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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHappy World Radio Day!
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Show us your radios!
Top - TR-20 Hallicrafters "Village Radio".
This radio was made under contract for the CIA in the mid 1960's, for use in a secret program that provided friendly villages radios to report V.C. movement to Special Forces operators. It even has a " self destruct" button that blows a fuse and disables the radio, in the event of impending capture. The writing on the controls is Vietnamese.
Below - Me last summer, operating late 1950's 20 tube National NC-183D shortwave receiver, with Vietnam era high impedance military headset.
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Happy World Radio Day! (Original Post)
orangecrush
Feb 2022
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orangecrush
(19,662 posts)2. Thanks Kali!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)3. I love the smell of warm vacuum tubes in a darkened room.
My parents' old tape deck, my Hammond organ, these are a few of my favorite things.
orangecrush
(19,662 posts)4. Same here
It's pure magic.