Contributions of the group RADIOS

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nobody@ipernity.com (Justfolk) — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:32:20 +0000

Justfolk has posted:

I don't own as many radios as I do cameras, but I have more radios than I should. They are such lovely things that I can't turn them down.

So today when, among the goodies my sister could not take to her new and smaller home, the smaller of these two radios needed a home, I offered it mine. And, besides, I had its big sister already.

Here they are alongside each other: both working well despite being 25 or thirty years old.

RIP CKZN

nobody@ipernity.com (Justfolk) — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:17:01 +0000

Justfolk has posted:

I think it must be nearly a year since the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation turned off the transmitter at CKZN, the shortwave station
that ran for seventy-odd years in my hometown of St. John's,
Newfoundland.

When they turned it off, we were all told it was for "testing." Of
course, they were not testing anything technical; they were testing
what the audience reaction would be. If there were enough outcry,
they'd turn it on. Otherwise, they'd leave it off. That's what they
have done.

They have not yet dismantled the antennas, which are next to a much
taller single mast for the local CBC medium-wave station. This
morning, I stopped by to take this picture of the shortwave antennas.
In Leonard Cohen's words, just "keeping some kind of record."

Listening to the radio atop a small mountain, 1991

nobody@ipernity.com (Justfolk) — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 00:20:47 +0000

Justfolk has posted:

My wife and I hiked up Mount Stamford, in Terra Nova National Park, in July 1991. At the top, I pulled out my little shortwave radio to check how good the reception was up there. She grabbed my camera and took my picture.

I developed the Tri-X film myself and badly spooled it -- thus the big undeveloped patch in the sky. But, as with so many mistakes, I think it adds something to the scene.

Listening to the radio

nobody@ipernity.com (Justfolk) — Fri, 22 May 2015 23:49:01 +0000

Justfolk has posted:

Me, I mean: *I* was listening to the radio. But the cat was

interested in hanging about. This was last weekend. Just today we got

a new hardwood floor down in this room.

This was 2007-expired Konica VX200 Super in the Olympus XA.

Radio listening, forty years ago

nobody@ipernity.com (Justfolk) — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 17:34:01 +0000

Justfolk has posted:

Forty years ago, I started keeping track of the shortwave radio stations I heard by writing information on 3x5" (7.5x12.5cm) cards and filing them by country. Some of my earliest notations were in late March 1978. This card was started a couple of weeks later, in early April that year. By the mid- or late 1980s I was so deeply involved in getting my M.A., I stopped keeping good records and, for several years, I hardly listened to shortwave radio at all. When I got back at it, in the 1990s, I had a computer, but never found a way to track what I was listening to as good as the old cards.

By the way, 1978 was before I got my first digital radio (which was an ICF6700W in 1979), and I used a particular method to remember where a station was. If you look closely you'll see "luw/" written here -- that stood for "lined up with" and it was always followed by some number on one of the bands of my "World Band Radio" plus an arrow indicating where on that number the tuning indicator was. Very
precise. :)

I am tempted to start doing this again. And I'd know pretty exact digital frequencies now.

By the way, "Numbers Stations" were -- still are! -- a way that countries' spy agencies keep in contact with their agents.

Das magische Auge

nobody@ipernity.com (Percy Schramm) — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 22:40:57 +0000

Percy Schramm has posted:

Detail eines Rundfunkgerätes, das meine Eltern 1953 kauften. Das "magische Auge" - eine Abstimmanzeigeröhre - zeigt an, wie genau das Gerät auf die Sendefrequenz des zu empfangenden Senders eingestellt ist. 1953 war das Jahr, als die Firma Telefunken 50-jähriges Gründungsjubiläum feierte - daher die Zahl am oberen Rand.
Das Radio ist voll funktionstüchtig. Ich höre auch heute noch Musik.
Für die Gruppe "Macro Mondays 2.0" - Thema: 22.07. 2019 - "Tonträger oder Spieler"

"... and now for something completely different"

nobody@ipernity.com (Justfolk) — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 16:39:01 +0000

Justfolk has posted:

I've been a radio listener all my life; shortwave radio has always been one

of the things I listen to. And, since I was a kid, I have always wanted to

learn about the guts of radios, especially old ones. Now that I'm retired,

I have time to do that. So I bought a cheap, broken sixty-year-old radio,

and have started to figure it out. When I took this picture, I was

lubricating the volume control; I have lots more to do (including making

that volume control operate).

For other radio geeks, it's a four-tube Südfunk mw + two sw bands set.

Probably early 1950s.

Trödelmarkt - la brocante - la brokantaĵo

nobody@ipernity.com (Elbertinum) — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:49:32 +0000

Elbertinum has posted:

Das war in den 50er und 60er Jahren - ein Radio mit einem eingebauten Plattenspieler - stolz war man damals -
Ich habe noch ein funktionierendes Radio von 1958 - aber ohne Plattenspieler -

Panasonic R-72 S

nobody@ipernity.com (Jörn) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:07:24 +0000

Jörn has posted:

Tout-a-Loop R72S Handgelenk Radio 1969

nobody@ipernity.com (Ulrich Dinges) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:58:04 +0000

Ulrich Dinges has posted:

aus ABS Design J.. Willmin; National Panasonic Kadoma; Japan -- Kölsch Collection Essen

"Das erste künstlerisch gestaltete Gerät im Bereich entwarf Louis Kalff 1927/29. Der Hersteller Philips bezeichnete in farbigen Lautsprecher (Spitzname: Bratpfanne) als "Kunstobjekt“ , um den Kunden die Aufstellung eines so großen Gerätes im Wohnraum schmackhaft zu machen. In Großbritannien und den USA stammten die innovativsten Kunststoffgeräte seit 1933 von namhaften Industriedesigner. Die gestalterischen Ansätze waren breit gefächert: So gibt der Air King das Erscheinungsbild eines Wolkenkratzers wieder, während die für Krankenhäuser entworfene Radio Nurse von Isamu Naguchi der Form eines Kopfes bzw. einer Fechtmaske angenähert ist. In Italien entstanden plastische, dynamische Ausdrucksformen, ohne dass die Funktion der Geräte sofort erkennbar ist.

Fotoapparate wurden als viele beanspruchte Gebrauchsgegenstände schon in den zwanziger Jahren aus Phenolharz gefertigt. Hier ging es den Gestaltern vor allem die vorn Formfindung kompakter, handlicher Geräte, die sich für Massenfertigung eigneten."
Frei nach Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg.

Radio 1940-45 Modell 5104 Northern Electric

nobody@ipernity.com (Ulrich Dinges) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:58:04 +0000

Ulrich Dinges has posted:

Calgary Kanada - Kölsch Collection Essen

high tech

nobody@ipernity.com (Brigitte ✨️) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:59:06 +0000

Brigitte ✨️ has posted:

Glücklich war, der eines dieser Geräte sein eigen nennen durfte.

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nobody@ipernity.com (tommes) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:33:37 +0000

tommes has posted:

Radios (8378)

nobody@ipernity.com (Ron's Log) — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:24:13 +0000

Ron's Log has posted:

Zenith Trans-Oceanic Radio (8379)

nobody@ipernity.com (Ron's Log) — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:34:40 +0000

Ron's Log has posted:

Zenith Trans-Oceanic Radio (8382)

nobody@ipernity.com (Ron's Log) — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:34:40 +0000

Ron's Log has posted:

Online (Old School)

nobody@ipernity.com (Iljuschin) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:19:34 +0000

Iljuschin has posted:

Das Magische Auge

nobody@ipernity.com (Iljuschin) — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:11:44 +0000

Iljuschin has posted:

Telefunken-Radio

nobody@ipernity.com (Hans-Georg Kaiser) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:45:44 +0000

Hans-Georg Kaiser has posted:

Nostalgie - Philips 1002 - von 1958

nobody@ipernity.com (Elbertinum) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:19:49 +0000

Elbertinum has posted:

Im August 1958 begann ich meine Tätigkeit als Priester - ich verdiente 280DM -
Als erstes kaufte ich mir damals dieses Radio - das Design gefiel mir
besonders auch der weiche Klang und die vielen Einstellmöglichkeiten -
den Preis weiß ich nicht mehr - Es funktioniert heute noch -
Interessant sind die Zahlen - 1002 und jetzt ist 2010 - sie sind nur ein wenig vertauscht -