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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 07:31:30 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote: Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On 19 Nov 2004 01:39:52 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote: Our regional boating magazine is about to observe its 40th year of publication, so I'm digging through issues from each of the first few decades to choose material for an article to lauch the anniversay year. ~~ snippage ~~ T&G Electronics was advertising some VHF radios. (Remember, these are 1965 prices...) The 75-watt, six channel model was available for $299. A 110-watt model, also six channel, was priced at $399. The top of the line, very deluxe 150-watt unit with *8* Channels (!) was a mere $549. (A lot of middle-class jobs only paid about $500/month back then. Imagine taking out an 18-month installment loan to buy a VHF) And those were crystal controlled with flibberdejibbet tune controls. I have one in my collection of antique radios - I'll take a picture today and post it. Gosh...from the days when Radio Shack was a real electronics hobbyist store. First store ever - right across from BU on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. I had a Radio Shack short wave receiver from that my Uncle sent me one Christmas. I was living in WI at the time (before we moved east) and heard the BBC for the first time when I was around ten sitting in my room with wire strung all over the place hooked up to the little transistor "Shortwave" receiver. Sparked my interest in electronics actually. Remember Lafayette Electronics? My first FM receiver was a Lafayette - I'll never forget putting that kit together - took me almost a month working after homework was finished late into the night. Got it together and had to tune it and bought my first piece of test equipment - a signal generator - which was also a kit. :) I remember my father saying "FM - it will never catch on - all they play is classical music". WTMG in Milwaukee in fact had the only FM transmitter in the mid-west at the time. WGN in Chicago was a couple of years behind them. Heathkit was also high on my list of stuff every Christmas when they were still around. At one time I had a ton of Heath amateur radio and test equipment. My Dad's first color TV was a Heath. That was fun. Oh - gosh - how could I forget Allied Electronics on Michigan Avenue in Milwaukee. I used to beg my Dad to take me to work with him at the Milwaukee Sentinel on vacations so I could hang at the Allied store in the afternoon and just look at "stuff". Ah yes - the gud ole' daze... Later, Tom |
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