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Anyone Have An Old Transistor AM/FM Radio?

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CorporateSuit

I was watching the M's game on Tuesday until just before 8 PM when the other half had to watch something on Fox. So I went to upstairs, hopped into bed and turned on my alarm clock radio to 710 to listen to the play-by-play. Wow, felt like I was a kid again listening to the games in the dark with my old little radio under my pillow.

Then 8 PM...pattern change....PHFFFFTTTFTFTFTFTFTTBUUZZZZPFFFTFTFTTF.......Well, sheet.

So anyone got a little old plastic portable hand-held AM/FM transistor radio from the 1970's?
 
I have the next best thing, the Sangean DT 400W. I've had the previous one with TV band but they made this one with WX and an alert function. No SAME messaging but it's still has a surprisingly good front end on it for all bands. Needs an earphone wire or antenna wire both supplied to complete the FM reception. The AM is good too.

CCrane sells a similar one too called the CC Pocket Haven't tried it yet but it has more presets than the Sangean
 
I have a radio shack labled transistor AM/FM labeled model # 12-725. I don't know if it it worth anything, but it feels solid in one's hand. Has an antenna and headphone jack. Probably circa mid to late 70's. It has been sitting in a drawer for probably a decade. Have not even tried to replace the batteries. But I am fascinated by it, and will keep it just for its history sake.
 
I have a Lloyds 2 transistor (yes, I said 2!!) circa early 1960-something with a real leather carrying case. Works great, looks great. Oh, and it receives AM and FM..
 
I still have a Silvertone transister radio from Sears that I got in 1958. Still works great. Since they don't make the round 9 volt battery anymore, I had to modify it to work with a flat 9 volt battery. It even has a Conelrad 640/1240 symbol on it!
 
i have an old am only panasonic from the time they dropped the national name from their logo. its a little portable table top type deal. it runs on wall power or 4 double a batteries. it gets lots of am very well since thats all it has. i still am looking to find a super powerful am radio that gets anything from anywhere even if u have a cheap or good antenna. i seem to be in an area that is loosing to am cause of power lines and hills that are around. its like unless u have a super powerful am antenna all ur gonna get is either a weak signal or lots of noise.
 
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