LOL ! Great video... When the lady said she listened to Jean Shepherd every night, SI DID I The video brought back a lot of memories. I remember the transition from tubes to transistors. When I was in the Navy a lot of the short wave communications gear was still tube.
09:27 Just sitting in the background (left side, wood radio with the curved dial) is my favorite early (1946) Zenith AM FM radios, the 8H034, with the wood cabinet designed by Charles and Ray Eames. Zenith called it "The Major" after Major Edwin Howard Armstrong, the inventor of Frequency Modulation, among other things. It had two FM bands in anticipation of FM moving to the band we have now, which was then known as "FM 100". Isn't it beautiful? I'm going to go listen to mine right now!
26:30 "We're just using these tubes to make chess sets..." and grabs a Philco globe style 45 tube! I hope it was tested and known bad before becoming a King on some chess set!
Very cool. Radio almost dead center of the thumbnail is one I own, a Radiola Superhetrodyne. Its one of m the few in my collection that doesn't work. It might work if I had tubes for it, but 8 UV199's are more $$ than I want to fork out.
Bought my AK20 with UX201A's for less than the value of the tubes. Nice shape, bad interstage trafos. Re-stuffed the transformer cans with modern ones and it works and looks fine now. Bought it more for spare tubes honestly but it was an easy repair.
I used to buy and sell vintage electronics at the radio-museum swap meets. My consistent experience is that the guys who run this museum give a whole new meaning to the concept of disorganization.
Hello! My name is Yulia, I am a producer on the Russian channel REN TV. We would like to use this video for our new educational program. please tell me how possible this is? thanks for the answer
Looking for a 1030s spy radio, with auxiliary amps, should be about the size of a small upright piano light green with German markings, separate rec.and Trans. Antennas , used in America by saboteur... tried to destroy Wright airplan factory
Jazzy colour, the size of a _piano,_ and with _German_ insignia; and it belonged to a German spy operating in, ie, against America?! I'm familiar with that old bit of pop psychology that says that every criminal, deep down, wants to be caught... I guess there's something to that, after all! On second looking, I see that, notwithstanding what is presumably a typo, this happened in the 1930's, well before America was in the war. Still, not exactly discreet...
