Here's my little CC Skywave. Unfortunately I don't have a proper SW antenna, but it's still good enough to get the BBC, Radio Beijing, Radio Moscow, Radio Havana, and a few American radio evangelists. What more could you want? (My only digital radio are the iPhone apps like "iHeart Radio".)
First up is my 1981 Roberts RM33. This has been an absolute workhorse and has never missed a beat in 36 years. These days it resides in the kitchen on top of the fridge freezer and is pretty much switched on all day. A damned good radio / made in England and built to last / easy to service.
Dale...... you mentioned short wave. Here is my 1982 Selena B215 Russian radio, it has 5 short wave bands plus MW / LW and FM. The selector is a turret type and this radio is seriously over engineered / typical OTT Robust Russian tank like build quality. I have recapped this set as the originals went high ESR a few years ago..... the Russian capacitors in the Selena are not a patch on the English made ones in my Hacker radios which just goes to show that UK made capacitors were some of the best in the world.... I have a 1962 Hacker Mini Herald RP17 (54 years old) that sounds like new and still has all the original caps.
Anyhoo.... back to the Selena B215...... it's major selling point was its AMAZING AM performance, this thing can pull in Radio 4 on long wave and you would swear the broadcaster was in your living room..... it really is stunning and with a tone to die for...... no other radio I have can grab AM the way this beauty does. The Hackers crap all over it with regard to FM but come nowhere close to it in the AM dept. SW channels will pick up all the passing ships.... I sometimes spend an hour or two scanning the airwaves.
Pretty much mint condition / original box / I absolutely love it..... built in Russia from tanks!
My oldest Hacker is a little Mini Herald RP17 from 1962. Hacker had a very short run with these (only one year 1962 - 1963) so this one of my prized Hackers. 100% original / never had a part replaced / works like new. Will we be saying that about an "ipod" 54 years into the future? I think not! I don't fire her up that often but whenever I do it will be something 1960's related being broadcast on the radio...... nice to listen to period music on a period transducer, it really gives you a sense of what it was like back then before "lossless" and all that crap. It's all they had and was perfectly good back then..... in fact, the Mini Herald, was the 60's idea of "music on the go"...... if you had a Mini car and a Mini herald you were the man about town!
Another Hacker Mini Herald RP17 but this time from 1963........ all of the same ^as above^ / in perfect working order but one year younger / only 53 years old. EVERY single part made in the UK and every single part made to last a lifetime....... no wonder the British manufacturing industry collapsed
Dale...... you mentioned short wave. Here is my 1982 Selena B215 Russian radio, it has 5 short wave bands plus MW / LW and FM. The selector is a turret type and this radio is seriously over engineered / typical OTT Robust Russian tank like build quality. I have recapped this set as the originals went high ESR a few years ago..... the Russian capacitors in the Selena are not a patch on the English made ones in my Hacker radios which just goes to show that UK made capacitors were some of the best in the world.... I have a 1962 Hacker Mini Herald RP17 (54 years old) that sounds like new and still has all the original caps.
Anyhoo.... back to the Selena B215...... it's major selling point was its AMAZING AM performance, this thing can pull in Radio 4 on long wave and you would swear the broadcaster was in your living room..... it really is stunning and with a tone to die for...... no other radio I have can grab AM the way this beauty does. The Hackers crap all over it with regard to FM but come nowhere close to it in the AM dept. SW channels will pick up all the passing ships.... I sometimes spend an hour or two scanning the airwaves.
Pretty much mint condition / original box / I absolutely love it..... built in Russia from tanks!
Oh my.... this is what I lusted after as a boy in the workhouse, making 10 cents U.S. per hour. I love analog tuning, and that window with the flywheel(?) is ultra cool. So is this thing solid state? The radios I grew up with were valve powered, unless I were using the crystal set I got in 1958.
One of my favourites, and a radio that I listen to at Christmas, is the Kolster Brandes FB10 "toaster" radio. Kolster Brandes radios were fitted into luxury cabins in the Queen Mary cruise ship back in the 1930's, they became pretty well known at the time and their slogan was "Triumphs of British Engineering" with an inference to their involvement / connection to the Queen Mary ship:
My 1955 FB10 toaster radio is pretty much mint condition and it's always a buzz firing it up on Christmas day....... just so "out there" listening to some random station on LW / MW when all the perfect people are listening to digital wonders, surrounded by big families and LOTS of friends
My oldest Hacker is a little Mini Herald RP17 from 1962. Hacker had a very short run with these (only one year 1962 - 1963) so this one of my prized Hackers. 100% original / never had a part replaced / works like new. Will we be saying that about an "ipod" 54 years into the future? I think not! I don't fire her up that often but whenever I do it will be something 1960's related being broadcast on the radio...... nice to listen to period music on a period transducer, it really gives you a sense of what it was like back then before "lossless" and all that crap. It's all they had and was perfectly good back then..... in fact, the Mini Herald, was the 60's idea of "music on the go"...... if you had a Mini car and a Mini herald you were the man about town!
Nice to have. Before I went to Germany, where we had Grundigs and DIN jacks, I would open the old radios made in the U.S. and tap into the speaker leads. I had no idea what I was doing, but by experimentation, I usually was able to produce a clear enough tone for recording. I recorded the moon landing in July 1969 as it happened, but now I'm to understand that it was done in a studio somewhere.
Hacker Hunter RP38A / made in UK / Circa 1971. My "go to" garden radio.... whenever it's sunny out there the RP38A does garden duty...... My second favourite Hacker radio of all time..... an absolutely gorgeous tone / wall rattling bass / well worth the PP9 battery entry fee / DAB? No way Jose, Hacker will eat you alive! A gorgeous radio, so gorgeous I could eat it, f**kin' quality.... quality, quality, quality and then MORE quality!!! It's THAT good. Made in England, Designed in England, all parts made in England..... still working like new 46 years after being built.
Bush DAC 90..... a DAC in the 1950's? No! A 67 year old valve radio that I rescued out of a skip...... work in progress...... cleaned the bakolite up with Brasso and it's currently more of a "show no go" work in progress....... piece of cake to work on and so sad to think of the past and flip forward to "now" where a product is designed to last a year or two TOPS....... it really is sad and so much for going "green". Too many f**kin' idiots at the helm these days...... if you want "green" then build a product to last centuries, not 365 days.
Here's my little CC Skywave. Unfortunately I don't have a proper SW antenna, but it's still good enough to get the BBC, Radio Beijing, Radio Moscow, Radio Havana, and a few American radio evangelists. What more could you want? (My only digital radio are the iPhone apps like "iHeart Radio".)
I like the look of that Dale..... one thing I don't have is a pocket size radio and I think I possibly need one? (LIKE A HOLE IN THE HEAD!!!!!! / NOTE TO SELF / DO NOT BUY ANOTHER RADIO!) Decent price too... clearly made in China...... I like the size of it...... $89.99, what's the best price stateside?
The best Hacker radio EVER IMHO...... perfect in every way....... DAB? go and eat dust!!!!! Hacker RP25 is the king.......... sublime! Jeremy Vine PA in your living room, it's that good.
A random Roberts (Made in England) I picked up for £1 at a charity shop........ not at all bad / not a hacker / great power cut emergency / standby radio.
Work in progress.... an UBER rare London made Raymond radio F55....... Possibly not worth spending time on it, I'll probably end up donating it to the Orkney Radio Museum next time I'm over on the ferry:
All of these that have the place names in the U.K., or Europe, are not only great treasures for that, but they serve as a reminder and warning of how we've allowed our governments to sell off the people's airwaves to big commercial conglomerates who broadcast Lady GaGa night and day.
If we were ever to make the English-speaking world great again, one of the first things to do would be to restore local control and ownership of the radio stations. When I was a kid with my first AM radio (530 to 1690 khz), I could reach Dallas Texas, Kansas City Missouri, New Orleans Louisiana, Chicago, New York, Atlanta Georgia, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Waterloo Iowa, Windsor Ontario, Wheeling West Virginia, Cincinnati Ohio, Nashville Tennessee, and 50 other places, from Akron Ohio. In some of those cities like New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit etc., I could dial up half a dozen different stations.
The point is not that I merely collected stations, but that each station had local programming, in their local dialects, and it gave me a rich education in culture. I imagine a person in the U.K. would have experienced a similar thing. Today, probably half of the kiddies in London (and 90 percent of the immigrants) have no idea where Glasgow or Cardiff are, let alone anything about culture outside of the shopping malls. Today's disposable culture is a great danger to our liberties, because there is nothing left for people to identify with, to defend against foreign cultures that offer us nothing but grief.
No photo to attach, but I pulled the trigger on a Tivoli Audio Model One off fleabay last year for 20 quid to get back into radio thinking they'd be a stack of FM student radio stations out there. Yet to find them...
Hissy am, but fm is lovely and locks on. Doesn't get a huge amount of channels not being digital of course..but pleasant to flick on Radio 3 and the spot of transformer hum only lifts the bass
Good looking, mine's in green rather than blue. Same wood.
No photo to attach, but I pulled the trigger on a Tivoli Audio Model One off fleabay last year for 20 quid to get back into radio thinking they'd be a stack of FM student radio stations out there. Yet to find them...
Hissy am, but fm is lovely and locks on. Doesn't get a huge amount of channels not being digital of course..but pleasant to flick on Radio 3 and the spot of transformer hum only lifts the bass
Good looking, mine's in green rather than blue. Same wood.
All of these that have the place names in the U.K., or Europe, are not only great treasures for that, but they serve as a reminder and warning of how we've allowed our governments to sell off the people's airwaves to big commercial conglomerates who broadcast Lady GaGa night and day.
If we were ever to make the English-speaking world great again, one of the first things to do would be to restore local control and ownership of the radio stations. When I was a kid with my first AM radio (530 to 1690 khz), I could reach Dallas Texas, Kansas City Missouri, New Orleans Louisiana, Chicago, New York, Atlanta Georgia, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Waterloo Iowa, Windsor Ontario, Wheeling West Virginia, Cincinnati Ohio, Nashville Tennessee, and 50 other places, from Akron Ohio. In some of those cities like New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit etc., I could dial up half a dozen different stations.
The point is not that I merely collected stations, but that each station had local programming, in their local dialects, and it gave me a rich education in culture. I imagine a person in the U.K. would have experienced a similar thing. Today, probably half of the kiddies in London (and 90 percent of the immigrants) have no idea where Glasgow or Cardiff are, let alone anything about culture outside of the shopping malls. Today's disposable culture is a great danger to our liberties, because there is nothing left for people to identify with, to defend against foreign cultures that offer us nothing but grief.
Yup! Nail on the head mate. We are now fed a "global diet" where everybody dresses the same (what kind of fashion is that??!!) / eats the same shit / listens to the same shit/ believes the shit and lives life like a Milking cow waiting for its next exciting milk extraction.
No photo to attach, but I pulled the trigger on a Tivoli Audio Model One off fleabay last year for 20 quid to get back into radio thinking they'd be a stack of FM student radio stations out there. Yet to find them...
Hissy am, but fm is lovely and locks on. Doesn't get a huge amount of channels not being digital of course..but pleasant to flick on Radio 3 and the spot of transformer hum only lifts the bass
Good looking, mine's in green rather than blue. Same wood.
Nice! pretty much a modern day reworking of the classic KLH 1965 (year) Model Twenty One (21) designed by Henry Kloss almost 60 years ago.
The original 1965 design:
The Tivoli Model one:
Nice man. There's a fix I've seen for the transformer hum, but I can't get the back off. I basically use it for 2 classical stations and switch back-forth. If I'm getting hammered and playing Bowie I plug the cd in but it's a bit gruesome, too much voltage maybe. The headphone out is very quiet and smooth from straight radio if bass shy. A question-do London Uni stations exist? They did in NZ..anyhoo
Nice! pretty much a modern day reworking of the classic KLH 1965 (year) Model Twenty One (21) designed by Henry Kloss almost 60 years ago.
The original 1965 design:
The Tivoli Model one:
Nice man. There's a fix I've seen for the transformer hum, but I can't get the back off. I basically use it for 2 classical stations and switch back-forth. If I'm getting hammered and playing Bowie I plug the cd in but it's a bit gruesome, too much voltage maybe. The headphone out is very quiet and smooth from straight radio if bass shy. A question-do London Uni stations exist? They did in NZ..anyhoo
Pretty typical of today's "gear"..... the manufacturers hope you throw it in the bin and buy a new "latest generation" version of the glued crap they are hiding in their boxes.
I dunno......... be a pioneer and rip the back off it..... let's see what's hidden inside.
If YOU can't open it up then I doubt the manufacturer would be bothered to...... they would landfill it and send you out another one.
Nice man. There's a fix I've seen for the transformer hum, but I can't get the back off. I basically use it for 2 classical stations and switch back-forth. If I'm getting hammered and playing Bowie I plug the cd in but it's a bit gruesome, too much voltage maybe. The headphone out is very quiet and smooth from straight radio if bass shy. A question-do London Uni stations exist? They did in NZ..anyhoo
Pretty typical of today's "gear"..... the manufacturers hope you throw it in the bin and buy a new "latest generation" version of the glued crap they are hiding in their boxes.
I dunno......... be a pioneer and rip the back off it..... let's see what's hidden inside.
If YOU can't open it up then I doubt the manufacturer would be bothered to...... they would landfill it and send you out another one.
It's called "being green"
Many campuses in the U.S. have a policy of allowing a handful of students to present their own "indie" programs as part of a block of time given to that purpose. So in Chattanooga Tenn. where I lived, that block of time was Saturday night from 11 pm to Sunday morning at 7 am. The 8 hours was split into 8 segments with one person or team per segment. But I've seen some of these around Cleveland that allow this in the daytime, on weekends especially.
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