On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:41:53 -0700, running dogg wrote:

I recieved something that I ordered over the net from C. Crane, and was
flipping through the catalog they included when I noticed, on page 25, a
Freeplay Lifeline radio. It says that this radio is made for
humanitarian projects in the third world and is sold to Americans
exclusively by C. Crane. It appears to be a four band radio, with FM,
AM, and two SW bands covering 3.5-10 and 10-18 Mhz. The ad has a picture
of an African boy working in a field while listening to this radio, but
that radio appears to be different-it has a red and white dial instead
of a blue and white dial. I was wondering if anybody owns a Freeplay
Lifeline and can comment on it. I assume that the SW bands are good only
for regional reception, so in the US you'd only hear bible thumpers. At
$99.95 it's quite expensive, I don't see how they can afford to give
them away to people in Africa. Page 78 of the catalog shows a Rwandan
girl with a Lifeline, and it IS different-the dial is marked with the
Voice of America logo.


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In the past, IBB/VoA has given away receivers so our targets can hear
our signals. We're not the only ones to do this. In the early days
of the FEBC in the Philippines, they had an electronic shop wherein
they manufactured nice wood-grain AM receivers locked onto their AM
frequency. God loves a captured audience.... LOL

Al in CNMI

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Tebojockey wrote:

On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:41:53 -0700, running dogg wrote:

I recieved something that I ordered over the net from C. Crane, and was
flipping through the catalog they included when I noticed, on page 25, a
Freeplay Lifeline radio. It says that this radio is made for
humanitarian projects in the third world and is sold to Americans
exclusively by C. Crane. It appears to be a four band radio, with FM,
AM, and two SW bands covering 3.5-10 and 10-18 Mhz. The ad has a picture
of an African boy working in a field while listening to this radio, but
that radio appears to be different-it has a red and white dial instead
of a blue and white dial. I was wondering if anybody owns a Freeplay
Lifeline and can comment on it. I assume that the SW bands are good only
for regional reception, so in the US you'd only hear bible thumpers. At
$99.95 it's quite expensive, I don't see how they can afford to give
them away to people in Africa. Page 78 of the catalog shows a Rwandan
girl with a Lifeline, and it IS different-the dial is marked with the
Voice of America logo.


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In the past, IBB/VoA has given away receivers so our targets can hear
our signals. We're not the only ones to do this. In the early days
of the FEBC in the Philippines, they had an electronic shop wherein
they manufactured nice wood-grain AM receivers locked onto their AM
frequency. God loves a captured audience.... LOL

I remember seeing an article somewhere about receivers Philips made for
an educational radio station in Colombia. The radios had five channels,
each set to an AM or SW frequency of the station, and that's all they
could get, although you could tune a little to either side by turning a
screw inside the radio. Philips saved a few of these radios in their
warehouse in the Netherlands, and when they sold off the contents of the
warehouse a while back a radio collector from America got one of these
Colombian radios and wrote an article on it. It's unknown if any survive
in Colombia, but it's unlikely considering they were made 40 years ago.


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