Underground bomb shelter radio in 1961
It's 1961 and you're in an underground bomb shelter. You have a battery-operated radio. Do you get reception in the bomb shelter?
What would you need to get television reception underground? I guess they didn't have battery-operated teevees then, so how would the television be powered? Sorry to be so ignorant, but I'm like the German sergeant on Hogan's Heroes. I know nothing!:no: Thanks.:banana: |
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Thanks, Jeff. That makes sense. I'll do a search on Conrelrad and see if I can confirm that.
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There was battery operated TVs in 61'. The first genuine portable was mabe by philco in 1959 more info on it can be found here http://www.earlytelevision.org/philco_safari.html Other companies may have gotten into the batery operated portable game soon after. I know Sony entered that game at least as far back 1964 because I have one from that year, and from reasearching it I learned it was the smallest production TV set in the world up to that time (which blew me away as it was a childhood impulse buy long before I collected TVs).
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Wow. That's great. Perfect! Now I just need to make sure the battery-operated
radio and teevee get reception underground in a bomb shelter. In my story, there won't be an atomic incident. They'll just be underground. You know what would work for my story? The small bunker is accessed from a ground trap door and you need to climb down a metal ladder. If something heavy was on the trap door, the people inside couldn't get out. If the portable teevee/radio could be made to explode up by the door, thereby opening it, without harming the people inside down below, that would help my story. I know that's not likely. If it depends on having some other stuff in the bomb shelter, I can arrange that. I can always use something like dynamite (I think), but it would be cooler if the portable teevee or radio did it. Thanks! Quote:
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Motorola came out with the " Astronaut" 19" portable around late 1960. Like the Philco, it was considered to be a hybrid, because it had a HV rectifier tube. Sony came out with a 8" metal cased portable around the same time. It was the one that had the three push buttons, on the bottom front. That too, was a hybrid design.
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Thanks. I'll look those up, too. What do you mean by "hybrid" design? I know what the word hybrid means but not in the context of televisions.
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At this link, it says to test radio reception in the bomb shelter, so it looks like it's possible!
http://www.atomictheater.com/familyfalloutshelter.htm I guess if radio reception is possible in this 1960 film, television reception in 1960 might have been possible, too! This is way cool. |
"Hybrid" meant it had both tubes & transistors.
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Doh! Thanks. I should've figured that out, huh?
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Not necessarily, but it is obvious once its explained. But how else would you learn if you didn't ask ? "Hybrid" construction lasted in color TVs til about 1975 or so.
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1975? Wow. I thought once "solid state" came into being the tubes were gone.
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Tubes were cheaper than transistors at that time, so there was some overlap. The top of the line sets would be solid state and the cheap ones would have tubes.
I haven't come up with a perfect idea to blow up a TV/radio. Will keep thinking :) I have a sealed can of crackers on the shelf from about '61, put out for civil defense. They were made by Sunshine Biscuits. The guy who I got them from bought several cans, and opened one (this was about 15 years ago). Him & I tried them and I guess the best thing I can say is, they were edible! |
The last few years of hybrid sets were wierd. For instance I have a 71' Zenith Chromacolor that uses several tubes, a bunch of transistors, and one IC chip (these later replaced individual transistors). I've also read about a Sharp set that uses tri-generational technology like my Zenith only it had a freaking OSD (On Screen channel Display)!
I recall some 50's electronics magizine that ran a section on TV DX(DXing is long distance reception) where they claimed that some european stations had enough power that under the right conditions they could/were be recieved in a basement with only the blade of a screw driver as an antenna! VHF stations would be most plausible for extreme reception situations as UHF stations were on higher frequencies, and the higher a radio frequency gets the more it behaves like light, and starts to require a line of sight to the transmitter. My college is using a large CD can as a recycle bin in one room, and has a fallout shelter sign at one stairwell. It is so cool to go to an older school! |
1961, huh ? I'm blasting out to the Club in my pale-yellow '61 Lincoln convertible sedan, w/black/white leather interior...Si Zentner's "Up a Lazy River" is on the TRANSISTORISED radio, there's this young guy JFK in the White House, the Sixties look like they're gonna be a GREAT decade...
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