Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire I Miss the Old Transistor Radios.

Haha!

Yes sir.

Didn't you use crystal radio sets?? Or did you just listen to the fence wires hum from Mexican radio stations??

I had a 2 Transistor radio in the early sixties. It is all I listened to in high school. I could see the lights on the radio tower from my brothers room and there was still so much static I couldn't understand what was being said on that little radio...

I just repaired one of those two weeks ago





Made a crimp with dental pliers.


I cheated. I called someone who has been doing it for 60 years.

Had one of them fancy am fm shortwave ones with the power hand crank.


Think I sold it in a yard sale 6 or 7 yrs ago.



Just wanna particafuggingpate in the thread......

I miss my old knees.

Not me. I my my young ones.

These radios are really small, super low cost, and work pretty dang good

https://www.amazon.com/Retekess-PR15-Emergency-Transistor-Headphone/dp/B07K33JX5G

Cheaper on ebay too

Wrongo, Buckaroo; it was Joe E. Ross, not Ernest (McHale's Navy) Borgnine.

Forget your bee pollen again?

I remember my first one. Ate batteries like there was no tomorrow. I used the hell out of it though.

Or, for $7, you can get not one, but two replacements on Amazon that attach with the original screw and won't pull apart when you extend them.

Admittedly, not as much fun, and no McGiver creds.

There are still nice small radios to be had, but ones with analog tuners are scarce. Since Art Bell died, not much to listen to either.

First one i got used 9 volt batteries.

Somewhere i had heard that if you put one that was down on the charge put it in the freezer.

Tried it and it seemed to help short term

By the Grace of Almighty GOD, Wabi. Man, I had some hairy, scarey close calls. I was happy at the time to have survived them but took them for granted.

Now, at times I remember some of them and a cold chill goes down my spine thinking about how close I had been to buying the farm and realize what a great and miraculous job the angels did that HE had watch over me.

Thank you Father in Heaven for your hand of protection that has so often protected me.

Refer to the running joke of deliberate misidentifications in the "Ernest Borgnine" thread started by Slumlord, buckaroo.

I feared something like that, but plunged in anyway.

Consider me suitably chagrinned and chastened.🙁

I still listen to one of these, still gets remarkable reception and sound, though the dial is off a little.
Still get better reception than any of my CCranes.

Get an ICOM-IC-7610 transceiver for $3k, connect to a large computer display, and see what is on a lot of frequencies.

If you own 100 old radios, you won't need them any more.

Can I take that to the park and listen to a ballgame?

I remember Dad lying in his bed, his transistor radio balanced on his stomach, cussing Bob Allison for striking out.

Still have an old Hitachi am transistor radio. No antanea. Works fine. Listen to Rush almost everyday on it. Just have to move it around for good reception. It's red. Made in Japan.