• oDDmON@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 months ago

    My Dad bought one and took it with us on family camping trips.

    I still remember the weird and eerie warbles, chirps and harmonics; creepier than many camp fire ghost stories, under the right conditions.

  • SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    6 months ago

    I’m pretty sure my grandmother still has my grandfather’s radio. It looks like one in the picture.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    My grandfather used to love listening to short wave. I eventually took up an interest and became a ham radio operator on HF. Wish he could’ve seen. He loved listening to far away stations.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      My grandma did too, my older cousin installed a big antenna outside her window, and she had a portable tuner like this.

      We had a Blaupunkt with short wave for our vw beetle as a kid too (early 80s), but I don’t remember it ever working, and regretfully took it apart when I was around 12, and don’t think it ever went back together.

  • Hikermick@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 months ago

    My family had one of these. When playing with it I had no idea what I was doing but occasionally I could pick up sounds like the drone at the beginning of Empire Strikes Back