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"I don't collect radios anymore......nothing to listen to! "



Seriously.

I got interested in Antique Radios right around 1978-1980, when the Big-Band Revival was getting under way, and there were several stations in the Baltimore - Washington market that played Big-Band...


After that craze faded, there was still "The Music of Your Life" on AM through the 1990's... then, sadly, the AM went all "talk", ESPN, or foreign language.


I am still interested in old radios, but I have one of Antique Electronic Supply Co's kits to build a 1930's Emerson "wireless phonograph transmitter", a low-powered AM transmitter, designed to broadcast music from your electric phonograph to any radio in the house.

I figure that when ( or if) I get it built and going, I can supply it either from the CD player, or from my FM tuner and Public Radio Classical, and at least hear something palatable on my vintage radios...

FloridaClay wrote:

Norfolkguy wrote:I would be thrilled to have that radio, no questions asked. If it had been plugged in, in its before state, it would have set the house on fire. Beautiful work! I don't collect radios anymore......nothing to listen to!

AM is indeed a wasteland now. I solved that dilemma by getting something called a "Talking House," a very low power AM transmitter, downloading some old-time radio shows to my iPod, and hooking them together. Now get 30s and 40s big band or other shows on any AM set in the house whenever I want.

Clay

Better yet - Sirius XM through the Talking House...

FloridaClay wrote:

Norfolkguy wrote:I would be thrilled to have that radio, no questions asked. If it had been plugged in, in its before state, it would have set the house on fire. Beautiful work! I don't collect radios anymore......nothing to listen to!

AM is indeed a wasteland now. I solved that dilemma by getting something called a "Talking House," a very low power AM transmitter, downloading some old-time radio shows to my iPod, and hooking them together. Now get 30s and 40s big band or other shows on any AM set in the house whenever I want.

Clay

That is an excellent idea! I miss the old radio shows and dance music that were on public radio when I was younger. I did find a few Lp's of the old shows from the 30's, commercials included....I wonder if Duz does everything better?