Re: [IRCA] Zenith radios

["Clarence Lozano" <jeeper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice story. Clarence Lozano
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Zenith radios


> Started DXng '62 w/tube Zenith T/O w/square dial. Our family had one as 
> did
> close family friend, 'Uncle' Joe Lorenzo. Lorenzo set in basement study
> adjacent to blonde Philco TV. Lent Cold War surrealism to tense foreign 
> b'casts. Red
> twinlead tied T/O to Wavemagnet. You could practically see signals flash
> blinding white sparks as they bounced from sky to walls to Wavemagnet. 
> Indeed, many
> saw.....
>
> Tied our T/O in Pt. Judith RI to wire antenna strung out to tree, grounded 
> to
> pipe driven in salt tidal pond. Vistas opened. Ship/shore, air/ground,
> foreign SW BC's, US MW's busted in. Sold late '82 along w/RF-2800 for 
> second R-388,
> which runs 24/7. Probably buy another T/O w/in next year but not yours. If 
> you
> have one, keep it, fine asset, beautiful DX machine.
>
> Presently have Royal Crown 7000 T/O once owned by Jack McG____., former 
> State
> Dept. diplomat and drinking/poetry crony of father of lifelong friend,
> 'Judge' Stephen. McG. gave T/O to 'Judge' Stephen's old man, who shortly 
> thereafter
> croaked. Prior to croaking, 'Judge' Stephen's old man, real life judge, 
> gave
> T/O to 'Judge' Stephen, who blared snot out of it nightly working as 
> dishwasher
> in college.
>
> Fall '84, Royal Crown 7000 T/O falls silent, 'Judge' Stephen disgusted &
> magnanimous. Tells undersigned: "Fix it, keep it". Complied. Presently 
> located in
> workroom/backup radio room/storm shelter. Works great barefoot, w/wire
> antennas or w/RatShak MW loop.
>
> Every receiver has a story.
>
>
>                =Z.=
>
> pv zecchino
> manatransoceanic key, fl
> bt
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