In article , says...
What was your first radio?

I seem to recall that mine was a rocket shaped crystal set that I had back in
the 1960's.

Anyone else remember those things?

dxAce
Michigan
USA



I had one of those, it was red with a blue nose cone. Only would get two
stations most of the time, a nearby one at 1560KHZ, and another one,
CKLW on 800KHZ. For some reason it almost always covered up WJR on
760KHZ. My first radio was a record player/AM combo deal that always
hummmed a little, and would zap the hell out of you if you touched any
of the chassis screws while you were grounded. My dad got zapped and got
me a new record player and gave me huge AM/FM portable(tubes)that really
sounded great. The new record player was as dangerous as the original
one.

BDK

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:34:12 -0400, dxAce wrote:

What was your first radio?

I seem to recall that mine was a rocket shaped crystal set that I had back in
the 1960's.

Anyone else remember those things?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

SW tube - Zenith console 1931? model AM/SW
SW solid state - Kenwood R-600

Anyone have a recording of the old Tiger baseball theme from WJR
(60's)?

Jim

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says...
On Mon 04 Oct 2004 07:56:25p, BDK
wrote in message :

In article , says...
What was your first radio?

I seem to recall that mine was a rocket shaped crystal set that I had
back in the 1960's.

Anyone else remember those things?

dxAce
Michigan
USA



I had one of those, it was red with a blue nose cone. Only would get two
stations most of the time, a nearby one at 1560KHZ, and another one,
CKLW on 800KHZ. For some reason it almost always covered up WJR on
760KHZ. My first radio was a record player/AM combo deal that always
hummmed a little, and would zap the hell out of you if you touched any
of the chassis screws while you were grounded. My dad got zapped and got
me a new record player and gave me huge AM/FM portable(tubes)that really
sounded great. The new record player was as dangerous as the original
one.

BDK



I forgot about getting zapped by record players...

On a side note, did you ever wonder why they didn't bundle 8-track players
with a book of matches so you could "wedge" the cassette up or down to get
it to play right?


-=jd=-


How could you forget about that?? I remember really getting nailed when
I was about 5. Everything tasted bad for a while after that.

I used to have a tape recording of me talking to a guy in England on the
CB back in about 1971 or so, I was 14 or 15, and my voice hadn't changed
yet, and all of a sudden, there's a ZZZZZZT, as I got nailed by my
linear (I was tweaking it) and was thrown across the room. You can hear
me slam into the closet door, and moan and groan, etc. That taught me to
be more careful around tube stuff with the top cover removed. Hand in
the pocket = good rule!

You know, I went from reel to reel to cassette without dealing with 8
tracks, I had friends that screwed with them constantly. I couldn't take
the wow and flutter they had.


BDK

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says...


-=jd=- wrote:

On Mon 04 Oct 2004 07:56:25p, BDK
wrote in message :

In article , says...
What was your first radio?

I seem to recall that mine was a rocket shaped crystal set that I had
back in the 1960's.

Anyone else remember those things?

dxAce
Michigan
USA



I had one of those, it was red with a blue nose cone. Only would get two
stations most of the time, a nearby one at 1560KHZ,

WJBK, if memory serves?

Tony

and another one,
CKLW on 800KHZ. For some reason it almost always covered up WJR on
760KHZ. My first radio was a record player/AM combo deal that always
hummmed a little, and would zap the hell out of you if you touched any
of the chassis screws while you were grounded. My dad got zapped and got
me a new record player and gave me huge AM/FM portable(tubes)that really
sounded great. The new record player was as dangerous as the original
one.

BDK


No, it was WTOD, a daytime Toledo station..

BDK

"R.F. Collins" wrote:

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:34:12 -0400, dxAce wrote:

What was your first radio?

I seem to recall that mine was a rocket shaped crystal set that I had back in
the 1960's.

Anyone else remember those things?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

SW tube - Zenith console 1931? model AM/SW
SW solid state - Kenwood R-600

Anyone have a recording of the old Tiger baseball theme from WJR
(60's)?

Jim


Can hear it playing in my head as I type, but don't have a recording of
it. Always wondered what the name of that tune was - or if it was
something actually written especially for the TV broadcasts.

Tony

= = = dxAce wrote in message
= = = ...
What was your first radio?

I seem to recall that mine was a rocket shaped crystal set
that I had back in the 1960's.

Anyone else remember those things?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

DX ACE,

My "First Radio" that I bought and paid for myself was a
Hitachi TH-812.
GoTo= http://www.transistor.org/collection.../hitachi9.html

Back then in the early 1960s I managed to receive "WBZ" in
Boston, using this Hitachi TH-812 (TRF AM/MW Portable Radio)
with an outboard 'inductively coupled' Tunable Ferrite Rod
Antenna Feed by a 65 Foot Random Wire Antenna.

NOTE: This took me Two Winter Seasons to Log this DX Catch.

OBTW: If you are interested in Old Transister Radios
Check-Out the "WWW.Transistor.Org" website:
GoTo= http://www.transistor.org/collection/collection.html

a trip down memory lane ~ RHF
..

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BDK wrote:

In article ,
says...

I had one of those, it was red with a blue nose cone. Only would get two
stations most of the time, a nearby one at 1560KHZ,

WJBK, if memory serves?

Tony

No, it was WTOD, a daytime Toledo station..

BDK


Thanks for the response, BDK. WJBK was in there somewhere - 1510?
1520? In the early sixties, it was one of the four pop stations in
Detroit, the other three being WKNR at 1310, WXYZ at 1270, and CKLW
which was across the river in Windsor at 800. WJBK was the first to
abandon pop - early 1965, I think.

Tony


I don't remember those other ones, except WXYZ, I seem to remember my
dad listening to it for something, and WJR for the Tigers games. I
really liked WTOD until it burned up, and they lost all their records
and came back as a country station. After that, I guess it was 65 or so,
I really haven't listened by choice since.

BDK

On 03 Oct 2004 18:33:52 GMT, (Llgpt) wrote:

Subject: First Radio?
From: dxAce
Date: 10/3/2004 12:34 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

What was your first radio?

I seem to recall that mine was a rocket shaped crystal set that I had back in
the 1960's.

Anyone else remember those things?

dxAce
Michigan
USA



A Hammarlund AACS variant of the Super Pro. Tuned from 300 kc to 10 mc.

My family had an old Philco upright (about four feet tall)
with a knob to change bands (BC and a few SW), The speaker was about
12 inches. There was a tuning knob with an inner fine tuning knob on a
concentric shaft. It also had a tube for tuning, whose name I forget.
It was mounted with the top forward and the lower sector of the circle
widened and narrowed as you tuned past stations. I believe it operated
by cjanging the voltage on an element to shield more or less of the
electron flow to a cone shaped element just below the top.

The first I built had a germanium slug in a holder, which also
had a catwhisker mounted nearby in its own holder. The coil was made
of enameled wire mounted on a flat rectangular block;. To get it to
work just after construction, you had to wipe the slider a number of
times across the coil wires to break through the enamel, leaving a
shiny copper arc showing.

It was the first place I came across fahnestock clips -- for
the antenna and ground.

wrote:

On 03 Oct 2004 18:33:52 GMT, (Llgpt) wrote:

Subject: First Radio?
From: dxAce
Date: 10/3/2004 12:34 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

What was your first radio?

I seem to recall that mine was a rocket shaped crystal set that I had back in
the 1960's.

Anyone else remember those things?

dxAce
Michigan
USA



A Hammarlund AACS variant of the Super Pro. Tuned from 300 kc to 10 mc.

My family had an old Philco upright (about four feet tall)
with a knob to change bands (BC and a few SW), The speaker was about
12 inches. There was a tuning knob with an inner fine tuning knob on a
concentric shaft. It also had a tube for tuning, whose name I forget.

Magic Eye?


It was mounted with the top forward and the lower sector of the circle
widened and narrowed as you tuned past stations. I believe it operated
by cjanging the voltage on an element to shield more or less of the
electron flow to a cone shaped element just below the top.

The first I built had a germanium slug in a holder, which also
had a catwhisker mounted nearby in its own holder. The coil was made
of enameled wire mounted on a flat rectangular block;. To get it to
work just after construction, you had to wipe the slider a number of
times across the coil wires to break through the enamel, leaving a
shiny copper arc showing.

It was the first place I came across fahnestock clips -- for
the antenna and ground.

dxAce wrote:

What was your first radio?

I seem to recall that mine was a rocket shaped crystal set that I had back in
the 1960's.

The more I think about it, I must have had the thing maybe in the late 50's.

Anyone else remember those things?

dxAce
Michigan
USA