[HN Gopher] Phil's Old Radios
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Phil's Old Radios
Author : js2
Score : 77 points
Date : 2021-05-27 14:54 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (antiqueradio.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (antiqueradio.org)
| Animats wrote:
| Early Television Museum:
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| https://youtu.be/4YGdoib7S9k
| js2 wrote:
| Someone on /r/BudgetAudiophile/ posted that they'd picked up a
| Tivoli Audio Model One, and in the comments, someone mentioned
| the "KLH 21". I'd never heard of that, so I searched for it on
| DDG and a page on this site was the first result:
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| https://antiqueradio.org/KLHModelTwentyOne21FMRadio.htm
|
| Somewhat related: A few weeks back, I watched _The Bitter Tears
| of Petra von Kant_. The movie features a pretty unique looking
| turntable in several scenes. It took me a little while to track
| down that it 's a Braun Audio 310[1][2]. I think I found it by
| doing an image search for "turntable record player 1970 Germany"
| or some such and then just started scrolling through image after
| image of record player. It turns out its a turntable and radio
| combination.
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| [1] https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/braun_audio_310.html
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| [2] https://braunaudio.de/en/braun-audio-310-dieter-rams-
| design-...
| squarefoot wrote:
| For those who enjoy radio construction and repair, whether
| vintage or modern, from crystal sets to SDR through regenerative
| and superhets, take a look at The Radioboard forums.
| http://theradioboard.com/rb/
| the-dude wrote:
| This is what the net was supposed to be.
| BitwiseFool wrote:
| Whenever I see simple sites likes this I'm filled with
| nostalgia. And, joy that someone puts love and effort into
| making their passion project available to the world.
| krallja wrote:
| Agreed. Tim Berners-Lee bless the collectors and the
| archivists.
| Jeema101 wrote:
| About 4 years ago I picked up an old tube radio I found at an
| antique mall that caught my eye. The radio was a 1947 AM/FM set.
| Before finding it, I had no idea that FM radio was even around in
| 1947, but it was. It was a relatively new technology at the time,
| so this would have probably been a high-end set when it was
| introduced.
|
| Buying that radio led me down the path of learning how to restore
| old tube radios, and I eventually got it all fixed up and working
| - it's currently sitting on a bookshelf behind me.
|
| It's very strange to hear modern music coming through it what
| with it's old art-deco styling. Sometimes I think about who the
| original owner must have been and what they probably listened to
| on it. Old jazz and rock and roll songs maybe? News updates on
| the Korean War? Who knows. But it's interesting to think about...
| handrous wrote:
| 1947? Probably a lot of radio dramas.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_drama#1930-1960s:_Widesp...
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| My dad, who grew up in the 40s and 50s, has mentioned before
| that they treated the radio just like the "family TV" of the
| 60s, 70s, and 80s.
| wahern wrote:
| NPR affiliate WAMU airs The Big Broadcast every Sunday
| evening, with 4 hours of programming from the golden age of
| radio: https://wamu.org/show/the-big-broadcast/ I've always
| loved listening while cooking dinner. Though, living on the
| west coast I only get to listen to the tail end of the show.
| NowhereMan wrote:
| If you enjoy this website, you will probably enjoy Jeri
| Ellsworth's visit to the Museum of Radio and Technology
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyZ87wNotBg
| ktpsns wrote:
| Vintage radios have a weird time these days because the people
| (typically: men) who used to have experienced them as young
| child's are dying. As a consequence, prices are dropping and
| massive amounts of radios are trashed. Why? Because their
| collections are resolved by their heirs.
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| For instance, rare radios where about 2000EUR in the 1980s and
| are around 200EUR nowadays.
| Daub wrote:
| Anyone interested in this kind of thing should read Early
| Wireless by A R Constable. He was also the founding member of the
| British Vintage wireless Society.
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| https://www.bvws.org.uk/
| topspin wrote:
| Paul Carlson of Mr. Carlson's Lab (Youtube and Patreon) is a
| consummate expert at this sort of restoration, preservation and
| analysis of old designs if you want to watch it happen.
| jes wrote:
| I second this whole-heartedly. I grew up in the hollow-state
| era when solid-state discrete devices were relatively new.
| Mr. Carlson's Lab is a great show. Paul really knows his
| stuff.
| markrages wrote:
| I wish he would do more troubleshooting. He replaces all
| the tubes, all the caps, all the resistors, and now the
| radio magically works!
| topspin wrote:
| You exaggerate. He replaces bad tubes and keeps the rest.
| He rarely replaces resistors; old carbon resistors are
| very durable and some resistors should not be replaced
| without good reason, such as those in instruments. He
| aggressively replaces paper caps and lectures about
| exactly why these have to go rather than indulging
| foolish nostalgia (they turn into resistors which
| overloads grids which melts irreplaceable transformers
| while starting a house fire.) Mica caps and most ceramics
| are tested and left alone. And he doesn't leave the
| function of the device to "magic." The design and
| operation of the circuit is analyzed; the first thing you
| see after an intro usually a circuit schematic.
|
| It is astonishing how people perceive things.
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