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RADIO PICS!

Here are some interesting radios from my collection!

This radio is not currently in working order.   It needs to have the battery compartment rebuilt.  It covers the AM (mediumwave) band, and the shortwave spectrum from 1.7 to 21 MHz.  When working it has absolutely incredible "room filling" audio!   It has a rectangular-shaped pop-up "loop" antenna for the shortwave bands.    The case is actually wooden but has a kind of leatherette cover.

This radio is not currently in working order.   It also needs a battery compartment rebuild (and maybe some other things!).   It covers the long, medium and shortwave broadcasts bands between and 25 meters (3.95-5.7 MHz., 5.85-6.3 MHz., 7-7.4 MHz., 9.5-9.775 MHz., 11.7-12.1 MHz.).   The bandscale is marked in meters (even long and medium wave!) and reads from left to right instead of from right to left as was the practice in the former Soviet Union.

This particular model was designed for the domestic Soviet market as the writing on it is entirely written in Russian cyrillic script.

There's a popular "myth" that everything sold under Radio Shack's brand name is "crap".  That's certainly not the case!   Over the years they produced some good stuff and some crappy stuff.  The Realistic TRF 12-656 was certainly "good stuff".   It has a "tuned radio frequency" design and is quite good at pulling in distant signals.   It was relatively cheap and many hobbyists modified them with a 4 KHz. Murata filter.   This unit still works today!

This is an RCA Model 85-T2 (serial number 294) manufactured by RCA Victor in Montreal around 1937.  A family member found this radio at a yard sale.

It covers the AM broadcast band along with the shortwave bands between 6 and 18 MHz.

This radio will need some "major surgery" in order to get it working again.   At present its just being used as an "ornament".   (I'll post a better picture when I get around to it!)