click of the switch...
Radio was my savior at the time. WOR, WABC, WBAP, WWL, WLW, WCFL, WBZ, KMOX and many others I listened to late at night when I should have been sleeping. Getting up at 4:30 or 5:00 to empty the coal clinkers and feeding critters came mighty quick after a late night Reds game on the west coast! I still keep a radio (along with my Pro-2054) by the bed. I jump around the dial listening to mostly talk radio these days. Listen to a bit of shortwave too. By the way, I did have my radio taken a time or two. Another thing.... when my battery would go dead it might be days or a week before I could get another. Not a good thing. About 4 years ago I bought one of the Baygen wind up/solar radios. Having something like that back then would've saved me the grief of no battery. I bought it mainly for power outages. The lights go out and I don't miss a beat. I don't know the history on this radio but I've wound (clockwork spring) mine a zillion times and it works as good as the day it arrived. Love to see an american company make an emergency radio with a clockwork spring. The ones being touted on the net and radio shack (Grundig FR200) can't be counted on when you really need it as the rechargable batteries (dynamo) eventually go bad.