$1 Sony Radio

[SC Maintenance]

Anyone interested in Radio - no affiliation but check out Radio Jay Allen's website. He tests all kinds of radio's - old and new. Excellent write ups and non commercial site.

Wish I could find an excellent performing car radio

https://radiojayallen.com/

 

[dishdude]

This thread got me thinking, the only AM/FM radio (other than in the car) I own is a Sony clock radio on the nightstand next to the bed. I keep it there so I can see the time if I wake up in the middle of the night and as a redundant alarm to my phone. If I use my phone to check the time, I'll get sucked into whatever notifications came in and never get back to bed. I don't think I've ever used the radio portion of it.

 

[aquariuscsm]

I have this exact same radio. It was my dad's, maybe when he was in his 20s?

 

[Mr_Luke]

I have this exact same radio. It was my dad's, maybe when he was in his 20s?

That's either a 60s or a 70s radio by the looks of it.

 

[97prizm]

What is the year of manufacture?

 

[dishdude]

That's either a 60s or a 70s radio by the looks of it.

I think he was saying his dad owned it when he was 20-30 years old not that he owned it in the year 1920.

 

[SC Maintenance]

That's either a 60s or a 70s radio by the looks of it.

I agree. "Solid State" pretty much means 60's are as old as it possibly can be.

 

[aquariuscsm]

I think he was saying his dad owned it when he was 20-30 years old not that he owned it in the year 1920.

Yeah I think he had it when he and my mom met, early to mid 1960s.

 

[eljefino]

My Mom had a Motorola portable radio (probably still has it) that bragged about it's "nine transistors." Ran off a 9V battery.

Used to listen to Dave Maynard on WBZ in the morning while eating this not-mini-wheat cereal that was just a hay bale covered with milk, and a lot of brown sugar.

As for TV broadcast spectrum, the cell people keep coming for more. TV UHF used to go up to channel 83. They took above 69 in the early 90s and we're down to 51 if not lower now. The frequencies are coveted because of how they penetrate walls. Switching to digital TV just lets broadcasters use PCIP to alias their former analog channel assignment to keep branding consistent. In the 90s one could use a TV in the 70-plus channel range to snoop on 1G cell conversations while Radio Shack was forbidden from selling police scanners with the same skillset.

 

[Lubener]

What is the year of manufacture?

From its color, knobs and layout, I would guess sometime in the 80"s. Maybe even early 90's.

 

[methusaleh]

My Mom had a Motorola portable radio (probably still has it) that bragged about it's "nine transistors." Ran off a 9V battery.

Used to listen to Dave Maynard on WBZ in the morning while eating this not-mini-wheat cereal that was just a hay bale covered with milk, and a lot of brown sugar.

“Maynard in the Morning”!! I grew up in that era. Liz Walker, Barry Burbank, I’m sure a few others I could think of…

 

[mk378]

As for TV broadcast spectrum, the cell people keep coming for more. TV UHF used to go up to channel 83.

With the latest (and possibly last) "cram down," all TV stations are below channel 37 now, and most of what was 38-83 is cellular.

To keep the cost of a TV receiver low, analog TV sets had poor rejection of unwanted signals, especially on certain other channels related to the channel tuned in. When a TV station was licensed on a channel, the FCC had to set aside several other channels to be left empty. So even though it appeared that every city had many empty TV channels, a potential new broadcaster couldn't actually get a license for any of them. Digital TV sets do not have this limitation, and often all the channels in a city are allocated adjacent to each other.