Re: [IRCA] Old, but common radios

[Milspec390@xxxxxxx]

Yeah, yeah, C -
 
  HD Rollout is flying low, 'frying chickens in the barnyard', like Major 
Kong's B-52 in Dr. Strangelove. HD radio sales astonishing. Stream formats 
exploding. Interference? Cheaszy myth fabricated by few insomniac radio buffs.
 
And, you spoil it by bringing up era in which radio was fun. Shameful!
 
First Fury III with RB 440 RB, the one that spun main bearings during 
high-speed 'oil burner' zoot through Attleboro, MA, freezing night in '78, lacked a 
radio. 
 
Russel N. 'Butch' Perry had 'solution'. His junkyard atop Hopkinton, RI's 
promontory majestic, Chase Hill, sold car radios. Purchased one to spec. Early 
50's Ford, vacuum tube. Fifty cents, few moments installation, and music filled 
Fury as Fury's four barrel, like F-106 in full burner, filling southern RI 
foothills with soothing intake roar. 
 
Combination of vacuum tube reproduced music and over powered, heavily 
polluting V-8's is positively alluring, probably because it so offends some, even as 
it tenders pleasure.
 
 
 
This was a time when all hope had long since circled the drain and vanished. 
Yet, Ford radio filled wintry nights commuting to hell with WQXR's classical 
elegance. 
 
 
 
  Days, on rare occasions when both sun shone and mind's eye could see it, 
WLIB 1190 raised blood up with invigorating soul & reggae music and David 
Lampell's hate-news.
 
 Ford radio, mounted on center hump of rubber, puke-proof interior, was 
magic. It croaked out Roy C.'s "Every Woman Has the Right", and latest Lee Eldred's 
"Shackin' Baby" with equal aplomb. 
 
 When at home, lovely little Emerson AM & HF Bakelite table radio, found at 
neighborhood yard sale ca. '81, literally bound one to outside world and those 
who frequent it.
 
 Alan Christian's WBAL right-wing hate talk show was magnificent. During era 
when termites were onna roll, Christian reassured, they were rolling to 
oblivion. He was right. He and I enjoyed several chats. Areal pro, no ego, plenty of 
facts to back his statements. 
 
What became of him?

No matter. Almost thirty years ago. That little Emerson, whose HF from 1.6 to 
ca. 5 Megacycles worked rather well, was pure magic. Viewed from behind, as 
some have said, its interior resembled the Chicago skyline.
 
                                                                              
paul vincent zecchino
 
manasota key, fl
26 0408Z AUG 07
AR
 
 
 



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