On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 2017-Oct-07, at 2:39 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote: > > Good collection start Al! > > What homed you in collecting Hallicrafters? > > > > We have various SW radios at SMECC but I was really touched to get > > hold of a S-40B like I had in my youth. Now to put new power supply > > capacitors in it and make it Fly. > > > > I imagine there are a number of folks on list that like radios too as > > before we were able to own computer to do electronics with in the > times > > of old (50s & 60s) we ll played with radios, got ham licenses, > > shortwave listened, got CBs or had a pirate neighborhood radio station! > > SW is dead. The internet killed it. > > You can fix your S-40B but there won't be much to make it fly with. > > There are a couple international broadcasters left, but nothing like it > used to be. > I was an SWL'er as a kid in the 70s, learned a lot about the world. > Voice of America, Armed Forces Network, Radio Japan, Radio Hilversum > Holland, Deutsche Welle, HCJB Voice of the Andes, Radio Prague, Radio > Moscow, Radio Peking, BBC, etc., etc., etc. > Listening to the Cold War play out on the international airwaves. > > Pretty much all gone. Left between the static are a few religious > broadcasters. > > Are the numbers stations still going? -- Charles
