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Old 05-19-2014, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Sandy G View Post
And, as being somebody who's ALWAYS been somewhat "Historical"-Or izzat "Hysterical" ?!?-THAT aspect of it appeals to me. WHAT/WHO/WHERE did my R-3XXs serve, what did they listen to ? The EK-07, as well.. Did a few of my sets tell their owners that the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor, & were they a stalwart companion who soothed a troubled mind in the next 4 years.
LOL, in 1991, I bought an RCA C-13-2 five-band console radio that had a huge hum - which I knew (as would anyone reading this forum) meant the power supply electrolytics were bad. I envisioned people listening to this radio hearing about Hitler and Stalin agreeing to split Europe, about Martian invaders, about German invaders into Poland, about Pearl Harbor, and Hiroshima.

So, I spent an evening finishing up my installation of new electrolytics, hoisted the chassis into the huge wooden cabinet (it's bigger than a CT-100!), hooked everything up, plugged it in, turned it on, and it warmed up to news bulletins of the first US bomber attacks on Iraq in the First Gulf War.
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