BucksGuyUSA
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Oh, you just triggered a WAVE of memories for me!
My parents had what I think was a Telefunken 776 radio - it was big, and had push-buttons to switch bands:
I was maybe 2 years old when I figured out how to work it, and since we lived in a major city in the 1960's, the AM band was alive with things to hear, and I distinctly remember the strange sounds of SW radio, which only came through a little bit because we didn't have an good antenna. But my parents tell me that I was perfectly competent using that radio before I was 3 years old.
A little later in my life, around when I was 5 or 6, my grandparents had a Lloyd radio that looked something like this one:
which I played with CONSTANTLY.
The one they had was not the same as the one in the picture, it had more bands and it had a rotating antenna bar on top, which I eventually figured out could tell me the direction to a particular radio transmitter. That radio also had "LW" (longwave) as an option, and back then, without the internet and as the only person in my family with radio interest, I didn't realize that I'd need a nice longwire antenna, but there was an antenna jack on the side of the radio, so one day, I stuck a long bit of wire in there - and the world changed. I slowly tuned across the LW band and heard mysterious sounds around 100khz - I eventually learned that it was LORAN-C .
Somewhere between when I was 5 and 10, as I was learning to read and learning math, I found a few books about radio in the library, RadioShack was a thing and I got various books and kits there, and started building my own crystal radios and so on, and my family was great about getting me radio-related gifts.
In the mid 1980's I had a Grundig Sattelit that was magical
and soon after that, I had the Sony ICF-1 radio when I lived in a major American City, and I brought that thing with me on so many trips all around the world:
Today, "radios" aren't as important in my life; I have a Tivoli Model 1 that hardly gets used at all, I like the way it looks.
The radios I use most are ugly little RTL-SDR devices, although I just bought a vintage radio shack pro-something scanner on eBay because it's better for local Airband.
thanks for the topic, it's a good one.
My parents had what I think was a Telefunken 776 radio - it was big, and had push-buttons to switch bands:
I was maybe 2 years old when I figured out how to work it, and since we lived in a major city in the 1960's, the AM band was alive with things to hear, and I distinctly remember the strange sounds of SW radio, which only came through a little bit because we didn't have an good antenna. But my parents tell me that I was perfectly competent using that radio before I was 3 years old.
A little later in my life, around when I was 5 or 6, my grandparents had a Lloyd radio that looked something like this one:
which I played with CONSTANTLY.
The one they had was not the same as the one in the picture, it had more bands and it had a rotating antenna bar on top, which I eventually figured out could tell me the direction to a particular radio transmitter. That radio also had "LW" (longwave) as an option, and back then, without the internet and as the only person in my family with radio interest, I didn't realize that I'd need a nice longwire antenna, but there was an antenna jack on the side of the radio, so one day, I stuck a long bit of wire in there - and the world changed. I slowly tuned across the LW band and heard mysterious sounds around 100khz - I eventually learned that it was LORAN-C .
Somewhere between when I was 5 and 10, as I was learning to read and learning math, I found a few books about radio in the library, RadioShack was a thing and I got various books and kits there, and started building my own crystal radios and so on, and my family was great about getting me radio-related gifts.
In the mid 1980's I had a Grundig Sattelit that was magical
and soon after that, I had the Sony ICF-1 radio when I lived in a major American City, and I brought that thing with me on so many trips all around the world:
Today, "radios" aren't as important in my life; I have a Tivoli Model 1 that hardly gets used at all, I like the way it looks.
The radios I use most are ugly little RTL-SDR devices, although I just bought a vintage radio shack pro-something scanner on eBay because it's better for local Airband.
thanks for the topic, it's a good one.
