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