My first antique radio - 1952 Zenith H723Z1 AM/FM

[Cleve]

I won a Zenith 7 tube AM/FM radio on Ebay a week ago Tuesday. It arrived safe and sound on Monday. it was electrically restored, and functions wonderfully...



I find myself playing this radio a lot. I had a cheap set of rabbit ears which I hooked up for an additional antenna (I live in a quite rural location) Last night, instead of watching on TV, I elected to listen to the Buffalo Sabres/Montreal Canadiens game on the Zenith. It was funny, listening to the radio when I could have watched it on the big screen in HD with surround sound in the 'theater' room.

It was very pleasurable listening to the game, though. The radio gives off a nice, nostalgic "tube" aroma that brings back memories - when I was a kid just about everything was tubes.

I bought the radio to take to my office... but now I don't want to take it from home. Guess I'm going to have to buy another radio.