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Yes lots of good memories here...the magic of finding a new-to-you radio that had magical bands like MB and SW. Wondering what you would hear, maybe something really great that you had never heard before...
I listened to short wave a lot back in the mid to late 70s when I was a kid. I had a Zenith Royal 1000 that I got around 1978. I would sit at the kitchen table for hours slowly dialing and listening to each signal. Some became "good friends" such as Radio Canada, VOA, BBC, South Africa, even Cuba and USSR. And then there was the occasional new find, a station in a country I had never heard before. I recall tuning in Australia, Japan, and Austria for the first time!
What wonderful memories when radio was magical! But it still is, I have never lost that spirit of magic. This is one of the many reasons I love radio!
Gilbert
Last edited by radio63; 08-21-2013 at 08:40 PM.
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