Posted on 12/29/2013 2:27:14 PM PST by Vision
Friends, it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.
*tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
Nice. Welcome. I never had it but like grain beverages.
Eeeevil and addictive! :-O
Oh, man. I remember this one now. They have to go tell the cop’s wife he was killed. He was the one having the New Year’s party. So sad!
Oh, boy! The fireworks are starting in our neighborhood, starting in earnest! BOOM! BOOM! BAM! CRACKLE CRACKLE!!!
Bing Ping!
I was just thinking that and said it out loud! THE VOICE!
I have an antique Philco tombstone style farm radio from the 30’s. I won it in a bet.
I built a small circuit with a microcontroller and a 32gb SD card that plays random songs, commercials and plays from the early days of radio. I placed this inside the radio and hooked up an orange LED to illuminate the old radios tuning dial.
Old farm type radios are good for this since the speakers have a permanent magnet and not a powered magnetic coil, so you can drive them easily.
The radio’s on/off volume control switches the board from sleep mode to active mode and controls volume... there is over 50 hours of old radio files on the SD card and still room for more as I find them.
Several people have commented that they wish they had a similar old radio.... might be a good ebay sale item. There are cheap Asian import radios that look like old radios and would be a good base for constructing these. :-)
I used to listen to one such a long time ago, no idea now about the url but I bet there are several out there..try google.
I got the files for my old radio from usenet groups that specialize in old radio mp3 files.
YES! Delicious Jello, in more flavors than ever!
And for all you kitchen warriors, here’s an easy, fast, delicious dessert recipe using peach flavored Jello brand gelatin!
Peach Cobbler Dump Cake
1 (29 oz) can sliced peaches, drained, juice reserved
1 (6 oz) package peach flavored (JELLO!) gelatin mix
1 (18.25 oz) package yellow cake mix
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup water
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place peaches in bottom of 9x13 cake pan (cutting in large chunks, if preferred, to more evenly distribute). Sprinkle dry peach gelatin evenly over peaches. Evenly sprinkle dry cake mix over gelatin. Cut up butter and evenly distribute over cake mix, or melt butter and drizzle it. Combine the 1 cup of reserved peach juice and 1/2 cup of water, and gently pour evenly over the top.
Bake 55 minutes, give or take a few, until golden brown.
Here's our 1936 Atwater-Kent, functional!
Yes, it was Buck Rogers before Buck Rogers was cool! :-) The COLORS! :-)
...Don’t fence me in...
lol
That’s a real beauty!
It has a magnificent dial face.
Repairing these old radios is usually easy. Most have bad capacitors that cause them to have a loud hum or have a bad tube. Often you have to re-string the tuning mechanisms or troubleshoot the power supply. A beautiful case is the most important thing to have and you certainly have that in this radio!
I keep thinking a classic wood shell with an internet radio inside.
Dream girl, dream girl....
A raspberry pi with wifi dongle would make that an easy project :-)
Beautiful, Lustre Cream Girl! :-) I now remember all these shows Ed played last year.
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