What radio do you own?

duuuuude - i had one of these as a kid

Unitra DMP-404 from 1976
alarm-clock radio
Sencor portable digital FM radio with mp3
Tesco analogue radio (it has LW and MW surprisingly)
also my turntable has a FM radio too

why in the name of fuck I have so many radios.

ok zoomer

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This is what it used to look like

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>listening to what (((they))) want you to know

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Mine is a bit more worn from having to clean off some grunge, but still works great. I have a ton of radios. I have these 2 and I'll be getting an RE-7300 from my gradfather's estate next weekend. I have another couple older ones plus ham equipment.1/3?

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2/3

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Very Nice.

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based

I still use my ipod on it too.

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Radio is objectively terrible, I'm surprised it still exists
>garbage quality
>more ads than music

My publicly funded radio station doesn't have ads.

>Dosn't even know what radio is
nice try zoomer

>unironically listening to talk radio
And clearly I was talking about AM/FM broadcast radio, your poor comprehension is not my problem

>Categorizing radio into talk radio and "AM/FM broadcast radio"
fuck off

same model. not one in photo
works

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mine has all knobs on it
works. don't turn it on much ever
haunted
got digital radio

I have the exact same one in ops pic. Have had that thing since I was a little kid.

>Millions of cars still have no Wi-Fi /cell signal to stream radio
>Radio doesn't have data limits
Main reason right there

I love the old radios from when stations were so few they marked the dial with the station description/call letters to make them easy to find.

there are fewer now, desu.

There's still tons of station (Shortwave seems to be dying)
I guess you had to build your own labels on radio pic related. But I remember markings for stations on the east and west coast But you hit every station you could hear. Every one of those stations with the exception of WOW seems to still be on the air, and there are a lot more locals out there. Broadcast radio may be past the glory days, but it's far from dead.

GE Spacemaker

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Swiss military E-606.

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GE Superradio II

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Elecraft KX3

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TH-D74a

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I'm pretty sure my phone has the functionality, but I haven't used a radio in like 15 years.

>your phone can listen to short wave radio
zoom zoom

I'm gonna be honest, here.
I don't know what shortwave radio means.

Yeah obviously, so why'd you make such a silly comment?

according to this article, my phone can indeed tune into the radio:
androidpolice.com/2018/06/26/samsung-enabled-fm-radio-us-unlocked-galaxy-s9-s9-latest-update/

I assume that's what we're talking about, here.

Dream machines are pretty decent alarmclocks. I bought a cheapo clock from walmart that was timex and hated it. the Sony has a few features and a bit better things like LEDs and settings. the radio recpetion is pretty crap so idk if i'd rely on it for that. that said, i only ever use my car radio, alarm clock radio, or online streaming.
a lot of AM channels are really local and nonestablishment and are a great way to plug into events going on in your local community. FM channels seem to be mostly music and mainstream crap.
some phones do have FM bands, i wish mine did. I use the alarm function on my phone too but im a heavy sleepier and i kike to have redundent devices for my alarms.

Wow, you're technically right. Great job!

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a quick google shows that radio functionality has been built into a large number of phones over the years. which is something you probably should have known, if radio is important enough to you to call random people out about it.

Why is is that people who know the least yell the loudest?

Is this PEAK Jow Forumstard Jow Forums?

>technically

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I have this in my kitchen.

I went through 2 or 3 in my bedroom. They all died within a year. Upgraded to pic related, and it's been working great ever since.

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>radio functionality
It's maybe sufficient for a normie, but a phone's FM radio is quite inferior to most units.

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you can't possibly consider listening to the radio anything other than normie.
enjoy your Top 40 and being wrong, scrub.

Go away little pajeet

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noice

Why is HAM stuff so fucking expensive, that radio is early £8000

10/10

Radios are much cheaper buying used or handheld, depending on what you get

Get a license ($15) + Baofeng UVR5a ($20-30)
After that you can annoy those ham boomers because you didn't waste thousands of dollars on old equipment.

UV-5R 8W

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I have a Tecsun PL-380, use it to pick up a few shortwave stations.

>plug into events going on in your local community
just leave this board, forever

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Shortwave is not the FM broadcast band.

Get a license ($15) + Baofeng UVR5a ($20-30)
After that you can annoy those ham boomers because you didn't waste thousands of dollars on old equipment.
This is like getting your driver's license and buying a Kia Rio. Then, taking it to a car show to annoy the boomers because you didn't waste thousands of dollars.

What amplifier are you using with that?

Pro-Ject Pre Box RS and Sony N80ES. I've been looking for one of the TOTL integrateds from the era for the collection but they're rare.

There's nothing on the radio worth listening to except non-english speaking radio stations. They say the radio waves from decades ago are still out there somewhere. I'd like a radio that could pull in some signals from the 40s to 90s.

well, it's not as if I claimed it was.

Propagating away from Earth, genius.

I'd like to find one of these to match my SA-8500. I'd also be fine with a 7500 or 9500 (II or I) that hasn't been beaten to shit.

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what are you even talking about?

Nice. Good luck with the search. If I get another tuner it'll probably be a Kenwood KT-8007. I love the looks and they're supposed to sound great too.

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Just need a long antenna

And a way to get in front of those signals, which are traveling at the speed of light since they were broadcast. Good luck.

I had a KR-4400 that was nice. Pic isn't mine.

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An another RTL-SDR reporting in

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t.brainlet

Radios? None but I've built some mixers before but I never get them to work terribly well. Probably because I'm trying to mix low frequency signals with relatively large amplitudes. 0.2-2Vp-p or so. Rather than high frequency low level signals. I also have trouble getting it to output AM instead of DSB-SC.

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>radio - in $Current year
or even
>television - in $Current year

man, unless you are Ted Kazynski, you should know that radios are a bid old-fashioned. I would not shame you for owning it because there may be some radio stations that do not suck, but I am really really really unsure if that is the case.

If you don't know what a radio is get out right now

You can't get on HF with a Baofeng.

any recommendations for a new antenna?

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Pioneer TX608L
Not my pic.

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The rubber ducks that come with Yaesu radios are pretty good (for rubber ducks).

yeah I've not had any problems with it but I keep hearing
>rubber ducks are fucking garbage, bin it and but a new antenna
anyways I'm new to ham radio so I don't have much to compare to

No rubber duck antenna will match the performance of an outdoor unit. So make or buy an outdoor antenna and hook your radio up to that when you're at home.

One rubber duck isn't going to vastly outperform another unless it's one of those huge ones that's like 1/2 wave long.

thanks for the tips, I'm already looking for a cheep outdoor antenna

Yes, of course. He could also walk around with a yagi, but this is a HT we're talking about.

Sony dream machine

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