I did a search and I saw great pictures of some of these radios. They are
just incredible. I notice that they often came with a panel on the back
side that came up. I wonder what that was for?

Not too long ago I was at J&R's (electronic store), and I did see replicas
of vintage radios. And I did see a Trans-Oceanic style radio. It looked
like the radio that was use in the Spirit of St. Luis. But this one did not
have SW, (dam)! I forgot the name of the brand!


And I think that The Shaper Image makes one too.

73!

I did a search and I saw great pictures of some of these radios. They are
just incredible. I notice that they often came with a panel on the back
side that came up. I wonder what that was for?


If you are talking about the tube type from the 1950s that panel
lifted up from the front and was a cover for the radio dial to protect
it as well as a holder for the wavemagnet antenna...
I have an H500 from 1952? or so that I should restore one day....
If your talking about the later solid state ones, I have no clue.

Some shortwave radios had a list of sw broadcast stations and frequencies -
maybe that's what it is for.

Strength and Honor

"ROBMURR" wrote in message
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I did a search and I saw great pictures of some of these radios. They are
just incredible. I notice that they often came with a panel on the back
side that came up. I wonder what that was for?


If you are talking about the tube type from the 1950s that panel
lifted up from the front and was a cover for the radio dial to protect
it as well as a holder for the wavemagnet antenna...
I have an H500 from 1952? or so that I should restore one day....
If your talking about the later solid state ones, I have no clue.

That was for easy access to the innards.

"S R" wrote in message
...
I did a search and I saw great pictures of some of these radios. They are
just incredible. I notice that they often came with a panel on the back
side that came up. I wonder what that was for?

Not too long ago I was at J&R's (electronic store), and I did see replicas
of vintage radios. And I did see a Trans-Oceanic style radio. It looked
like the radio that was use in the Spirit of St. Luis. But this one did
not
have SW, (dam)! I forgot the name of the brand!


And I think that The Shaper Image makes one too.

73!

"S R" wrote in message
...
I did a search and I saw great pictures of some of these radios. They are
just incredible. I notice that they often came with a panel on the back
side that came up. I wonder what that was for?

Not too long ago I was at J&R's (electronic store), and I did see replicas
of vintage radios. And I did see a Trans-Oceanic style radio. It looked
like the radio that was use in the Spirit of St. Luis.

The Spirit of St Louis had no radio.

S R wrote:
I did a search and I saw great pictures of some of these radios. They are
just incredible. I notice that they often came with a panel on the back
side that came up. I wonder what that was for?

It's an antenna, which Zenith called the Wavemagnet, and which was
detachable and could be used at the end of an extension cable for best
placement.

--
John Miller
Email address: domain, n4vu.com; username, jsm

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
-Louis Armstrong

"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
om...


The Spirit of St Louis had no radio.



That's right. Lindberg figured it would better to carry extra fuel
rather than a radio.

But "Spirit of St. Louis" is now a brand name for some really cheesy,
weird imported products:

http://www.allfunkystuff.com/Spiritofstlouis.htm

The SOSL Alarm Clock Radio sorta fits the original poster's description.

Frank Dresser

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:54:45 -0500, "S R" wrote:

I did a search and I saw great pictures of some of these radios. They are
just incredible. I notice that they often came with a panel on the back
side that came up. I wonder what that was for?

Not too long ago I was at J&R's (electronic store), and I did see replicas
of vintage radios. And I did see a Trans-Oceanic style radio. It looked
like the radio that was use in the Spirit of St. Luis. But this one did not
have SW, (dam)! I forgot the name of the brand!


And I think that The Shaper Image makes one too.

73!

I have a couple different models of these. They perform very well for
a tube radio. I perfer listening to the radio on a tube radio over the
new ones. My collection of tube radios are mostly from the 30's and
40's. My collection now includes 67 true radios.
Hang on to the Trans-Oceanic radios, they are becomming very
collectable.

I have a couple different models of these. They perform very well for
a tube radio. I perfer listening to the radio on a tube radio over the
new ones. My collection of tube radios are mostly from the 30's and
40's. My collection now includes 67 true radios.
Hang on to the Trans-Oceanic radios, they are becomming very
collectable.

I have a D7000Y that someone gave my father when it was about a year old,
it still works well.

Is anyone familiar with Loewe Opta Radios? We have a Meteor model that my
wife's father bought new in Germany around 1960.
It's an awesome looking radio with MW SW LW And FM bands.
Huge (by todays standards) with a finely crafted wood cabinet.
I've never heard it working and was wondering what kind of performance to
expect when I get it fixed.

Norm
Yarmouth NS Can.

A time zone map? I heard rave reviews of the TransOceanic for years
and finally got one. It was one of the transistor models and worked
very well. I let someone else have it years ago, regretfully, and don't
recall for sure what panel you refer to. However, I believe mine had a
time zone map. Also, some of them had rotateable antennas so you could
use them to zero in on the direction to a station, thus using them for
navigation -- direct toward the station or via triangulation.

Al

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S R wrote:

I did a search and I saw great pictures of some of these radios. They are
just incredible. I notice that they often came with a panel on the back
side that came up. I wonder what that was for?

Not too long ago I was at J&R's (electronic store), and I did see replicas
of vintage radios. And I did see a Trans-Oceanic style radio. It looked
like the radio that was use in the Spirit of St. Luis. But this one did not
have SW, (dam)! I forgot the name of the brand!


And I think that The Shaper Image makes one too.

73!