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Anybody out there in Fly-Over Country like old radios?
I been out here in Fly-Over Country for so long I was 45 years old before I ever met a Democrat.  Anyway my favorite INDESTRUCTIBLE radio is a Grundig Party Boy 500 from Germany circa 1973...  It's fantastic. It has outlived a lot of my radios. I once left it outside for a while and it started to rain...and I forgot about it. A half hour later I remembered my radio was out in the downpour. I dried it out and a couple of days later it was back to normal. That was six years ago. It's a tank! |
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Posted: November/14/2023 at 14:10 |
 https://www.radio museum.org/r/Grundig_Party_Boy_500 |
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Posted: November/14/2023 at 14:15 |
 I also have an Elite Boy 500 Grundig radio...it was even BETTER than the Party Boy. It could separate signals like a laser beam...but, alas, the volume control slide broke a couple of years ago and would cost HUNDREDS of DOLLARS to get fixed.... |
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Posted: November/14/2023 at 14:22 |
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These German radios cost $200-300 bucks back in 1973.....
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Posted: November/14/2023 at 14:39 |
 When I was a kid on the farm my Mom bought me a radio from a mail-order catalog. She knew that I did not have a transistor radio like my sister did. So she ordered a Viscount AM/SW/Marine Band radio and surprised me back in 1963.   That radio was fantastic. It was built by Toshiba. AM band, Short Wave, and Marine Band...I could pick up England, Luxemburg, and Radio Moscow on Short Wave and of course all the AM music locally. Radio Museum says it was a terrific radio. I have three of them today in my collection. |
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Posted: November/14/2023 at 15:19 |
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My first personal radio was a Crystal set something like this:
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 I have an ITT Schaub Lorenz Touring International radio from Germany. They did not import these radios to the USA. I got this on eBay from a guy in Germany. The radio was UNBELIEVABLE! But after about seven years it JUST QUIT for no reason. But it was freaking amazing. https://www.radiomuseum.org//ITT_Touring_International  |
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My parents had one of these old RCA set:
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 This radio weighs about six pounds...it's King Kong.... |
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 I had an ancient old Philco radio in the barn when I was a kid...we mounted it on one of the old beams in the ceiling and plugged it into a light socket with a plug in it....when I turned on the lights the radio came on "automatically" (after the tubes warmed up...)..... Over the years the radio got whitewashed whenever the barn got whitewashed every other year...  |
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Posted: November/14/2023 at 16:05 |
 Me and the cows could listen to The Four Seasons and Brenda Lee while I shoveled manure..... |
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 Back in the OLDE DAYS Channel Master was a GOOD RADIO....I had a Viscount....but I have a 14 Transistor Channel Master now... from the early sixties....sometimes it wanders off the signal but that may be due to weak batteries....  |
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Posted: November/19/2023 at 09:32 |
 I have a Telefunken Partner Special 101 I haven't used it since I left Dallas/Fort Worth seven years ago...it had a slight BUZZ in it....but it works... I sent away to Germany for this one... https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/telefunken_partner_special_101.html  |
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But I have to admit that this Grundig Party Boy 500 is my Go-To Radio....it is freaking THE BEST. I paid $18 dollars for it on eBay plus $12 dollars postage! It has outlasted EVERYTHING....some of which I paid $160 bucks for! |
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Posted: November/19/2023 at 09:58 |
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Where the heck to you find room to sleep in your place Ed?
Nice collection!
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I put new batteries in it a few days ago. Right now it is blowing me out of my apartment with Mexican music! ¡Olé! |
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Oh, heck, I've got acres of room in my bedroom....the 800 books are in bookshelves....the radios are here and there.....the guns are in the corners and here and there.....don't ask me about my DVDs....that's becoming an EMERGENCY.....
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My DVDs are burying my set of Encyclopedia Britannica......
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