(1982) Realistic Weatheradio 12-181 : RadioShack Tandy

Have no fear of Mother Nature raining on your picnic or if a tsunami will cut short your day of surfing when you own this Realistic Weatheradio cube. It has all the signature looks of the 70s and early 80s on it but best of all... it still works today.
00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Overview & Background
00:46 - Unboxing & Close Look at the Weatheradio Cube
07:56 - Taking Apart the Realistic Weatheradio Cube
10:39 - Testing the Weatheradio Signal
12:33 - Recap
14:03 - Vintage TV and Radio Memories Shrine
#radioshack #realistic #vintageradio #1970s #1980s

[@robertdolby]

My dad had one of these -- thanks for this! It would've been a sin *not* to have polished the woodgrain-veneer plastic.

[@VintageGamingMemories]

lol, thanks for the support on the polishing 😁. Awesome that you got a first hand experience of this via dad.

[@dioskilos]

My dad had one that looked very similar to this but it was tuned into the time frequency.

[@VintageGamingMemories]

Cool! I see what you're talking about and now I'm on the hunt for the Realistic Timekube 12-159A! Thanks!

[@Galactipod]

1:20
It's worth noting that weather radios are not by any means obsolete. The Wireless Emergency Alerts system that allows our smartphones to warn us of a hazard can fail for any number of reasons, and you can only reliably hear a tornado siren when you're outside. Redundancy is very important when it comes to this. You can get a modern NOAA Weather Radio that has SAME functionality, which will allow the radio to remain silent until it hears an alert for your area, only then activating.

[@VintageGamingMemories]

Absolutely. I live the world of redundancy and failover for a living so I'm with you! Thanks for your excellent advice in your comments. It also reminded me that I need to find my hand crank radio that I "think" is a NOAA one 😁