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.
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I'm pretty sure my grandmother still has my grandfather's radio. It looks like one in the picture.
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.
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.
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
Thems dead sexay.
I remember seeing the second one at my grandparents house when I was a kid!
Shortable Portwaves