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<\/a><\/p>\nSo, we can easily see this is gone beyond the simple addiction to a more complicated “relationship” with these devices. These two came from a good home via Craig’s List for $25 each. They are in pretty good shape having lost a filter capacitor from the GE and the power cord from the RCA. They are now number 3 and 4 in line for modernization. It is believed that the GE will be a good “boomer” with fine reception and a big speaker.<\/p>\n
Last Saturday, my wife and I took a drive out to the home of the Maritime Radio Historical Society’s receiver site outside Inverness, CA. It isn’t a long drive from where we live, a meander through the Marin country side along Tomales Bay. It is in a very remote location, one that remains a quiet zone for radio noise. There are no large emitters of noise in the area.<\/p>\n
The site began operation in 1925 and you can tour it virtually HERE<\/a>. We were greeted by the warm and informative Steve King who stewarded us around the inside of the site and explained the history using a wonderful story line. You can get a good idea of what was going on in the era of radio in the 1920’s by reading Wikipedia’s article on RCA<\/a>. There are other nuances and lore found on the MRHS website pertinent to KPH and how it ended up as part of the National Seashore.<\/p>\n There will be more on old radios soon.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The addiction continues – today I added a RCA Victor 4X (the small one in the photo) and a General Electric E-72 All-Wave. The GE is an AM broadcast, Police, and SW receiver. The RCA is an AC\/DC table top model and both date from the 1936 time frame. So, we can easily see this … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,15,16,17],"tags":[143,151,737,1043,1317,1418,1556,1741],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-2036","7":"format-standard","8":"category-california-history","9":"category-faits-divers","10":"category-science","11":"category-sea-stories","12":"category-thinking-about","13":"post_tag-all-wave","14":"post_tag-am-broadcast","15":"post_tag-general-electric-e-72-all-wave","16":"post_tag-maritime-radio-historical-society","17":"post_tag-police","18":"post_tag-rca-victor-4x","19":"post_tag-short-wave","20":"post_tag-true-believer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}