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> On Oct 7, 2017, at 6:46 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > >> On 2017-Oct-07, at 2:39 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote: >> Good collection start Al! >> What homed you in collecting Hallicrafters? >> >> We have various SW radios at SMECC but I was really touched to get >> hold of a S-40B like I had in my youth. Now to put new power supply >> capacitors in it and make it Fly. >> >> I imagine there are a number of folks on list that like radios too as >> before we were able to own computer to do electronics with in the times >> of old (50s & 60s) we ll played with radios, got ham licenses, >> shortwave listened, got CBs or had a pirate neighborhood radio station! > > SW is dead. The internet killed it. > > You can fix your S-40B but there won't be much to make it fly with. > > There are a couple international broadcasters left, but nothing like it used > to be. > I was an SWL'er as a kid in the 70s, learned a lot about the world. > Voice of America, Armed Forces Network, Radio Japan, Radio Hilversum Holland, > Deutsche Welle, HCJB Voice of the Andes, Radio Prague, Radio Moscow, Radio > Peking, BBC, etc., etc., etc. > Listening to the Cold War play out on the international airwaves. > > Pretty much all gone. Left between the static are a few religious > broadcasters. >
