Radio Daze: Collectors host fascinating auction of antique radios

Metro West Daily News ^ | 12 February 2006 | Chris Bergeron

[RadioAstronomer]

Just dug out one of the larger tubes.

(RCA 4-1000A) - I have like 10 of these.

[Professional Engineer]

Love the pic! She will make a fine engineer/scientist I bet! :-))

She's getting an early start on the tinkering part. Here, she helped me change the blower from our furnace.

[RadioAstronomer]

:-)

[Denver Ditdat]

(RCA 4-1000A) - I have like 10 of these.

You're sitting on a gold mine. The 4-1000As list for $300-500 each. Seriously!

[Lurker]

It's not near as glamorous as it sounds. Mostly I just sit down here, monitor PD and FD traffic and wait for something really bad to happen.

When there's something bigger than a Box or 2nd Alarm we have additional assets we can roll to the scene to assist the firefighters. We also are 'Weather Spotter Central' during bad weather. That's what the HAMs are for, among other things.

Personally, I think what you do is waaaay cooler than what I do. I mean spotting planets in other systems by the way they make their stars wobble is pretty fancy stuff.

But I do wish I had just 1/4 of this stuff in my puter room!

Gotta go..gotta fire.

L

[Clinging Bitterly]

Radio porn...

When I was a kid I had a Hallicrafters 5R10A (very much like the S-38D but without the CW mode or standby switch). Fun little SWL rig, it took me all over the world. Don't remember when or why I got rid of it (didn't have some features I wanted, probably) but I never should have. Nothing since has been so much fun.

I think my stepdad's old 8R40 is still out in the garage. I don't know what happened to it (it was still nice when I lived in the house) but it's too rough for restoration IMHO.

These days when I get the chance (which is to say when the wife is gone because she hates it) I SWL with a Yeasu FT747GX transciever. It's not the same, nothing sounds as good as the old tube rigs. I would really like to get another vintage tube rig some day.