Is anyone into vintage multiband portable radios?

[oldradioguy2010]

Great pix Omega. My neighbor had that rig, I don't remember the $109.00 price tag.
We both bought our radios by way of lawn mows and paper routes.
My rig then was a Hallicrafter tw-1000.


DW
So. Cal

 

[KD9KSO]

This SONY 7F-74DL was my first radio in 1973/74. This is an identical replacement as the original was 'lost' in an AF PCS move in 1981.

 

[Omega-TI]

Great pix Omega. My neighbor had that rig, I don't remember the $109.00 price tag.
We both bought our radios by way of lawn mows and paper routes.
My rig then was a Hallicrafter tw-1000.


DW
So. Cal

This one?

 

[Omega-TI]

This SONY 7F-74DL was my first radio in 1973/74. This is an identical replacement as the original was 'lost' in an AF PCS move in 1981.

That was tough, unfortunately I could not do as well as I wanted.

 

[oldradioguy2010]

This one?

Yea.thats here. I paid $10.00 for her in 1967 or so.
Lots of lawn mows.

 

[pjxii]

I would love to have one of those Koyo radios!

Sharp FV-1700 here. Mine is packed away at the moment so here is a Google search pic:

 

[Omega-TI]

I would love to have one of those Koyo radios!

Sharp FV-1700 here. Mine is packed away at the moment so here is a Google search pic:

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I bet back in the day that was considered quite a good looking radio.

 

[jjhendo]

I decided I want something vintage that gets shortwave and, while there is nicer dedicated shortwave radios I'm still looking at, this sucker was only $5. Missing the handle, and is the antenna supposed to come all the way out?? And is there supposed to be a backlight? Anyway, like old video games, you can play them online or whatever, but I like old hardware, so I have an NES, Atari, etc..