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    The Shortwave Radio Thread.

    I'm listening to Jack Benny on a station somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.2 Mc, program called "Classic Radio Theater".... Nothing like OTR on, well, an old time radio. What do you have, and what are you listening to on it? Sent from my SM-G386T using Tapatalk
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    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    Jack Benny Show, 3/18/45. Sent from my SM-G386T using Tapatalk
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    Your favorite movie quotes

    Several nominees: Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone "I have two guns, one for each of you." "Nonsense, I'm in my prime." (back and forth) "Wyatt is my friend." "H***, Doc, I got a lot of friends." "I don't." Sam Eliott in "We Were Soldiers" at the fight by the anthill when they were...
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    What sparked your fascination with the "Golden Era"?

    I begin to think two words : Night Court. Sent from my SM-G386T using Tapatalk
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    Basic Radio Question

    The hollow-state TOs have their own issues. The 1L6 tube tends to go south, making the radio less and less operable the higher the frequency goes, the obvious issues with ancient paper capacitors, and the selenium rectifier. There is a solid state plug-in "tube" that replaces the 1L6, there is a...
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    Basic Radio Question

    Very old thread, but here's my .02: A Zenith Royal 3000 Trans-Oceanic. It's a virtually modern radio; a solid state AM/FM/SW (and IIRC) LW receiver built heavy like the tube radios but with almost-indestructible transistors. The 3000 has a plug for AC power outside and 9 standard D cell...
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    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    CBS Workshop on WAAK.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Yeah, the Internet has not been good to SWLing. I tried to QSL Radio Moscow several times, and only got a card after they became the Voice Of Russia. .. Sent from my SM-G386T using Tapatalk
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Shortwave radio. The ORIGINAL alt-news media. I actually miss Radio Moscow... Even before you listened long enough to tell it was RM, you could tell their audio quality (or lack thereof) immediately. They always sounded like they were broadcasting from one of the old wooden phone booths in the...
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    Show us your Guns!

    Deer hunting season here in TN ended last night at sundown (except for the juvenile hunt next weekend), so a classic deer rifle seemed in order. 1894 Winchester Saddle Ring Carbine in .25-35 with factory express sights. 1906 manufacture, a bit new for a factory letter....
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    Show us your Guns!

    Recent adds are a Mossberg 26B (1936-39) and a 151K (1950-51), both Golden Age .22s. Both still projects, but I will post pics when they are fit to look at.
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    What Other Forums do the FL Crowd Frequent?

    Time to weigh in... I am a regular at a LOT of gun sites, mostly Golden Age military stuff, and moderate one of the only Krag-specific forums on the Web. Gallifrey Base, a Dr. Who forum TNDeer, a hunting forum And honestly I am on so many I have long since lost track.
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    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    Ok, if we grant your assertion that the 300Bs that ran on the sand were race-prepped by Lee Petty or whoever (an assertion that isn't well-supported by the documents IMO; clearly IMPLIED but not well-supported) and would be 10% faster on asphalt, the "somewhat slower" for a showroom stocker...
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    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    Saw the pics, and that era is exactly why I prefer 50s and 60s era cars. I have spent too many Sunday afternoons stuck behind the Smoky Mountain Model A Club on Norris Freeway as those things struggle to maintain 45 up even modest hills. I appreciate old iron as much as anybody else, but it...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Doctor Who, a slightly guilty childhood pleasure...
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    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    Put a 300 and a Gullwing next to each other and, as a good friend of mine would say, the Mercedes would need to bring along a spare set of doors. The 300, depending on year, has well over 100 more horsepower. And in some cases 150 or more; 413s were available in the 300H (1962 300H not the '69...
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    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    For some reason, I can't see the images...
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    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    There's something intrinsically... RIGHT about a red Dodge. The D-500, Dodge's 1950s retail race car. While the 300 was intended for executives needing high speed transportation, the D-500 was a NASCAR stock car, almost fully prepared from the factory. The 1950s Chrysler 300s, Dodge D-500s...
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    When did the penny drop?

    Scott County, Tennessee seceded from Tennessee when Tennessee seceded from the Union in 1861. Formed the Free State of Scott and independently declared war on Germany in 1917. Never signed the Armistice, so was at war with Germany until they re-joined Tennessee in 1986. That's a 69 year...
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    When did the penny drop?

    AS 1941 became 1942, it would become more and more difficult to see any possible scenario where the War would end well for Germany. I imagine I would be a Sailor, and at my age (mid 40s) in all probability being a Veteran of the Kaiser's Navy whether a salty CPO feldwebel or a senior...

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