Reply With QuoteThe modern equivalent is
- Podcasts
- Streaming
You can get plenty of international services streamed now
TopicToaster
Hello All,
Could some of you radio enthusiasts let me know what a modern equivalent of the following radio would be?
When I turned 21 years of age I used some of my birthday money to buy the following radio... The one that is now considered to be a 'vintage' radio!!!!
Phillips D2603 (1982) | 4 Band Receiver | 2 Loudspeakers
I even found a youTube clip on the internet of the same radio that is part of an enthusiast's collection... accessed 18th of September 2023 from, PHILIPS D2603 (1982) | 4 Band Receiver | 2 Loudspeakers - YouTube
To make things a bit easier for you to base an informed decision off here are the radio's technical specifications.. available from the Radio 'Museum' of all places ... accessed 18th of September 2023 from, D2603 /00 /02 Radio Philips Hong Kong, build 1982 ?, 22 pictures | Radiomuseum
Unfortunately along the processes of getting married and having children it that meant the poor old radio got forgotten. When I did stumble across it I found that the batteries has leaked acid. Subsequently, the plastic base of the radio case was fused to a shelf in my old less than waterproof old shed. Prior to getting married that radio was my only link to the outside world when I lived in a caravan park at Queen Mary Falls in Queensland. I spent hours tuning into overseas broadcasts and I really enjoyed it.
My wife and I have been empty-nester's for some years now, and I finished my studies last year. This means that I have some of that stuff called 'spare time' on my hands. I would like to be able to tune in again to overseas broadcasts. My poor old Phillips D2603 radio stayed on the same shelf in the same less than waterproof shed that I broke it free from probably a couple of decades ago now. So, even without considering its lack of a base to its case, the whole radio's condition can only be described as 'very sad'. Not something another party I cohabit with might consider being suitable for being located inside the house.
One of the things I used to really enjoy about Phillips D2603 was it having dials that needed to be manually turned. So when you learned radio enthusiasts start making recommendations could you please consider radios with the now old fashioned dials that need to be physically turned. Not the modern digital tuner type of stuff. You know the supposedly 'smart' and more 'convenient' automatic tuning features.
Yes - I can be a demanding sort of sod - sometimes. By the way, at the time I discovered the state of the radio I played safe and did not hook the set up to 240 volts. Just out of interest, I am off to track down some D-Cell batteries to check to see if the old radio still works.
Kind regards
Lionel
OldBushie
The modern equivalent is
- Podcasts
- Streaming
You can get plenty of international services streamed now
TopicToaster
Hello All,
An update. I did put new batteries in and flicked the power switch to 'On'. The volume was turned to full and not even a squeak or a pop came out of the radio. I did probably test the radio when I first found that the batteries had leaked acid. I must have just kept hold of the radio as a memento due to what a significant role it had played in my younger life. I could not then bring myself to simply throwing the radio out. During today's check I found that the main tuning dial does not shift the indicator on the band width. There are no sounds being emitted that even suggest that the tuner is being moved when the dial is turned.
The photograph gives you some idea of what acid leaking from batteries can do to the plastic case of a radio over an unknown period of years. Will I be throwing the old radio out ... hmmm there are some things in life that one can inexplicably become attached to - even when their functionality left the item a long time ago.
Kind regards
Lionel
TopicToaster
G'day Tombie,Originally Posted by Tombie
Thank you for your suggestion Tombie. This option is no doubt far superior than my radio was even in its heyday. However, a computer version of a radio is like an ebook version of a hardcopy book. One has the ability for you to hold it in your hands and physically turn the pages over. Feel its weight and if it is an older book, smell its bouquet. See its foxed edges. You know the whole multi-sensory experience of a real book. All this stuff translates to the difference between a version of a streaming computer service and a radio with analogue features. Hmmm, you might know the answer already to what style of watch I wear and what style of clocks hang on different walls in my house.
Yep - call me 'old fashioned'. I can live with it Tombie. It might also just explain my interest in Series Land Rovers. My interest in Land Rovers in general finishes at the D1 Discovery and the 110 Defender. Being the opinionated sod that I am - these were the real Land Rovers. Oh I do include the Perenties as being real Land Rovers too. Yes, the Td5 in the D2 was a Land Rover developed motor. After these models the vehicles became too highly dependent upon electronics. They also suffered from other car manufacturer's - who became new owners - influences. Remember the bit about my being an opinionated sod ... :0) Ummm ... think ... think ... I can live with that too... :0)
Kind regards
Lionel
YarnMaster
Hi,
Ahh, the dials. They had station names too. 7HT, 7HO, 7ZL and I could even pick up New Zealand on a fine night from the top of Mt. Wellington.
Mum had a battery portable that used a 90V battery with a life of about 1 hour.
Cat used to sleep on top of the kitchen radio for the warmth from the valves.
A friend had a similar one with a couple of spring pin connectors on the back for headphones.
Having headphones, I tried to tap into the same wires with pins soldered on the end of the headphone wires.
A BANG and some smoke later, I picked my self up from the floor, some what singed and decided to cancel the endeavour.
Cheers
TopicToaster
Hello Austastar,
Yes, I can relate to what you are saying. I still have my mum and dad's AWA valve radio that was located in the kitchen too. Admittedly I have not turned it on since I inherited it. Would I be showing my age if I mentioned my playing with crystal radio sets in my youth? Umm ... how about my listening to the Woody Wood Pecker show on the radio!
Oh well, having failed to sort out Snowy - my 110 Defender's clutch I will grab some tools and remove the clutch master cylinder from one of my wide-light 2A's. Big gorilla hands and stuff all access space - sounds like such fun. Wish me luck! I currently work two-days a week with 14 hours per week to use at my discretion. I figured today was go and play with Land Rovers day. Apparently, I simply do not have enough frustration in my life. Go and play with some Land Rovers....
Kind regards
Lionel
YarnMaster
Hi,
Or (dare I mention) The Argonauts! Row you blighters.
The Argonauts Theme - YouTube
Cheers
RoverLord
Row! Row! Row!
I appreciate where you are coming from. When I started work in 1962, I spent a fair bit of my first paycheck on a dual waveband 10 transistor Nivico radio. Cost me £70 from memory. I replaced it in 1969 with a Zenith Transoceanic. Both of these I still have, and I think both still work.
A year or two ago I found the four transistor radio that me and my brother built while we were at school in 1957-8. Pretty sure it does not work, seems to have had a few parts removed.
John
JDNSW
1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
Swaggie
Beware of exploding electrolytic capacitors in old radios when powered, especially any in the power supply circuit of 240V equipment.
MY21.5 L405 D350 Vogue SE with 19s. Produce LLAMS for LR/RR, Jeep GC/Dodge Ram
VK2HFG and APRS W1 digi, RTK base station using LoRa
TopicToaster
Hello John,
1962 was a damn fine vintage, John. Especially during the last work day in the first week of December in that year.
I also seem to remember that there was a very suspenseful detective show on as a radio play that was broadcast in the 1960s. I cannot remember what it was. It might have had a magician as one of the central characters. Gee it has been a long time since I even thought of that show - or listening Woody Wood Pecker, come to think of it ...
Hang on wooo wooo some brain cells are sparking I am hearing the name 'Mandrake'? woo woo.
Or was that a serialised cartoon in the now long defunct local newspaper? The Goulburn Evening Ghost ... woopsie that was because it started to become so thin before it closed... Goulburn Evening Post was the correct title. From memory - in my youth the paper was published 6 days a week - excluding Sunday. Then it became a three day a week publication. Then it became a weekly publication ... then it just went.
I left school and eventually found my niche in horticulture working in parks and gardens departments of rural councils. When I had to retrain because of my eyes, I studied and later worked as a Journalist in local newspaper and radio. I studied a Bachelor of Communications Journalism and Cultural Studies. My Honours year was devoted to rural journalism. I had a big fight with some professors to change my proposed PhD major from rural journalism to disability studies. Being born in Temora, growing up in Goulburn and then choosing to follow my various careers in rural and regional areas; I know that when a town loses its local newspaper it is a very very sad thing. Especially, because so much of the town's identity is lost when the newspaper is lost. I will not comment about how access to local updates about natural disasters such as floods or bushfires are lost when the local radio station closes. From that point in time the only news channel available to that local area is broadcast from a capital city that may not be located within that same state or territory as that local town.
Kind regards
Lionel
Last edited by Lionelgee; 18th September 2023 at 04:27 PM.
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