You need to use the telescopic anttena on shortwave for it to pick up stations
@RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb
Ай бұрын
Yes.. I will never live this down.. but honestly I wasn't even getting static and wondered if the band selector switch was even working.
@kazcat8096
Ай бұрын
@@RonsRadioCorner-xg2fbgood point 😊
@WPM_in_ATL
2 ай бұрын
Yesterday would have been my Dad's 98th birthday. He had one of these radios!
@RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb
2 ай бұрын
That's really cool. I see stuff online (KZitem, eBay, etc.) or when I go out to consignment shops and think, gee my grandmother had one of those, or I remember that in the house when I grew up.
@richardpattison5525
Ай бұрын
Love the video. I thought you might get some music from 1964 on there ....only joking keep the videos coming
@RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb
Ай бұрын
my local AM station plays music one hour every weekday and I try to catch it on this radio just because it seems right!
@richardmerriam7044
Ай бұрын
There ARE oldies stations on AM. I can listen to two of them here in Concord NH during the day. They're easy to find online. Not many, but broadcasters know about the ambience of AM for the oldies format.
@RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb
Ай бұрын
There are some music stations on AM but very few seem to be near enough to me to pull them in clearly during the day.
@rmlln2722
3 ай бұрын
This is the exact model that was dropped by the US Government into the countries of the eastern bloc during the Cold War so they could receive Radio Free Europe broadcasts. I have one, its why they have the elaborate vapor barrier packaging
@RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb
2 ай бұрын
I wonder if that vapor packaging has helped keep the components from deteriorating? It seems there are a few people who have bought this "new" decades later and had luck getting them to work with little to no effort.
@qwertykeyboard5901
2 ай бұрын
I bet it was more "giving free money to GE" then it was effective.
@JosephSimonis
22 күн бұрын
Mine had clumps of crud in the tuner, blew it out and it worked fine. Found it at a ham fest years ago.
@RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb
2 күн бұрын
It seems everyone who has one can get it to work.. which isn't a bad thing!
@MrCuddlyable
3 ай бұрын
Ron never thinks of extending the telescopic antenna for shortwave. Sigh.
@RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb
2 ай бұрын
I honestly thought I would get at least static and wondered if I would need to contact clean the switch (which I did). I did try this out on SW later but didn't film it and was pleasantly surprised to pick maybe a 1/2 dozen SW stations with the the mast up. I'll have to do a video at night where I can play around with the SW band a bit more.
@brandonquinto4852
2 ай бұрын
Very cool!
@RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb
2 ай бұрын
I suppose it could be the newness factor, but I find I am constantly grabbing this radio and looking to see what I can pull in! It's not the best performer, has NO FM, but it's just fun to be able to use it.
@HansDelbruck53
3 ай бұрын
Best watched at higher than Normal speed. What's NIB?
@RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb
2 ай бұрын
NIB means New In Box, which was new to me too! I was familiar with NOS - New Old Stock! And if I listened to me, I'd probably speed it up too!
@Gridl6
Ай бұрын
That looks a lot like a GE radio that I bought while in High School. 64-65 or so. It was not as good as some Japanese radios, or some American tube radios that I had.
@RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb
2 күн бұрын
Yeah, 60 years later it feels like it was not the top of the line model, but it seems most people who have one are still able to use them.. so that's saying something!
@derulocruz8217
Ай бұрын
u did not test SW
@bellytripper-nh8ox
2 ай бұрын
to Ron's Radio Corner: at the 8:05 mark, in your video here, you said "NOT REALLY GETTING ANYTHING ON THE SHORTWAVE BAND!!" **EXTEND THE METAL TELESCOPING ANTENNA TO FULL LENGTH!!** WELL, DERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! HERE IS A VIDEO OF THE EXACT SAME RADIO YOU HAVE, BUT WITH THE TELESCOPING SHORTWAVE RADIO ANTENNA FULLY EXTENDED kzitem.info/news/bejne/2YaArYhnpGihZ4Ysi=Hi5VRXO0IbzhsNkb
@RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb
2 ай бұрын
I thought I would at least get some static and was really wondering if the switch was working. I played it later that same night and pulled in maybe a 1/2 dozen stations. And I have seen that video.
@KongKingman
2 ай бұрын
A “radio guy” nor into AM/SW??? Maybe you should change the name of your channel…
@RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb
2 ай бұрын
I like the "idea" behind radio, maybe the nostalgia behind radio. But, finding something ON radio that I want to listen to is a challenge. It is cool to occasionally scan the dial for some far away channel.
@KongKingman
2 ай бұрын
@@RonsRadioCorner-xg2fb perhaps you should try SW, and the basics behind it?
@qwertykeyboard5901
2 ай бұрын
@@KongKingmanTbf, atleast half of it is religious garbage.
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