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Been a radio guy forever. In the DC area, we had some great personalities on: Hardin & Weaver, Willard Scott and his blind partner (The Joy Boys), etc. WMAL is still the talk radio champ here with Rush, Chris Plante, And Mark Levin.
Got a Super Radio, but for general use, I have a Sangean Rechargeable, Solar, and crank model. Small, water resistant, and has a better sound quality for voice, I think than the GE. Been dropped a couple times, but the rubberized ends saved it. About $50 on Amazon. Also have a Grundig repro for the bedroom. Nice cabinetry, but the tuner is only mediocre IMHO. Still a nice piece.
Wish Art Bell was still on. how about that toe jam monster that lived under the bed?
I work harder than a ugly stripper....
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Campfire Ranger
Joined: Mar 2006
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I have a slim Panasonic transistor pocket radio. I gifted it to my 85 year old father in law. He uses it to listen to his baseball games. He walks around with that radio in his pocket all the time.
"I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country."
Robert E. Lee
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Not much in the same league but of the same age. I grew up going over to my great uncles house and listening to his zenith trans-oceanic radio with an antenna taller than me. He passed away 25 years ago but left me that old relic. It’s still a gas to fire it up and see what’s out there.
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Campfire Ranger
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thinking back, as a kid about 1964 or so, maybe a year or two sooner, had a portable radio that the clip was connected to a metal object, like a power line guy wire, or water line. had a tuner, and an ear bud. tiny little radio. could pick up lot's of local stations by twisting the little extended knob. sometimes there was lot's of background buzz, other times hardly any. am of course.
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