, I'm thinking of buying a non-working radio with a nice case and turning it into an Internet radio that plays nothing but Radio Dismuke all the time), and I love the sound of the tubes warming up on my 1939 GE console radio. Hummm... and then presto, baseball. Because my radio only gets one station: WKBW. Oldies and the Bisons. Which, considering the dearth of good radio in the region anyway (let alone AM radio) isn't half bad.
I only buy working radios (although in a startling reversal, I'm thinking of buying a non-working radio with a nice case and turning it into an Internet radio that plays nothing but Radio Dismuke all the time), and I love the sound of the tubes warming up on my 1939 GE console radio. Hummm... and then presto, baseball. Because my radio only gets one station: WKBW. Oldies and the Bisons. Which, considering the dearth of good radio in the region anyway (let alone AM radio) isn't half bad.
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A friend of a friend of mine was pursuing this bizarre art project: how to make a radio that played only music from the 1930s. That part was easy. The problem was that she wanted it so she turned the dial, and could pick up different "stations", complete with fuzzy static in between.
We thought about it for a long time, and still haven't come up with a completely satisfactory answer that doesn't require heavy engineering or computer knowledge. Our artsiness failed us!
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We thought about it for a long time, and still haven't come up with a completely satisfactory answer that doesn't require heavy engineering or computer knowledge. Our artsiness failed us!
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