The “Radio Shack” was the official term for the room onboard ships where radio operators communicated with others ships and the various ports that they operated out of. RadioShack was started in Boston by two brothers in 1921 with the goal of supporting the growing number of people who were operating ham radios, and radio officers on ships. RadioShack’s infamous house brand that was sold next to the pulsating disco balls, wire strippers, and TV antenna. One brand that never crossed my radar was Realistic. Karinas wrote a comment on Raspberry pi 4 Android Gaming performance.When I got started a few years ago and began my vintage audio journey, I did a lot of reading and research about Marantz, Pioneer, Harmon Kardon, Sansui, Nakamichi, and high-end brands like McIntosh and Revox.nicolas_tranchant has added jonathojacobsen553 as a contributor to Unusual Bottom-Up 3D printer.Chris Fala liked I made this Cool Digital Trainer Kit.Tiberiu has updated details to Q17 - a QUAD405 audiophile approach.pandabrand liked CAMERA SLIDER WITH OBJECT TRACKING.chrisr1256 liked Unusual Bottom-Up 3D printer.Dusan Petrovic has added Timezone-Aware NTP Clock to Clocks, clocks, and more clocks.Jan Praegert on Make Anything Clockwork With This Ridiculous Stick-On Device.Dude on Weird Electric Jet Skis Are Hitting The Waves.rasz_pl on PCIe For Hackers: Extracting The Most.Brian Vargo on Linux Fu: Gum Up Your Script.Brian on History Of The SPARC CPU Architecture.elwing on Generating Instead Of Storing Meshes.cliff claven on Make Anything Clockwork With This Ridiculous Stick-On Device.smellsofbikes on Stripped Clock Wheel Gets A New Set Of Teeth, The Hard Way.Ben on It’s Difficult To Read An Audiophile Guide As An Analogue Engineer.Maave on Generating Instead Of Storing Meshes.Hackaday Podcast 211: Pocket Sundial, Origami Llama, PCB Spacemouse 2 Comments I wish I could put on a live show mixing those sounds and voices then live from a few radios, but now I’d have to do it in church.Ĭheck David Byrne-My life in the bush of ghosts, he uses both.There are others, Holger Czukay of Can did the best shortwave mix ever Persian Love. Play with the BFO and modulate the sounds, almost like having a synth which came later. that peppered the gaps between the international bands. I used to surf the globe with these while quite young and not only hear music from allover but I dug industrial and noise-electronica with all those ancient forms of data Telex etc. Proust reference, so went Garrison Keillor on PHC. The hot dusty smell of tubes! À la recherche du temps perdu, memory of my time at Purdue. I remember that local store as a kid growing into a hobby and then getting parts there. Both were consumer electronics then with the “white label” brands and parts via catalog sales, like Newark parts only which not only is still around but swallowed up MCM.īack then Japanese goods like these had the image that Chinese goods have now. (sp) Checking I see that Allied has many stores in many states but is parts only now. You bet your sweet bippy that our local independent Lafayette Radio Supply got lots of calls back then from people thinking they were connected with the Lafayette that is in the link above. Officially by the post office I live Laff,In. Posted in Radio Hacks, Repair Hacks, Teardown Tagged radio, shortwave Post navigation If you want to learn more about restoring old radios, we have just what you need to get started. This radio reminded us of the Radio Shack DX-160, although that one was solid state. did manage to demonstrate picking up some AM broadcast stations, though. There isn’t much to hear on the shortwave bands anymore, especially during the day. Otherwise, the radio still seemed serviceable after all these years. He also had to replace the filter caps, another common failure on these old radios. As is often the case with radios this old, it appears this one had a repair done to its power switch and it didn’t mean approval so he redid the repair. gives us a look at the inside and the always interesting hand wiring under the covers. With seven tubes, radios like this would soon be replaced by transistorized versions. The radio looks very similar to an Eico of the same era - around the 1960s. He also found it was very similar to a Layfayette receiver, also made in Japan, confirming our suspicions. found a nice example of this Canadian radio and takes it apart for our viewing pleasure. We’ll admit we haven’t heard of the AGS-38, it reminds us of the shortwave receivers of our youth, and it looks like many that were made “white label” by more established (and often Japanese) companies.
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