7.09.05

Category: dribblings

someone at the Holy House threw away an old radio and dad picked it up out of the trash thinking, “i’ll bet jaimie would like this.” so when i got there he was all, “hey, do you want this old radio?” and i said, “oh man! where’d you get that?! i can have it? really?”
so here i am with this very ugly RCA Victor tube radio.
i know.
tubes.

one word: bakelite

it’s a small table radio. “small”. hee. it doesn’t work, well…maybe it does, right? but i’m not plugging it in. no way. besides, one of the wires on the inside isn’t connected to anything and i can’t figure out where it needs to go.
i can tell it’s been worked on before. the power cord looks new, new as in from the ’60s. ha. i think the radio itself is from 1949, this i’ve gleaned from the internet. and i think some of the tubes have been changed out.
man, the inside of this thing is hilarious.
but i’m having the best time reading about old radios and tubes and superheterodyne receivers, which is short for supersonic heterodyne receivers. again, ha. old radio stuff is goofy.

i’d like to get the radio working, although i don’t know why. it’s AM. and it’s not very pretty. i guess it’s just one of those, “don’t tell ME i can’t fix it!” things, but also, i can’t fix it. mainly because i’m not willing to spend any money on it. because hello? dumb radio or food…this is not a hard choice.

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