Classic AM FM Radio find

[nocomradio]

Was rummaging around the local thrift store and came across a very nice old Radio Shack Realistic 12-1466 Tabletop Stereo Radio.

Paid a whopping $4 for it and got it home, plugged it in and it works like a champ! That thing has an excellent, and very sensitive AM tuner in it. I am pulling in AM stations from a good distance during the daytime hours that my car radio won't even touch. That is on the built in antenna too! It has an FM antenna connection on the back. This thing even looks good. I suspect it was sitting on someones table or shelf for years.

The only info I could find on it was an old newspaper ad from 1971 where it sold for $44.95 on sale and was regularly $59.95. Seems like a pretty substantial amount for the time. I didn't get the separate stereo speaker for it though. Here is the link to the ad. Its a PDF scan of the paper page:

http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper4...nd Recorder 1971 May-Jun Grayscale - 0201.pdf

 

[vibe]

You never know what you can find; there was an article about a woman who thrift shops; bought a pair of gucci shoes for $2, it didn't fit her but she e bayed them for $350.
I found a cool am fm 8 track with a real good am tuner in Fla for $1 or 2. But I gave away my 8 tracks a few years ago to someone who still used 8 tracks.
Have fun with the new find.

 

[ddsparxx]

Several years ago, I was at the VA Bazaar fleamarket off on I-95 just north of Richmond and found a perfectly working GE Superadio II there.

 

[nocomradio]

The VA Bazaar is a good place to find some interesting stuff sometimes. Manor Mart up North on RT 1 is also a neat place. Never know what you'll find. Pawn shops used to have some neat stuff, but they all seem to deal in coins and jewelry now. Antique shops sometimes have some old tube radio sets that don't work lying around that you can still pick up fairly reasonably too.

My Realistic was pulling in Charlotte NC very clearly last night even with all the lightning.

 

[ddsparxx]

Sounds like the 12-1466 is an excellent DX radio. Radio Shack used to make some really good radios like the TRF-655 (?) AM "Long Range" portable. Now a days any radio that is carries the Radio Shack brand is likely to be lousy, like the GE Superadio-sized "Extreme Range" which probably has a little ferrite bar antenna inside.

 

[cyberdad]

Several years ago, I was at the VA Bazaar fleamarket off on I-95 just north of Richmond and found a perfectly working GE Superadio II there.

Yup...and as I posted earlier, I found a GE Superadio II in perfect condition for $1 at a church rummage sale. I've had it on just about every day since I got it about six weeks ago, and I'm still on the same set of used D cells that I put in when I got it!

 

[cd637299]

^ Toljaso!

I saw an unusual console radio in a shop last week....it was a Crosley, likely made around 1948-ish. It had FM, but the FM readout on the face of the radio was 200-300! (for the "channels" the FCC assigned, no doubt)....

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[nocomradio]

^ Toljaso!

I saw an unusual console radio in a shop last week....it was a Crosley, likely made around 1948-ish. It had FM, but the FM readout on the face of the radio was 200-300! (for the "channels" the FCC assigned, no doubt)....

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And you didn't bring it home!? ;D

 

[Time Traveler]

I have found a couple of GE Superadio 1s at thrift stores....for $5.00 and $2.00!!!!!

 

[FreddyE1977]

Nice find! I have bought some very nice radios at Goodwill stores and at church rummage sales
for five bucks or less.

 

[Ai4i]

...the FM readout on the face of the radio was 200-300!

I'd love to see one with channels 21-99, someone somewhere somehow has got to have one!