First Radio?
 

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:

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.

And it was tuned by turning the nose cone. It was red and white (maybe some blue,
but I don't recall that).

Anyone else remember those things?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

This what you are referring to?

http://www.bluesky.com/warren/radios/rocketradio/

ANOTHER

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium...al/Rocket.html
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Keyboard to you


"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?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Mine was the Sony 2010
I now have a Drake R8B

Pierre
"dxAce" wrote in message
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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.

And it was tuned by turning the nose cone. It was red and white (maybe
some blue,
but I don't recall that).

Anyone else remember those things?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Keyboard In The Wilderness wrote:

This what you are referring to?

http://www.bluesky.com/warren/radios/rocketradio/

Looks similar, but I recall the one that I had being tuned by twisting the nose
cone itself, rather than a pull out, push in type of tuner.

I'm sure there must have been various variations. Brings back memories.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"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?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I wish I remember the exact model. I also wish I still had it. It was a
Zenith with one of those tops that flip up. It had, I think, two shortwave
bands, marine band and air band along with mw band and fm. My parents got
it for me as a Christmas gift when I was 12. That was 26 years ago. After
I had it for about five years it got left out in the rain and then thrown
away. At the time, there wasn't anything I though I could do to repair it.
All it probably needed was a cleaning and a new speaker.

Michael

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.

Les

"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).

DesignGuy wrote:

"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.

No, not necessarily.

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).

DesignGuy wrote:

"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?


My first radio of any kind was a two-transistor "Hinode" AM radio.
That was replaced some months later by a 6 transistor Panasonic model
T-601. I still have that radio, and it still works!

My first shortwave radio (or at least shortwave capable) was a 1937
Zenith console, replete with "Magic Eye", voice/music tone controls, all
those standard old goodies. It worked fine, except that the main power
output was two 6L6GC's and you could only use one, as it badly needed a
cap job, and with both power tubes in, it hummed like a B-17.

Tony