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I was surfing around, looking at vintage consoles for sale about a month ago and remember reading something about a kit. It was almost in the form of an ad; buyers praising the melding of current and vintage technology. "My grandmother’s vintage Philco has new life!" or some such, but I can't find it anywhere...
Many of the other antique radio forums are spending a lot of time lamenting the loss of long established stations (like WCBS-FM in NYC) in favor of these canned "Jack" "Mike" and "Jane" formats. This trend hasn't hit here in Phoenix yet (at least to the stations I like) but who knows. Seems like those in public broadcasting would look to improve the quality of their programming, in an effort to keep people from switching to XM or what ever, but it’s getting worse. Some even feel the end of the AM/FM bands is in sight. A bit to much doom and gloom I think. It’ll take a long while for that to happen.
But if satellite is the way it's going, fine. In fact, I hear they broadcast old time radio shows on some channels! That would be a gas to see the technology come full circle and listen on a proper tube console.
Thanks for the great advice and input Chad, as always-
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