AM Radio

[InbetweenDreams]

Like the song by Everclear you used to be able to hear the music on the AM radio. Post a song you used to hear on the AM radio in this thread...

[InbetweenDreams]

[andy]

Besides being into computers... I used to try and fix old broken radios like this one when I was a kid...

My fav AM station was a 60's Classic Hits station in France or Luxembourg that played this song almost every hour!

Tina Turner - River Deep, Mountain High

[InbetweenDreams]

Besides being into computers... I used to try and fix old broken radios like this one when I was a kid...

I started to kind of get into that. My grandparents had a console stereo from the 60's which needed recapping or rather an electrical restoration but I could never get my hands on a working tube tester. It was a neat unit, had an automatic record changer (played 78/45/33/16) and was one of the very early radios that did FM stereo or "stereophonic" as they called it back in the day. The pre-amp circuit needed re-capping for sure as you would get loud pops and crackles with the volume all the way down to 0, although I guess that could have been in the amplifier which if I remember correctly used 12AX7's and a 6L6's. Oh it was a 3 channel system, you had your right and left and the center which had a 12" woofer, it did get quite loud.

[andy]

Mike @InbetweenDreams that's really cool!  My gran had a console stereo too... they call them radiograms in the UK and were really popular in the 60s and 70s. They looked like a bit of quality made wooden furniture when closed up!



A lot of the radios I used to get hold of had old valves (vacuum tubes) in them too. I didn't have a tube tester either as they cost a bomb. Sometimes it was easy to see if they were blown. There was an ancient radio/tv/electronics shop I used to visit in Glasgow that had almost all the old valve parts or could order them in quite cheaply!

I might try and get hold of an old radio that's beyond repair on Fleebay and gut out all the old internals and fit in a Raspberry Pi with small LCD touch screen for Spotify and internet radio etc. Would be a really cool little project.

[Bookworm]

Radiograms lol that takes me back to my childhood! I think every house seemed to have one. That looks quite similar to the one my parents had.

I might try and get hold of an old radio that's beyond repair on Fleebay and gut out all the old internals and fit in a Raspberry Pi with small LCD touch screen for Spotify and internet radio etc. Would be a really cool little project.

Nothing quite like channelling your inner geek