SW RADIOS both old analog and newer digital plus related equipment.

mjp28

I still have this one too sold by what used to be a great store RADIO SHACK the Realistic DX-440 maybe 25 to 30 years ago also sold as the Sangeon 803A.

In perfect condition with the big strap with it.

mjp28

Just a little look back, I still have some of my old amateur radio stuff from the 1960s in my mother's basement.

I also know I would never pay $199 for the DX-440 shown here, I was very thrifty as a youngster.

DieHardBrownsFan

I've got a couple of SW radios also. One is the crank up for power type if you have no electricity. The other is a rather large one with a very long wire antenna I bought when I was stationed at Naval Radio Receiving Facility, Kami Seya, Japan. I could pick up broadcasts from the then Soviet Union, North Korea, China, etc. I haven't used it since the 80's. I think I have it in a box in the garage somewhere.

The Gipper

You will need it after the Apocalypse

TexasAg1969

Since we had no TV in the first place I lived in Venezuela my Dad got one of those original Zenith Transoceanics new out of the box in 1959 or 1960. It was great. Listened to stations all over the world. My first introduction to pure propaganda from Radio Moscow and Radio Havana up until more recent pure propaganda from the Orange Pumpkin.?

The Gipper

@texasag1969 said:

Since we had no TV in the first place I lived in Venezuela my Dad got one of those original Zenith Transoceanics new out of the box in 1959 or 1960. It was great. Listened to stations all over the world. My first introduction to pure propaganda from Radio Moscow and Radio Havana up until more recent pure propaganda from the Orange Pumpkin.?

Deju Vu?

mjp28

@texasag1969 said:

Since we had no TV in the first place I lived in Venezuela my Dad got one of those original Zenith Transoceanics new out of the box in 1959 or 1960. It was great. Listened to stations all over the world. My first introduction to pure propaganda from Radio Moscow and Radio Havana up until more recent pure propaganda from the Orange Pumpkin.?

Wow, about 1960 interesting times, no cable, computers but radio was big stuff post Korea and WWII.

I was 10 in 1960 when my dad started teaching me about electricity then later radio then TV before I was in high school. When I was about 13 I got my FCC Amateur Radio Novice and Technician Licenses I had the theory and 5 wpm code speed. At 16 I had my FCC General License and 13 wpm code speed. As a sophomore and junior we had radio and TV in high school, they cancelled Radio III my senior year.

My dad worked his way up to an E-8 or 9 during WWII and Korea to be the chief electrician on BB-62 the New Jersey. At US Steel he became an Electrical Test Enigeer and also studied TV in the 1950s which he did as a hobby and second job. He was an excellent teacher.

I was big into amateur radio until I started college, we had a 65' tower out back and a lot of other stuff......fun hobby led to a great start in my working career.

Until computers, satellites, cable TV, the internet it was a fun hobby, I still liked to try my SW radios once in awhile......might dust off the good ones some day.

mjp28

Another old SW receiver which has been in our family first made in 1955 an old relatively inexpensive tube radio the National SW-54, my one brother has it now. A cheap find now at hamfests.