Re: [Phono-L] Off Topic - Radio Conversion
I agree-I have purchased a couple of lowboy Victors and have a beautiful Brunswick as well as a couple of off brand name machines-but like the look and style of the type of work that is hard to find today. I guess being an art and antique restorer just adds to the fact that I love how these machines look. Abe On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:22 PM, William Zucca rochr...@gmail.com wrote: Abe: I think I happen to live in a good location (New England) for this type of machine. Many of the earliest broadcasting stations were in the Northeast and I believe that once AC-powered radios were practical and on the market, folks put their battery sets in the attic and forgot about them. They were a pain in the butt to power and use. Some of the combo machines stayed in the house for the phonograph but today these are often found without the radio. I bought two without radios out of barns but found sets to go into them elsewhere to make a complete set. The early AC radio-phonograph (Panatrope, Electrola) are fantastic devices built like tanks, heavy as hell, and fantastically laid out with beautiful wood, brass or gold hardware, interesting compartments and configurations, and some even have mechanical devices to change records. They are magnificent machines and if I had the money and the space, I would fill a building with them. No table-top, Art Deco, Bakelite sets for me! Nothing like listening to old music and radio shows through a combo machine with an Orthophonic horn. GrnMountainBill On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Abe Feder abefed...@gmail.com wrote: GmMountainBill, You are very lucky, I have been into the antique phonograph hobby about 4 years and have not had a chance to come across any of the radio/phonograph combo's that you list in the wilds of Arizona. While I have gone to the CAPS show the last 3 years I have not seen any of them there either. But one day... Abe On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:44 AM, William Zucca rochr...@gmail.com wrote: I did the same thing since poor AM reception and terrible programming does not lend itself to quality listening time on my old radios. The transmitter works very well and covers my whole house and part of the yard. I am most fond of early radio/phono combination machines like the Brunswick Radiola 160 and III and the Victor 7-11, Victor V V-7-30S, and Electrola RE-57. They are big but they are beautiful. Regards, GrnMountainBill On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Abe Feder abefed...@gmail.com wrote: Well-I just went the old radio route myself and found a low wattage AM transmitter that puts out a signal that you tune to a dead spot on the AM dial. I hooked it up to my CD player and you should see the look on friends faces when I turn it on and you hear The Shadow knows It works really well and having a couple of hundred old radio programs on CD I really enjoy listening to it-and while it might be these old ears it sounds better on this big ol' Zenith than on my up-to-date system. Abe On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Vinyl Visions vinyl.visi...@live.com wrote: A guy was recently throwing this old radio in the trash... it was under a house for years, muddy, rusted guts, black plastic painted with white house paint... trash!!! So, I did what any normal scavenging collector would do, I recycled it. I made it into a retro iPod dock which charges my iTouch and plays wonderful old radio music on Radio Dismuke or whatever source. I never got into radios like phonos, because I didn't want to listen to current music on an old radio... part of the nostalgia of phonographs is the actual music played just like it once was. Now it's the best of both worlds. Curt -- ATTACHMENT -- **An Attachment Was Scrubbed** Name: Snap_2011.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 81598 bytes URL: http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20110424/9be94174/attachment.jpg -- ATTACHMENT -- **An Attachment Was Scrubbed** Name: Snap_2011_2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 81518 bytes URL: http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20110424/9be94174/attachment-0001.jpg ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org ___ Phono-L mailing list
Re: [Phono-L] Off Topic - Radio Conversion
Well-I just went the old radio route myself and found a low wattage AM transmitter that puts out a signal that you tune to a dead spot on the AM dial. I hooked it up to my CD player and you should see the look on friends faces when I turn it on and you hear The Shadow knows It works really well and having a couple of hundred old radio programs on CD I really enjoy listening to it-and while it might be these old ears it sounds better on this big ol' Zenith than on my up-to-date system. Abe On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Vinyl Visions vinyl.visi...@live.comwrote: A guy was recently throwing this old radio in the trash... it was under a house for years, muddy, rusted guts, black plastic painted with white house paint... trash!!! So, I did what any normal scavenging collector would do, I recycled it. I made it into a retro iPod dock which charges my iTouch and plays wonderful old radio music on Radio Dismuke or whatever source. I never got into radios like phonos, because I didn't want to listen to current music on an old radio... part of the nostalgia of phonographs is the actual music played just like it once was. Now it's the best of both worlds. Curt -- ATTACHMENT -- **An Attachment Was Scrubbed** Name: Snap_2011.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 81598 bytes URL: http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20110424/9be94174/attachment.jpg -- ATTACHMENT -- **An Attachment Was Scrubbed** Name: Snap_2011_2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 81518 bytes URL: http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20110424/9be94174/attachment-0001.jpg ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
Re: [Phono-L] Off Topic - Radio Conversion
I listen to baseball games, which haven't really changed over the years, on mine. I have a radiola 17 driving headphones hooked to an adaptor gizmo that mates to the tonearm of my 10-50. Sent from my iPhone -- Peter pjfra...@mac.com On Apr 25, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Abe Feder abefed...@gmail.com wrote: Well-I just went the old radio route myself and found a low wattage AM transmitter that puts out a signal that you tune to a dead spot on the AM dial. I hooked it up to my CD player and you should see the look on friends faces when I turn it on and you hear The Shadow knows It works really well and having a couple of hundred old radio programs on CD I really enjoy listening to it-and while it might be these old ears it sounds better on this big ol' Zenith than on my up-to-date system. Abe On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Vinyl Visions vinyl.visi...@live.comwrote: A guy was recently throwing this old radio in the trash... it was under a house for years, muddy, rusted guts, black plastic painted with white house paint... trash!!! So, I did what any normal scavenging collector would do, I recycled it. I made it into a retro iPod dock which charges my iTouch and plays wonderful old radio music on Radio Dismuke or whatever source. I never got into radios like phonos, because I didn't want to listen to current music on an old radio... part of the nostalgia of phonographs is the actual music played just like it once was. Now it's the best of both worlds. Curt -- ATTACHMENT -- **An Attachment Was Scrubbed** Name: Snap_2011.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 81598 bytes URL: http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20110424/9be94174/attachment.jpg -- ATTACHMENT -- **An Attachment Was Scrubbed** Name: Snap_2011_2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 81518 bytes URL: http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20110424/9be94174/attachment-0001.jpg ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
Re: [Phono-L] Off Topic - Radio Conversion
I did the same thing since poor AM reception and terrible programming does not lend itself to quality listening time on my old radios. The transmitter works very well and covers my whole house and part of the yard. I am most fond of early radio/phono combination machines like the Brunswick Radiola 160 and III and the Victor 7-11, Victor V V-7-30S, and Electrola RE-57. They are big but they are beautiful. Regards, GrnMountainBill On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Abe Feder abefed...@gmail.com wrote: Well-I just went the old radio route myself and found a low wattage AM transmitter that puts out a signal that you tune to a dead spot on the AM dial. I hooked it up to my CD player and you should see the look on friends faces when I turn it on and you hear The Shadow knows It works really well and having a couple of hundred old radio programs on CD I really enjoy listening to it-and while it might be these old ears it sounds better on this big ol' Zenith than on my up-to-date system. Abe On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Vinyl Visions vinyl.visi...@live.com wrote: A guy was recently throwing this old radio in the trash... it was under a house for years, muddy, rusted guts, black plastic painted with white house paint... trash!!! So, I did what any normal scavenging collector would do, I recycled it. I made it into a retro iPod dock which charges my iTouch and plays wonderful old radio music on Radio Dismuke or whatever source. I never got into radios like phonos, because I didn't want to listen to current music on an old radio... part of the nostalgia of phonographs is the actual music played just like it once was. Now it's the best of both worlds. Curt -- ATTACHMENT -- **An Attachment Was Scrubbed** Name: Snap_2011.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 81598 bytes URL: http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20110424/9be94174/attachment.jpg -- ATTACHMENT -- **An Attachment Was Scrubbed** Name: Snap_2011_2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 81518 bytes URL: http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20110424/9be94174/attachment-0001.jpg ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
Re: [Phono-L] Off Topic - Radio Conversion
Abe: I think I happen to live in a good location (New England) for this type of machine. Many of the earliest broadcasting stations were in the Northeast and I believe that once AC-powered radios were practical and on the market, folks put their battery sets in the attic and forgot about them. They were a pain in the butt to power and use. Some of the combo machines stayed in the house for the phonograph but today these are often found without the radio. I bought two without radios out of barns but found sets to go into them elsewhere to make a complete set. The early AC radio-phonograph (Panatrope, Electrola) are fantastic devices built like tanks, heavy as hell, and fantastically laid out with beautiful wood, brass or gold hardware, interesting compartments and configurations, and some even have mechanical devices to change records. They are magnificent machines and if I had the money and the space, I would fill a building with them. No table-top, Art Deco, Bakelite sets for me! Nothing like listening to old music and radio shows through a combo machine with an Orthophonic horn. GrnMountainBill On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Abe Feder abefed...@gmail.com wrote: GmMountainBill, You are very lucky, I have been into the antique phonograph hobby about 4 years and have not had a chance to come across any of the radio/phonograph combo's that you list in the wilds of Arizona. While I have gone to the CAPS show the last 3 years I have not seen any of them there either. But one day... Abe On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:44 AM, William Zucca rochr...@gmail.com wrote: I did the same thing since poor AM reception and terrible programming does not lend itself to quality listening time on my old radios. The transmitter works very well and covers my whole house and part of the yard. I am most fond of early radio/phono combination machines like the Brunswick Radiola 160 and III and the Victor 7-11, Victor V V-7-30S, and Electrola RE-57. They are big but they are beautiful. Regards, GrnMountainBill On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Abe Feder abefed...@gmail.com wrote: Well-I just went the old radio route myself and found a low wattage AM transmitter that puts out a signal that you tune to a dead spot on the AM dial. I hooked it up to my CD player and you should see the look on friends faces when I turn it on and you hear The Shadow knows It works really well and having a couple of hundred old radio programs on CD I really enjoy listening to it-and while it might be these old ears it sounds better on this big ol' Zenith than on my up-to-date system. Abe On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Vinyl Visions vinyl.visi...@live.com wrote: A guy was recently throwing this old radio in the trash... it was under a house for years, muddy, rusted guts, black plastic painted with white house paint... trash!!! So, I did what any normal scavenging collector would do, I recycled it. I made it into a retro iPod dock which charges my iTouch and plays wonderful old radio music on Radio Dismuke or whatever source. I never got into radios like phonos, because I didn't want to listen to current music on an old radio... part of the nostalgia of phonographs is the actual music played just like it once was. Now it's the best of both worlds. Curt -- ATTACHMENT -- **An Attachment Was Scrubbed** Name: Snap_2011.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 81598 bytes URL: http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20110424/9be94174/attachment.jpg -- ATTACHMENT -- **An Attachment Was Scrubbed** Name: Snap_2011_2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 81518 bytes URL: http://oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/attachments/20110424/9be94174/attachment-0001.jpg ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
