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

In article , 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

Here it is:
http://www.peeblesoriginals.com/vint...stal-radio.jpg

My Dad set it up for me. It had a sloping wire down the back of the
house from the second floor bedroom. A wire went to the cold water pipe
for ground from the upstairs bathroom. My radio was a light blue color.
The one in the picture looks to be a very dark blue or black but
otherwise looks just like it.

That slider was a metal marble that slid along the side of a coil making
it a variable tap.

I could pick up several local stations with it.

This radio was a marvel to me from the standpoint that it did not need
any batteries or need to be plugged in the wall outlet. It was powered
by the energy it picked up from the air. It was a magical self powered
thing.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

"dxAce" wrote in message
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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?

First radio that I bought was ye olde Realistic DX-440 (aka
the Sangean 803a). However, for about 6 months before
that purchase, I'd been listening to a Hallicrafters S-20R
Sky Champion that was parked in the lab that I worked at
as an undergrad. The real fun came when I stumbled on
a Hammarlund HQ-180A in another lab room, but I couldn't
talk the professor into giving that one up...

--Mike L.

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

Hallicrafters S-120. It wasn't very robust or very good and my grandfather
took it back after a month and got me a used S-40B. Now that was a a radio!

--
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

dxAce asked:


What was your first radio?


An "all-American 5" 5-tube AM table radio which got me hooked on DX when I
heard distant AM stations on it. It had a black plastic cabinet. The back of
the radio was a piece of cardboard with an air-core loop on the inside.

First SW radio was a Hallicrafters S-120.

"DesignGuy" wrote in message news:nu%7d.104922$wV.18788@attbi_s54...
"dxAce" wrote in message
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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?

I'm assuming you mean shortwave radio. My first was a Sears ComTrek IX - it
actually belonged to my dad but I sort of "took it over" once I discovered
the SW bands on it. It had a flip down door where a little logbook could be
kept, and among the various AM and VHF logs was a sole entry for Radio RSA
South Africa. That was enough to pique my interest at 10 yrs of age.

The first "real" SW radio of my own was the Realistic DX-160 I received for
Christmas one year (c. 1978 or so).



My first radio was like the crystal radios list on the site below.
Click he http://www.xtalman.com/

Postal97321

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

Hitachi Transistor 6 Model TH-660.

Still have it; still works.

Harlan

"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

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

Been a while...My first was a 6 transister AM job from the
Spiegalsp?? catalog. Got that for my 8th birthday, so that would
have been Oct 64. I still remember it had a round silver covered
speaker, and was turquoise. My brother got one that was white, so I
guess they came in various designer color schemes.
I lived in Wichita KS at that time, and I was DX'ing all kinds of
stuff that fall and winter. I'd listen to lots of dx real early in the
morning.
The first shortwave radio I bought was a philco portable that I bought
from a Firestone store. http://web.wt.net/~nm5k/r6.jpg
Covered AM-FM, and 4-12 mc if I remember right. The white clock radio
behind it was used as a BFO for CW/SSB. The clock radio on the left
was used as normal. Mainly a clock, but the radio worked. The
contraption in front of the philco is my first 40m CW transmitter I
built. Ran off line voltage, and used a single 6v6. Yes, it worked. :/
I later rebuilt it again in 1977 using a transformer for more B+. Was
my first transmitter as a novice. That picture was taken probably in
early 71. I know I was in the 8th grade. That "shack" was actually my
closet in my bedroom. It wasn't a whole lot bigger than what you
see...Room for my armchair behind the table, and that was about it. I
had a radio shack reel to reel recorder out of the picture, behind the
clipboard to the left. MK

What was your first radio?

First one entirely of my own was a little Motorola transistor pocket model,
with a Green Bay Packers helmet on it, a Christmas gift in (probably) 1968.
First one I used for MW DX was a late '50s Sylvania all-tube table radio, it
had a pinkish plastic case, speaker cloth with gold threads mixed in, and
separate AM and FM controls on either side of the front panel. My mother
threw it away while I was in college, and I really wish I had that radio
today.