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Record players and Hand held radios

Can you remember when you had your first record player and a hand held radio with one ear piece.
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Gibbon · 70-79, M Best Comment
My first handheld radio was a crystal radio with a single ear piece no battery required
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@Iwillwait No power switch since no power required. Some had an alligator clip to clip to a length of wire or any floating metal as an antenna ie a window frame or gutter. Mine had a loop antenna built in. A crystal radio is always on basically.
Iwillwait · M
@Gibbon explain that, no power needed, how is this getting power?
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@Iwillwait An inductor and capacitor circuit connected with a diode, the crystal, are directly resonated by the AM signal when tuned. This is very low power fed into a high impedance speaker in the earphone. This allows hearing the audio without external power. This existed decades before the 9 volt battery.

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
I remember my red transistor radio. It was made in Japan. Living out in the country as I did I had a hard time trying to find the nearest top 40 AM radio station so I listened to a country station that was much closer. I am still a fan of country music.
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
Vaguely. I had a little transistor radio by around age 12, I remember listening to it on the school bus. And I had a little 45 RPM portable record player when I was maybe 8 or ten.
Adstar · 56-60, M
I was spoilt as a little kid.. We had a full sterio system with nice headphones used to play my old favourite Vinyl album and sit for hours boppin my head to it..

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YoMomma ·
I never but i remember getting my first iphone 😅
I got a portable record player when I was young. Never had a handheld transitor radio, but I remember them.
hunkalove · 70-79, M
I first heard The Beatles in January 1964 on a handheld transistor radio with an earpiece. I was 13.
Iwillwait · M
Long time ago in the 70's.
Pretzel · 70-79, M
first radio was 1965

 
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