Happy World Radio Day!

[orangecrush]

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From my collection...

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Show us your radios!


Top - TR-20 Hallicrafters "Village Radio".
This radio was made under contract for the CIA in the mid 1960's, for use in a secret program that provided friendly villages radios to report V.C. movement to Special Forces operators. It even has a " self destruct" button that blows a fuse and disables the radio, in the event of impending capture. The writing on the controls is Vietnamese.

Below - Me last summer, operating late 1950's 20 tube National NC-183D shortwave receiver, with Vietnam era high impedance military headset.

[Kali]

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[orangecrush]

2. Thanks Kali!

[lagomorph777]

3. I love the smell of warm vacuum tubes in a darkened room.

My parents' old tape deck, my Hammond organ, these are a few of my favorite things.

[orangecrush]

4. Same here

It's pure magic.