[Hallicrafters] Re: Hallicrafters Digest, Vol 23, Issue 17

[Phil Barnes-Roberts WA6DZS]

hallicrafters-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
{snip}
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Ipods and radio
> From: ~DA~ <iluznst at yahoo.com>
> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:38:56 -0800 (PST)
> To: Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> 
> 
> I actually own an iPod and they're not that bad. I
> have it loaded with every episode of "The Shadow",
> "The CBS radio Mystery Theatre", days on end of WWII
> broadcasts and a host of other radio programs. There
> 's enough material on there that I'd have to stay
> awake for 76.2 days to listen to everything. Now
> here's a kicker, I've got an old Zenith console I had
> to gut but the cabinet is still good so I'm going to
> install an amp and speaker for the the iPod and bring
> the Zenith back to life.
> 
> DA
> 
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DA, you must have been reading the latest number (04) of the quarterly
hardware-hacker magazine _Make_ < http://www.makezine.com >; that's
almost exactly the project in there, though of course, the program
material could be anything you wanted, from now back to Edison cylinders.

IIRC, they also put a turntable in there for converting vinyl recordings
to digital MP3 bitstreams for the iPod.  The pushbutton assembly from
the original radio are kept, and wired to a remote for the iPod.

There's nothing new under the sun.  We just edit the memories (sometimes
for good reason.)  "A people that has no history has no past.  And no
future."  --Robert A. Heinlein (Lazarus' Long's Notebooks)

-- 
73, Phil Barnes-Roberts WA6DZS mailto:wa6dzs at arrl dot net
All else aside, RF to the other fellow's antenna is what counts.