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The radio on Gilligan's Island
Since the mid-1960s, I have searched far and wide to find a radio that had
such good reception as the one on Gilligan's Island. That incredible DX powerhouse of a radio could regularly pick up US mainland broadcasters -- KDKA comes to mind -- from its location on a tiny island located thousands of miles from the US mainland deep in the South Pacific. Not just at night, mind you, but right in the middle of the day. Also, this radio contained some amazing self-generating batteries. They never ran low, despite the fact that there was no AC plug available for charging purposes, nor did it have any type of crank-based charging mechanism. It's possible that the batteries might have been the product of a secret military cold-war era attempt at attaining a self-sustaining, zero-point energy equilibrium. I would like to get one of these radios and hopefully some of those batteries as well. If anybody finds one on ebay, be sure to post it here. Thanks. |
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