Portable transistor pocket radio-with one ear plug

[OneEyedDiva]

My Sony Walkman died years ago. I actually have a mini transistor radio for emergencies. I don't even know it there's an earphone jack. I imagine there is. Last time I checked (years ago), it worked. If I was listening to music, I'd have to use both ear buds. Listening in mono would make me crazy.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

My transistor radio wasn't a well-known brand. I got it at Ames Discount store, so it was a no-name Japanese import, like the pic. I think mine was red. The radio could pick up 3 or 4 stations, depending on which you pointed it. At least, it's crummy tiny speaker played 'rock n roll', and not Doris Day songs. As a teen in the 60s, what else could you ask out of life?

 

[Furryanimal]

I remember that single piece earplug.
They never seemed to last long.
But I do have a working Sony Walkman!

 

[Flarbalard]

But I do have a working Sony Walkman!

Braggart. Just being silly. I'm unsure at this point if it's sarcasm or envy.

 

[IKE]

Still have my old GE 7-2840 that I purchased back in the 80's and it still works great.

Old thread ----> Transistor radio.

 

[Michael Z]

I don’t know about the ear plug, but we had an alligator clip that we attached to the barbed wire fence to get better reception.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Yet another good use for Joseph Glidden's invention. He lived in DeKalb, Illinois, close to the clearing in a massive cornfield that I grew up in.

 

[Dave03]

I remember listening to Chicken Man out of Philadelphia, late at night.

 

[Inept]

Thick blankets, alligator clips, and Johnny Burnette.

 

[dilettante]

The market is actually full of small radios today, from sub-$10 on up.

 

[squatting dog]

I had a small Sony around 1957. It was so great lying in bed at night listening to Mel "the mouth" Allen as he broadcast Yankee baseball.

 

[Inept]

I had a small Sony around 1957. It was so great lying in bed at night listening to Mel "the mouth" Allen as he broadcast Yankee baseball.

 

[Inept]

I remember there was a way to improve your transistor radio with a Radio Shack or Heath Kit component. Come on guys, help me out here. Not tubes, of course, but something else. What were they called? Was it the number of transisters themselves that could be increased or was it something else?

 

[ChiroDoc]

In the late '70s, early '80s we'd occasionally take in a Dodgers game at Chavez Ravine in L.A. The great Vin Scully was so popular that the majority of the crowd brought transistor radios with them, all tuned to his radio broadcast of the game. So many people participated that you didn't need your own radio. You could hear Scully's coverage anywhere in the stadium

As SquattingDog said, Fred Allen was also wonderful. Personal nostalgic favorite? Bob Prince of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

 

[Michael Z]

I used my portable transistor AM/FM radio to listen to virtually every single Milwaukee Bucks game done by Eddie Doucette.
http://www.eddiedoucette.com/articles/doucette_dictionary.pdf

 

[dilettante]

I remember there was a way to improve your transistor radio with a Radio Shack or Heath Kit component. Come on guys, help me out here. Not tubes, of course, but something else. What were they called? Was it the number of transisters themselves that could be increased or was it something else?

Well they do sill sell a number of these. No power, but they can be tuned to a station and then pick up more signal they re-radiate near your receiver.

 

[Babs2u]

I bought a small transistor radio at Radio Shack and listened to Art Bell when I couldn't sleep.

 

[OregonGuy]

I had a crystal set, Not really a radio; only got one station,
Had to touch the crystal in just the right place .
No volume control. No battery or electricity.
old crystal radio sets - Bing

 

[OregonGuy]

Well they do sill sell a number of these. No power, but they can be tuned to a station and then pick up more signal they re-radiate near your receiver.

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old crystal radio sets - Bing

 

[Jace]

I still have..and

it has come 'in handy'
when power goes out
Checked.it out..Super 6, Solid-state
Brand: Ultra Tone

 

[dilettante]

old crystal radio sets - Bing

That isn't a radio, it's an antenna booster.

 

[Inept]

Well they do sill sell a number of these. No power, but they can be tuned to a station and then pick up more signal they re-radiate near your receiver.

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Standard KGB issue. But that's not what I was talking about.

 

[Inept]

I remember there was a way to improve your transistor radio with a Radio Shack or Heath Kit component. Come on guys, help me out here. Not tubes, of course, but something else. What were they called? Was it the number of transisters themselves that could be increased or was it something else?

I had a crystal set, .....

Crystals! That's what I was thinking about! Thank you, OG.

 

[Manatee]

I had one of those when I was in the Navy. It would not play inside the ship, I had to go out on deck to listen to it.
Years later I used to play Spanish lessons on my walkman.

 

[Inept]

... I used to play Spanish lessons on my walkman.

José Feliciano, Freddy Fender, or Ritchie Valenzuela?