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

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

dxAce wrote:

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


My first radio was also a rocket shaped radio when I was a youngster.
It would have been mid to late fifties. All I remember is it had a
small antenna about 2-3 inches that was pulled out at tip of nose. I
don't remember if this was for tuning or just an antenna. Listening was
by earphone only and was able to pick up local AM stations.

This what you are referring to?

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

ANOTHER

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


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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

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

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.