mongo wrote:

hi all. i guess while you are on the subject of mw. i used to pick up
wcfl in chicago on one of those little pocket radios every night when i
was growing up here (also in central ohio). what year did wcfl quit
operations? i went thru a bunch of 9volt batteries come to think of it.

I think it was in the mid-80's that WCFL ceased to exist? They are now WMVP and
broadcast sports talk.

I too went through a lot of 9 volt batteries with the little portable underneath
my pillow.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

My first new shirt pocket six transistor radio I bought at a Motorola
store here in Jackson in the 1960's.The bottom half of the sides of my
six transistor Motorola radio was round on both sides,the top half was
straight and the bottom of the radio was flat.I don't remember what
model of radio it was or how much money I paid for it,I remember it was
a red color.The first transistor radio I ever bought was from an
advertisement in a Popular Mechanics magazine back in the early
1950's.The radio was made in Kearney,Nebraska and it had an earphone,no
speaker.I think I paid about $10.00 for that little radio and it wasen't
worth a crap either,it wouldn't hardly pick up anything.It would
probally bring a pretty penny on eBay though.
cuhulin

I noticed great conditions last night. Even in my electrical noisy
apartment building I was getting Dallas and Tennesee, among other
places, on my YB-400.

dxAce wrote:

mongo wrote:


hi all. i guess while you are on the subject of mw. i used to pick up
wcfl in chicago on one of those little pocket radios every night when i
was growing up here (also in central ohio). what year did wcfl quit
operations? i went thru a bunch of 9volt batteries come to think of it.


I think it was in the mid-80's that WCFL ceased to exist? They are now WMVP and
broadcast sports talk.

I too went through a lot of 9 volt batteries with the little portable underneath
my pillow.

dxAce
Michigan
USA





I still have the Pansonic T-601 six tranistor that I got for my
birthday 40 years ago - and it still works (though not well). A radio
the size of a package of king size cigarettes, and at night I would
listen to WBZ in Boston from my bed in Detroit. That would fascinate
any kid - it certainly did me!

Tony

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heck, you had the best rock and roll station right beside you. cfl came
in around 9-9:30 at night here. i have to check and see if mom has those
radios packed up somewhere. all had the leather case. i have a letter
from wcfl they sent me about the song "american pie" bob dearborn wrote.
man i feel old. also had a zenith shortwave that had about 20 tubes that
lit my room up at night. tall as i was.

I don't care what they say.There are NO transistor radios than can match
those old tube radios.Espicially those old wooden cabinet floor model
radios,and the sound quality.Bose,y'all haven't learned **** yet!!!
cuhulin