Actually didn't end today. Won't go into effect until sometime next year, and there are numerous law suites already pending from 17 states to block it. Not to mention angry voters sending bomb threats to their congressmen, that will likely delay it even further.
Oh man can't wait to see the philco work again :) I miss the resto vids of junk that looks like it could never work agin and you manage to get it working agin against all odds lol
Steven Carlson People are probably excited about the Philco Ford because it's early all transitorized. The same reason people like 1940's TV's and why Shango likes old color roundies, they represent new technology for their time.
Isn't net neutrality the thing Obama instituted that basically reduced internet freedom by implementing more government controls? That's like having government controlled press, which is a really bad idea. I remember the protests when Obama first implemented it, it is the opposite of a free internet. Socialist in nature rather than capitalist.
Dear Shango066, I am also a restaurer from Serbia, Europe. We had our own Yugoslav industry, so we had our own tube factory "Ei". Our radios are the same as all other European radios of that era. Fortunately all tubes except EABC80 can be changed with Soviet ones. Especially I discovered in my practice that Soviet 6N1P (6Н1П) Can be easily substituted for ECC85 in FM frontend. It is catalogued as AF tube, but it works great for FM.
Hi, I just wanted you to know that I “found” your channel for your last video and was so interested I had to subscribe. After that last video I went back watched a dozen or so of your other videos and really enjoy what you are doing. It’s really amazing to see you work on this great gear. Thanks.
Nice radio! And speaking of that, and thanks for mentioning KSWD's "The Sound". I'm not a rock fan of this station, but I'm much of an oldies fan, but I still have airchecks from the last day of "The Sound" as a classic rock station in my collection. They have songs what they liked or don't liked, but I don't followed rock stations at all. At some point, they played some rock songs that were mostly oldies, while playing heavy rock like Led Zeppelin, The Who, Rolling Stones, and so on. The last songs that played on "The Sound" are selections from side 2 of a classic Beatles album "Abbey Road", but I still have the album and it was a reissue on the Capitol label instead of Apple. And speaking of "The Sound", I heard the sad news, WGHT, a little known radio station in Pompton Lakes, NJ that plays oldies for about 24 years signed off after 2 PM where the station closed its doors with John Sillman, a midday DJ/program director at WGHT where he played a lot of great songs and finally signed off with "Dance to the Music" by Sly and the Family Stone until the station pulled the plug. What a sad way to see WGHT go. First there was "The Sound", and now WGHT. To get back to "The Sound's" demise, I started recording at 8 AM in the east coast, because the show started at 6 AM on the West Coast, and it ran until the station finally ended at 4 PM on the east, and 1 PM on the west if I'm on east coast, it was right towards sundown.
All those days listening to Joe Benson, Cynthia Fox,and all the other folks Mark Thomson !Most of those DJs coming from KMET and KLOS.And then if you're really old KPPC In Pasadena.What memories !Thanks for the videos too!
Yeah I grew up listening to vinyl that's where we got most of our music from back in the day was cringed up as loud as you passed through good tournament finals from my brother but man I miss the sound of that and just stay here again bring back so many memories
I'm glad I live near St. Louis we have the words longest running main stream rock station in the world. KSHE. Over 50 years old and still going strong and not going anywhere anytime soon.
Jerry Spann they have the 7 day on Sunday night where they play 6 complete albums. Sunday mornings they play KSHE classics. You can listen online just about anywhere.
And speaking of “The Sound”, there’s another radio station that finally bit the dust, and that was KCCL’s “K-Hits” 101.5 in Sacramento, CA, they’re gonna pull the plug and flip to a Mexican Spanish format. I got the full show in my collection and I will be posting it onto Internet Archive soon.
Quantum Leap And then, a few months later, they shut down WLUP's "The Loop" in Chicago, one of the great oldies rock stations in Chicago where it flipped to "K-Love". The last song ever played on "The Loop" was "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC. A lot of oldies fans were disappointed about the loss of this station.
That's pretty sad, I don't usually comment but I have always been jealous of American FM radio. They pulled the plug on the whole thing in Norway, people just don't care about sound quality anymore here it seems. No way in hell they would be bothered to even play vinyl since it all ends up with 64kbps AAC at the receiver anyways.
If you compare vinyl in bit rate compared to a 192k mp3 the mp3 will sound better if it recorded right. I believe if i remember correctly vinyl can hold up to 33k on peaks.
That's the consequence of having a state owned industry, someone at the top decides it's a good idea, and then it happens everywhere. Maybe you can pick up Polish radio instead?
DrSysop I would take it any day over the codec they use on digital here. I never listen to the radio anymore because of the signature noise the codec makes. It litteraly gives me a headache.
Shame to see a good station go down like that... Hopefully nothing like this happens to my favorite classic rock station. There's already enough K-Love stations here in michigan
That's very interesting. I have never heard of EMUD. Turns out that it was a German manufacturer that only produced radios for export. Didn't even know that something like this existed.
Here we do not even have FM anymore.. It has all been replaced with digital technology of the 80s called DAB and most channels are so compressed that they sound as bad as a 96kbit mp3 or worse making it completely useless for music. :(
It has been years since I listened to any radio station in the Los Angeles area, I prefer to listen to silence instead. When Dr Demento went off the air that was about the last of anything worth listening to.
Paul I remember as a young teen listening to The Dr. Demento Show on KHJ in early 1977 ! "My baby fell out of the window, I thought that her head would be split, but luck was with her that morning, and she fell in a pile of SHAVING CREAM...
You might recall 101.9 KSCA did nearly the same thing in ‘97 ... side two of Abby Road then dead air at midnight. Sad to see the Sound bite the dust and KROQ turn into a shell of its former self
That voice-over in the first few seconds after the format change was Charlie Van Dyke. He's also famous for doing all sorts of various local news intros, station promos, as well as commercials.
Great sounding radio in excellent condition!!! Love those big radios. You’ll never find new big radios Only large tailgate Bluetooth speakers with fm only! No am or shortwave bands
So many iconic stations gone. KFRC SF, WFNX Boston, Live 105 SF, KOME San Jose, KZAP Sacramento, just the ones I know about mostly from my area. Just so folks know, KZAP is back in the form of KZHP-LP and online at KZAP.org If you like classic rock and are sick of the regurgitated corporate version and like freeform check them out. I am not part of it, just a listener.
FM has been on borrowed time since analog TV dropped. Probably won't be a choice between sugar and artificial sweetener here soon.......won't take long for few to know the difference
I grew up in L.A. in the 50’s. KFWB back then was 98 on the AM dial. Some of the best DJ’s of that era were on this station, Bill Balance, Joe Yocum, Elliot Fields, just to name a few. When did this station go FM?
I remember when 100.3 was pirate radio. The first day on the air they played welcome to the jungle by guns and roses over and over for 24 hours straight.
This EMUD Radio was made in Ulm, right where I live. That's a rare one but funny thing is that they exported a lot to the USA so they might be more common over there than in Germany. Yours is definitely an export model. By the way, EMUD stands for Ernst Maestling Ulm Donau, so it's just the name of the company founder and the city where the company was located. As far as I know they went out of business somewhere in the mid 1960s. Great find and great video as always. The loss of a good rock station is always a shame, too many Top40 stations playing just the same shit over and over...and Christian music? WTF???
We went thru the same thing in chicago when Q101 shut down. Im pretty sure the reason they replace popular shut down stations with religious music is to degauss the market and have a clean path for the next eventual temporary station.
shango066 we need more pirate radio stations!!! thy play nothing good on the air. a lot of unused spectrum in the hf band it would be cool to have a hf rock station using hifi ssb 10kc wide!! it wold sound better than am short wave.
jake michael Not happening, this is not going to be another WHOT 91.5 in Brooklyn, NY where Hank Hayes & Jim Nazium with Pete Sayek was on at the time, and that was from the 1980's. There are so many pirate radio stations in the NYC area, including the best one is Brooklyn playing too much garbage like gangster rap, reggae and Caribbean music. My guess is oldies will go into a pirate station.
That philco ford color table top is going to have a great picture I watched the video where you checked the crt in it and it has a good strong tube I would use it to watch old movies and tv maybe even to play old video games on
In 2009, I serviced a 5KW/Daytime, 300W/Nighttime, Continental transmitter, for a radio station in southeastern Pennsylvania. The new owner agreed to split the cost of replacing the klystron, and their pressurized Ln2 transmission cable system for the 5KW main transmitter. The 1KW CCA backup ate a tetrode array, and had modulation issues. The tower maintenance service which I used, billed $11,000.00 for the new cable installs for both transmitters. My invoicing totaled $7,200.00. The selling owner, who had been my customer since the late 1980's, paid their half ($3,600.00) within ten days, and told me that the new owner would pay their portion of the total due within thirty days, and that the indebtedness, and circumstance thereof, had been noted in the settlement. The present owner, a religious broadcaster, has 11 other stations, one 20KW, and a 100KW Shortwave station. With that inventory of stations, I had no concerns about their making good on their half of the invoice. Mid-Atlantic Tower Maintenance Corp, and I both have judgments, which we can't collect until the station is sold, because of some damned loophole added to Interstate Commerce laws regarding non-profit/educational broadcasters during the era when PBS was being conceived and built. I also understand that the original owner is owed damn near $15K, for a second, and brand-new 30KW Onan Industrial propane/natural gas backup generator which was not included on the asset transfer schedule, as he was going to relocate it to his rural home, but did not after the new owner signed a separate agreement to purchase it on installments. I hope that the transferring owners of KSWD, fare better than we did....
Hi Shango excuse my user name it is only a joke between some friends and I which never got changed. In the video you said about the fmst indicator blip on the stations close down. I believe that it was a brief reset for the new stations link to be connected, but enough of my ramblings. Keep up the good work your videos are always great. J.D from UK
I've been using a 1960's Emud console stereo for tv stand for several years, I route the tv audio out to the reel to reel input jack and it sounds great. But it uses hard to find ell80 output tubes.
8:53, 10:04 BEATLES ALERT!!!!! Please report to "BuddyBoy600alt", he has a message for you for those of you have remember KSWD's "The Sound" departure as a rock station playing a Beatles, and this goes for you. You should be very careful if you do post a music clip of any Beatles song from "Abbey Road", you will end up getting blocked and in result of a copyright strike. You know who owns it? UMG_MK.
Seems Real Music Radio is being killed off in the US just like in the UK where I am. Daytime Music Radio in my country now is Corporate Computer Generated Dross glad I still have the BBC.
I was tuned in when The Sound closed down. Sad moment indeed, but EMF, which bought the station from Entercom, wanted desperately a full power signal in Market #2 (LA) and Entercom had to divest one of their signals when they absorbed CBS. That K-Love network is nationwide, and EMF owns every station & translator it's heard on. Anyhow, I noticed that was a modern factory stereo unit you used for recording the sign-off. No more patrolling SoCal in older Ford's for Shango? Have a nice holiday there and thanks for another year of entertaining vids. Take care.
And speaking of “The Sound”, it happened last night when WPLJ in New York City ended its format after 48 years. It became “K-Love”. That was 2 years after “The Sound” ended.
I see that you got a Sirius sat radio receiver in your Car. Have a question to you du you use the sat tuner often and are you happy whith your radio tuner in your Car. Keep up the good work that you are doing here on you tube.
Well they couldn't have been too great of a Classic Rock Channel if they cut off "Her Majesty"..... Here in Charlotte, we had an oldies channel back in the 90's that was BELOVED I mean everybody listened to it... I was listening to it one day around 2005 or so, and they said "Hear all about the exciting changes at Magic 96.1 coming up at Noon!" so at Noon I listened, and they just immediately changed it into a Rap channel at noon. We're still pissed.
Is K-Earth 101 still Classic Rock / Classic Hits? I bet when the Christian station fails, it will be another Hip Hop station. There is only 92.3, 93.5, 99.1, 102.3, 104.7, 105.9, so the market is underserved.
I have nothing against Christianity, but how much of a market is there for a Christian rock station anywhere, even in the Southern U.S? I read that Entercom has to divest itself of 13 stations in various markets, either by selling them outright or trading them, as a condition.
That ST ending was painful. I dont want to bash religion but the ending is kinda fitting for an economy of entitled brokenness. May the... oh I can't even say it.
That's that "might not make it" song. It's about taking too many drugs with the ho's at a party and they might not make it. Right up there in the human achievements such as discovery of Penicillin, moon landings and 3 phase electricity.
"We're up all night to get lucky We're up all night to get lucky We're up all night to get lucky We're up all night to get lucky We're up all night to get lucky"... Rinse, repeat.
I like how some (insert insult here) says "hallelujah " when that rock station goes off. Like they won some battle against the "evil rock and roll"... Christians make me sick to my stomach sometimes.. Just saying..
Shango, that is crazy, CBS did the same thing with a classic rock station we had, they played really great music here in Chicago, CBS sold it to Entercom and now it is a classic rap station. For me I had no idea it happened, I got off work early in the morning, started my car, and it was rap. It was sad, but thankfully Chicago has a lot of other classic rock stations, but they did have a good variety on the one they closed down.
PISS ON WLUP (da loop) and there 50 song repetitive playlist.WIIL (will rock)95.1 only good rock station around the shitcago area.Also transmits at 107.9 HD 2 from Aroura IL.The HD signal comes in quite well here in northwest Indiana
Really sad to see stations that have been around for years change the format or like we have one that we grew up and listen to me in the Saint Louis Casey 95 and the season Go from Classic Rock to new wave I'm punk and just a little Plastic wrap was a Big CHANGE for us I was very disappointed
You guys have a wide variety of radios over there. here its a lots of boring pop stations and a few classic stations that only play the same songs and sometimes modern as well. its very sad.
It's a similar deal in the UK, I'm lucky to be just within reach (more so on decent analogue tuners than digitised) of 106.1, formerly Planet Rock now renamed XS Manchester & they play the best stuff on FM, MW/LW pretty much dead over here and DAB has a couple of reasonable rock efforts but for the most part it's a case of looking up online whatever tune I happen to be feeling at the time. I work pretty much radio-free now because there's nothing all-day listenable any more :(
Sad to see another station converted to K-Love... In my area there was one major CBS O&O KDKA 1020, the station engineer posted on Facebook that for the FIRST time in 97 years KDKA radio would not be owned by some vestige of Westinghouse. It has been a News/Talk station since the mid 90'sso the format will probably not change, although with Entercom's record, who knows if they will make it to 100 years on the air.
Great videos been watching and subscribed , I have a Bush DAC 90a radio working very well (bought it like that) but I've just been given another , that looks like a right basket case , have you ever done a dac 90 , as I can't find I video on one , perhaps not as common as in the UK
I have wondered why local stations with the callsigns WJLS weren't required to switch to a different callsign when they translated the AM signal. Now we have 2 WJLS's on FM broadcasting two different formats. They recently switched from gospel to a news talk format on the AM. I'm sure some are upset because many local churches and individuals went of the air.
There is one of the bad boys sitting on the counter at my local pizza joint. Not sure if it works. they have lots of old junk decorating the walls. I would love to have one. When were these made?
not too much entertainment includes the phrase: "feces-filled extravaganza," that being said, mud and rodent excrement just adds to the robust nature of these challenging resurrection videos.
that is what is wrong with the world today they get rid of all the great stuff and replace it with garbage and useless crap . horrible radio stations take over from the great oldies stations like wcbs fm 101.1 and many others and it is a real shame that they cant leave what works alone and they have to put crap on and make life worse . well we do not have to listen but it is relally not good . the same with electronics . but thank god for records to keep and listen to .
It's a miniature seven pin version of a 1LA6, which is a $3-$6 tube, half the time you can swap one out for a 1R5 with a slight wiring change. Mind you the 1R5 sometimes doesn't want to work at higher frequencies, but some sets that used 1L6s were AM broadcast only sets that don't need them.
Station KSWD-Los Angeles goes off the air, goodbye worthwhile programming - dead air - Station KKLQ-Los Angeles comes on the air, quality programming out the window, replaced by religious SHIT!
I thought the Philco Ford was an EMUD! Looking forward to that on Monday as it looks a really complicated set. We've lost quite a lot of good independent stations here in my part of the UK, they have been bought up by big corporations and just turned into generic crap now all pumping out the same stuff from one central location
Speaker Sex Smooth is ok but we had Gold on that AM frequency beforehand and I preferred it, but hey it's better than nothing I suppose. I mostly listen to planet rock on DAB now if I'm in the workshop
ECC85/6AQ8 prices seem to be all over the place, maybe some vendors don't understand the difference between an ECC83 and an ECC85, or assume that whoever buys them, won't realize that it's an FM mixer oscillator tube and not an audio tube. But then again I see fleabay sellers trying to sell rectifier tubes as "matched pairs" or two tubes of completely different makes as matches pairs, just like everything is art deco and Eames Era too.
Thanks for sharing. A sad moment for sure. On a side note, on one video I saw you listening to 435. Do you attend "Burning Ham"? I'm a slight user of one of the "other" repeater groups that attend.
A timely appropriate video with the FCC ending net neutrality today.
Actually didn't end today. Won't go into effect until sometime next year, and there are numerous law suites already pending from 17 states to block it. Not to mention angry voters sending bomb threats to their congressmen, that will likely delay it even further.
Oh man can't wait to see the philco work again :) I miss the resto vids of junk that looks like it could never work agin and you manage to get it working agin against all odds lol
Steven Carlson
People are probably excited about the Philco Ford because it's early all transitorized. The same reason people like 1940's TV's and why Shango likes old color roundies, they represent new technology for their time.
Gregory Malchuk yup that's what I like about it too :)
Isn't net neutrality the thing Obama instituted that basically reduced internet freedom by implementing more government controls? That's like having government controlled press, which is a really bad idea. I remember the protests when Obama first implemented it, it is the opposite of a free internet. Socialist in nature rather than capitalist.
Dear Shango066, I am also a restaurer from Serbia, Europe. We had our own Yugoslav industry, so we had our own tube factory "Ei". Our radios are the same as all other European radios of that era. Fortunately all tubes except EABC80 can be changed with Soviet ones. Especially I discovered in my practice that Soviet 6N1P (6Н1П) Can be easily substituted for ECC85 in FM frontend. It is catalogued as AF tube, but it works great for FM.
Hi, I just wanted you to know that I “found” your channel for your last video and was so interested I had to subscribe. After that last video I went back watched a dozen or so of your other videos and really enjoy what you are doing. It’s really amazing to see you work on this great gear. Thanks.
A time-honored classic rock station being replaced by Christian rock---I personally find the classic rock station to be more sacred, pun intended.
Nice radio! And speaking of that, and thanks for mentioning KSWD's "The Sound". I'm not a rock fan of this station, but I'm much of an oldies fan, but I still have airchecks from the last day of "The Sound" as a classic rock station in my collection. They have songs what they liked or don't liked, but I don't followed rock stations at all. At some point, they played some rock songs that were mostly oldies, while playing heavy rock like Led Zeppelin, The Who, Rolling Stones, and so on. The last songs that played on "The Sound" are selections from side 2 of a classic Beatles album "Abbey Road", but I still have the album and it was a reissue on the Capitol label instead of Apple.
And speaking of "The Sound", I heard the sad news, WGHT, a little known radio station in Pompton Lakes, NJ that plays oldies for about 24 years signed off after 2 PM where the station closed its doors with John Sillman, a midday DJ/program director at WGHT where he played a lot of great songs and finally signed off with "Dance to the Music" by Sly and the Family Stone until the station pulled the plug. What a sad way to see WGHT go. First there was "The Sound", and now WGHT.
To get back to "The Sound's" demise, I started recording at 8 AM in the east coast, because the show started at 6 AM on the West Coast, and it ran until the station finally ended at 4 PM on the east, and 1 PM on the west if I'm on east coast, it was right towards sundown.
All those days listening to Joe Benson, Cynthia Fox,and all the other folks Mark Thomson !Most of those DJs coming from KMET and KLOS.And then if you're really old KPPC In Pasadena.What memories !Thanks for the videos too!
Yeah I grew up listening to vinyl that's where we got most of our music from back in the day was cringed up as loud as you passed through good tournament finals from my brother but man I miss the sound of that and just stay here again bring back so many memories
Can't wait for the filthco ford video!
Philthco Phord
I'm glad I live near St. Louis we have the words longest running main stream rock station in the world. KSHE. Over 50 years old and still going strong and not going anywhere anytime soon.
Matthew Best kshe 95!!! Do they still play 3 complete albums on Saturday nights?
Jerry Spann they have the 7 day on Sunday night where they play 6 complete albums. Sunday mornings they play KSHE classics. You can listen online just about anywhere.
And speaking of “The Sound”, there’s another radio station that finally bit the dust, and that was KCCL’s “K-Hits” 101.5 in Sacramento, CA, they’re gonna pull the plug and flip to a Mexican Spanish format. I got the full show in my collection and I will be posting it onto Internet Archive soon.
And now, WCBS “Newsradio 88” has officially pulled the plug after 57 years on 880 AM in New York City. The station is now ESPN Radio.
Don't know what it is but your clever humor, interesting topics... whatever is very addictive. Thanks for making these videos... huge fan!
So sad to see the death of a great, vinyl based oldies rock radio station. Sniff....
yeah, and for a format with no listeners :(
Quantum Leap And then, a few months later, they shut down WLUP's "The Loop" in Chicago, one of the great oldies rock stations in Chicago where it flipped to "K-Love". The last song ever played on "The Loop" was "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC. A lot of oldies fans were disappointed about the loss of this station.
And now, WPLJ is going to be no more this Friday. One of the most iconic radio stations in New York City for 48 years is going away.
That was cool, sad at the same time
I was born in 1962, And I am so lucky that I can say that Things were so much better back then, then they are now.
IMO it's sad and it stinks! Thanks for sharing this moment!
That's pretty sad, I don't usually comment but I have always been jealous of American FM radio. They pulled the plug on the whole thing in Norway, people just don't care about sound quality anymore here it seems. No way in hell they would be bothered to even play vinyl since it all ends up with 64kbps AAC at the receiver anyways.
Fox McCloud - It is sad as not hardly any radio stations play vinyl anymore. I reckon vinyl is the best sound ever.
If you compare vinyl in bit rate compared to a 192k mp3 the mp3 will sound better if it recorded right. I believe if i remember correctly vinyl can hold up to 33k on peaks.
That's the consequence of having a state owned industry, someone at the top decides it's a good idea, and then it happens everywhere. Maybe you can pick up Polish radio instead?
OlegKostoglatov Nope, complete silence in my area. I get Sweden when the conditions are good tho.
DrSysop I would take it any day over the codec they use on digital here. I never listen to the radio anymore because of the signature noise the codec makes. It litteraly gives me a headache.
Shame to see a good station go down like that... Hopefully nothing like this happens to my favorite classic rock station. There's already enough K-Love stations here in michigan
That's very interesting. I have never heard of EMUD. Turns out that it was a German manufacturer that only produced radios for export. Didn't even know that something like this existed.
Here we do not even have FM anymore.. It has all been replaced with digital technology of the 80s called DAB and most channels are so compressed that they sound as bad as a 96kbit mp3 or worse making it completely useless for music. :(
It has been years since I listened to any radio station in the Los Angeles area, I prefer to listen to silence instead. When Dr Demento went off the air that was about the last of anything worth listening to.
Paul
I remember as a young teen listening to The Dr. Demento Show on
KHJ in early 1977 ! "My baby fell out of the window, I thought that her head would be split, but luck was with her that morning, and she fell in a pile of SHAVING CREAM...
You might recall 101.9 KSCA did nearly the same thing in ‘97 ... side two of Abby Road then dead air at midnight.
Sad to see the Sound bite the dust and KROQ turn into a shell of its former self
When KMET 94.7 signed off to become KWAV "the wave" they also ended with Abbey Road side 2.
Steve Reeves Same thing happened with KSWD's "The Sound" about 30+ years later. Same thing.
The birds love your voice. That were and still are great quality radio's.
That radio is huge! Didn't notice until you started tuning it in lol
Das ist ein gut klingendes Radio.
That voice-over in the first few seconds after the format change was Charlie Van Dyke. He's also famous for doing all sorts of various local news intros, station promos, as well as commercials.
Those noisy birds would make a tasty tidbit for your cat
Great sounding radio in excellent condition!!! Love those big radios. You’ll never find new big radios Only large tailgate Bluetooth speakers with fm only! No am or shortwave bands
So many iconic stations gone. KFRC SF, WFNX Boston, Live 105 SF, KOME San Jose, KZAP Sacramento, just the ones I know about mostly from my area. Just so folks know, KZAP is back in the form of KZHP-LP and online at KZAP.org If you like classic rock and are sick of the regurgitated corporate version and like freeform check them out. I am not part of it, just a listener.
The last hour of 100.3 is now up on the Internet Archive.
We just lost a big station called WBRU here in Rhode Island. They played alternative rock and all. Very good station and was sad to see it go.
FM has been on borrowed time since analog TV dropped. Probably won't be a choice between sugar and artificial sweetener here soon.......won't take long for few to know the difference
Es una reliquia ese radio.
I grew up in L.A. in the 50’s. KFWB back then was 98 on the AM dial. Some of the best DJ’s of that era were on this station, Bill Balance, Joe Yocum, Elliot Fields, just to name a few. When did this station go FM?
The only person that would want to listen to Christian rock is Ned Flanders
And in the end, the love you make, is equal to the love....you take.
I remember when 100.3 was pirate radio. The first day on the air they played welcome to the jungle by guns and roses over and over for 24 hours straight.
This EMUD Radio was made in Ulm, right where I live. That's a rare one but funny thing is that they exported a lot to the USA so they might be more common over there than in Germany. Yours is definitely an export model. By the way, EMUD stands for Ernst Maestling Ulm Donau, so it's just the name of the company founder and the city where the company was located. As far as I know they went out of business somewhere in the mid 1960s. Great find and great video as always. The loss of a good rock station is always a shame, too many Top40 stations playing just the same shit over and over...and Christian music? WTF???
i have one like it but made by AJA ELECTRONICS #5842 MULTI-BAND TUBE RADIO plays great got it off ebay
that radio sounds pretty good!
We went thru the same thing in chicago when Q101 shut down. Im pretty sure the reason they replace popular shut down stations with religious music is to degauss the market and have a clean path for the next eventual temporary station.
at least it isn't RAB music
now CCM mariachi music for hispanic Catholics in L.A., aye yi yi
The EMUD works OK with a bulb missing from the socket, as seen at the bottom right at 2:23 ??
What's the chances of UA-cam detecting five seconds of Madness - Our House and ending up with copyright strike?
Shango you are lucky to have the chance to work with such great old tech! I am jealous!
I love to have that radio
shango066 we need more pirate radio stations!!! thy play nothing good on the air. a lot of unused spectrum in the hf band it would be cool to have a hf rock station using hifi ssb 10kc wide!! it wold sound better than am short wave.
jake michael Not happening, this is not going to be another WHOT 91.5 in Brooklyn, NY where Hank Hayes & Jim Nazium with Pete Sayek was on at the time, and that was from the 1980's. There are so many pirate radio stations in the NYC area, including the best one is Brooklyn playing too much garbage like gangster rap, reggae and Caribbean music. My guess is oldies will go into a pirate station.
That philco ford color table top is going to have a great picture I watched the video where you checked the crt in it and it has a good strong tube
I would use it to watch old movies and tv maybe even to play old video games on
In 2009, I serviced a 5KW/Daytime, 300W/Nighttime, Continental transmitter, for a radio station in southeastern Pennsylvania. The new owner agreed to split the cost of replacing the klystron, and their pressurized Ln2 transmission cable system for the 5KW main transmitter. The 1KW CCA backup ate a tetrode array, and had modulation issues. The tower maintenance service which I used, billed $11,000.00 for the new cable installs for both transmitters. My invoicing totaled $7,200.00.
The selling owner, who had been my customer since the late 1980's, paid their half ($3,600.00) within ten days, and told me that the new owner would pay their portion of the total due within thirty days, and that the indebtedness, and circumstance thereof, had been noted in the settlement.
The present owner, a religious broadcaster, has 11 other stations, one 20KW, and a 100KW Shortwave station. With that inventory of stations, I had no concerns about their making good on their half of the invoice.
Mid-Atlantic Tower Maintenance Corp, and I both have judgments, which we can't collect until the station is sold, because of some damned loophole added to Interstate Commerce laws regarding non-profit/educational broadcasters during the era when PBS was being conceived and built. I also understand that the original owner is owed damn near $15K, for a second, and brand-new 30KW Onan Industrial propane/natural gas backup generator which was not included on the asset transfer schedule, as he was going to relocate it to his rural home, but did not after the new owner signed a separate agreement to purchase it on installments.
I hope that the transferring owners of KSWD, fare better than we did....
3:45, “Might Not” by The Weeknd.
Hi Shango excuse my user name it is only a joke between some friends and I which never got changed. In the video you said about the fmst indicator blip on the stations close down. I believe that it was a brief reset for the new stations link to be connected, but enough of my ramblings. Keep up the good work your videos are always great. J.D from UK
I've been using a 1960's Emud console stereo for tv stand for several years, I route the tv audio out to the reel to reel input jack and it sounds great. But it uses hard to find ell80 output tubes.
8:53, 10:04 BEATLES ALERT!!!!!
Please report to "BuddyBoy600alt", he has a message for you for those of you have remember KSWD's "The Sound" departure as a rock station playing a Beatles, and this goes for you. You should be very careful if you do post a music clip of any Beatles song from "Abbey Road", you will end up getting blocked and in result of a copyright strike. You know who owns it? UMG_MK.
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As long as shango was playing it for educational and historical purposes there is FAIR USE policy. It's law too, in the USA.
Best sounding radio ive ever heard
Seems Real Music Radio is being killed off in the US just like in the UK where I am. Daytime Music Radio in my country now is Corporate Computer Generated Dross glad I still have the BBC.
I was tuned in when The Sound closed down. Sad moment indeed, but EMF, which bought the station from Entercom, wanted desperately a full power signal in Market #2 (LA) and Entercom had to divest one of their signals when they absorbed CBS. That K-Love network is nationwide, and EMF owns every station & translator it's heard on. Anyhow, I noticed that was a modern factory stereo unit you used for recording the sign-off. No more patrolling SoCal in older Ford's for Shango? Have a nice holiday there and thanks for another year of entertaining vids. Take care.
And speaking of “The Sound”, it happened last night when WPLJ in New York City ended its format after 48 years. It became “K-Love”. That was 2 years after “The Sound” ended.
Philthy Feces Filled Philco.
Don't mind those birds at all, they are nice to listen to.
If it is german, why is the music coming through in English? Is the transistor broken?
It dose have very impressive sound for its age
That's a very nice radio. Great sound.
She's so sad and crying but her phone is so important it's in her hand the whole time.
I see that you got a Sirius sat radio receiver in your Car. Have a question to you du you use the sat tuner often and are you happy whith your radio tuner in your Car. Keep up the good work that you are doing here on you tube.
Well they couldn't have been too great of a Classic Rock Channel if they cut off "Her Majesty".....
Here in Charlotte, we had an oldies channel back in the 90's that was BELOVED I mean everybody listened to it... I was listening to it one day around 2005 or so, and they said "Hear all about the exciting changes at Magic 96.1 coming up at Noon!" so at Noon I listened, and they just immediately changed it into a Rap channel at noon. We're still pissed.
The Abbey Road “Golden Slumbers” side, one of the top 5 best album sides in history .. “Here Goes the Sun” …
Here *Comes* The Sun
Is K-Earth 101 still Classic Rock / Classic Hits?
I bet when the Christian station fails, it will be another Hip Hop station. There is only 92.3, 93.5, 99.1, 102.3, 104.7, 105.9, so the market is underserved.
I have nothing against Christianity, but how much of a market is there for a Christian rock station anywhere, even in the Southern U.S? I read that Entercom has to divest itself of 13 stations in various markets, either by selling them outright or trading them, as a condition.
Educational Media Foundation is a non-profit; however, non-profit does not mean "non-money." EMF paid $57.75 million for KSWD plus two other stations.
That ST ending was painful. I dont want to bash religion but the ending is kinda fitting for an economy of entitled brokenness. May the... oh I can't even say it.
What’s with the modern music and the repetition of the same line over and over again like at 4:00? Music is so screwed.
That's that "might not make it" song. It's about taking too many drugs with the ho's at a party and they might not make it. Right up there in the human achievements such as discovery of Penicillin, moon landings and 3 phase electricity.
When I heard that song on the radio, my first thought was. Nope, he didnt make it. "changes station"
"We're up all night to get lucky
We're up all night to get lucky
We're up all night to get lucky
We're up all night to get lucky
We're up all night to get lucky"...
Rinse, repeat.
LakeNipissing exactly
LakeNipissing Yep! That's the song "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams of "Happy" fame.
Good video
I like how some (insert insult here) says "hallelujah " when that rock station goes off. Like they won some battle against the "evil rock and roll"... Christians make me sick to my stomach sometimes.. Just saying..
Shango, that is crazy, CBS did the same thing with a classic rock station we had, they played really great music here in Chicago, CBS sold it to Entercom and now it is a classic rap station. For me I had no idea it happened, I got off work early in the morning, started my car, and it was rap. It was sad, but thankfully Chicago has a lot of other classic rock stations, but they did have a good variety on the one they closed down.
PISS ON WLUP (da loop) and there 50 song repetitive playlist.WIIL (will rock)95.1 only good rock station around the shitcago area.Also transmits at 107.9 HD 2 from Aroura IL.The HD signal comes in quite well here in northwest Indiana
You still have that Philco Ford? How long has it been since you found that one?
Really sad to see stations that have been around for years change the format or like we have one that we grew up and listen to me in the Saint Louis Casey 95 and the season Go from Classic Rock to new wave I'm punk and just a little Plastic wrap was a Big CHANGE for us I was very disappointed
You guys have a wide variety of radios over there. here its a lots of boring pop stations and a few classic stations that only play the same songs and sometimes modern as well. its very sad.
It's a similar deal in the UK, I'm lucky to be just within reach (more so on decent analogue tuners than digitised) of 106.1, formerly Planet Rock now renamed XS Manchester & they play the best stuff on FM, MW/LW pretty much dead over here and DAB has a couple of reasonable rock efforts but for the most part it's a case of looking up online whatever tune I happen to be feeling at the time. I work pretty much radio-free now because there's nothing all-day listenable any more :(
really glad you are doing the mud tv
I have a box full of E series tubes here in England, ECC85s go for around $7 each here.
At least you still have FM over there, in Norway there are barely stations left.
Sad to see another station converted to K-Love... In my area there was one major CBS O&O KDKA 1020, the station engineer posted on Facebook that for the FIRST time in 97 years KDKA radio would not be owned by some vestige of Westinghouse. It has been a News/Talk station since the mid 90'sso the format will probably not change, although with Entercom's record, who knows if they will make it to 100 years on the air.
Are house in the middle of the street not bad tune
Great videos been watching and subscribed , I have a Bush DAC 90a radio working very well (bought it like that) but I've just been given another , that looks like a right basket case , have you ever done a dac 90 , as I can't find I video on one , perhaps not as common as in the UK
I have wondered why local stations with the callsigns WJLS weren't required to switch to a different callsign when they translated the AM signal. Now we have 2 WJLS's on FM broadcasting two different formats. They recently switched from gospel to a news talk format on the AM. I'm sure some are upset because many local churches and individuals went of the air.
woah man, that station killing itself like that was creepy.. You got a new van? I cant wait to see the ol Phico tv run again.
Our radio stations here in Portugal suck, they play the same songs over and over every day for weeks and weeks...
There is one of the bad boys sitting on the counter at my local pizza joint. Not sure if it works. they have lots of old junk decorating the walls. I would love to have one. When were these made?
not too much entertainment includes the phrase: "feces-filled extravaganza," that being said, mud and rodent excrement just adds to the robust nature of these challenging resurrection videos.
I guess what can you say at the end. Dreams self destructing was as good as anything.
What a nice radio
that is what is wrong with the world today they get rid of all the great stuff and replace it with garbage and useless crap . horrible radio stations take over from the great oldies stations like wcbs fm 101.1 and many others and it is a real shame that they cant leave what works alone and they have to put crap on and make life worse . well we do not have to listen but it is relally not good . the same with electronics . but thank god for records to keep and listen to .
Birds like to hear your voice, dead serious.
It sounded like the di started to cry at the end:(
I have a radio like that, a Saba Freiburg 9. Theres a preamp tube in there that’s bad and it’s about $30 minimum. It’s a 6276 I think
No cat eye? Very nice radio!
Sorry to see that station go. Apparently the demand for that tube is high? Popular in guitar amps.
Made me even more sad the moment was captured on vertical iphone video.
The 1L6 used in Zenith Transoceanics goes for around $50 if you can find one.
It's a miniature seven pin version of a 1LA6, which is a $3-$6 tube, half the time you can swap one out for a 1R5 with a slight wiring change. Mind you the 1R5 sometimes doesn't want to work at higher frequencies, but some sets that used 1L6s were AM broadcast only sets that don't need them.
Station KSWD-Los Angeles goes off the air, goodbye worthwhile programming - dead air - Station KKLQ-Los Angeles comes on the air, quality programming out the window, replaced by religious SHIT!
I thought the Philco Ford was an EMUD! Looking forward to that on Monday as it looks a really complicated set. We've lost quite a lot of good independent stations here in my part of the UK, they have been bought up by big corporations and just turned into generic crap now all pumping out the same stuff from one central location
Speaker Sex Smooth is ok but we had Gold on that AM frequency beforehand and I preferred it, but hey it's better than nothing I suppose. I mostly listen to planet rock on DAB now if I'm in the workshop
Red Mercury Is Veri Rare Item 😇
ECC85/6AQ8 prices seem to be all over the place, maybe some vendors don't understand the difference between an ECC83 and an ECC85, or assume that whoever buys them, won't realize that it's an FM mixer oscillator tube and not an audio tube. But then again I see fleabay sellers trying to sell rectifier tubes as "matched pairs" or two tubes of completely different makes as matches pairs, just like everything is art deco and Eames Era too.
Shango I like this radio will you pack and ship this emud let me know 73 from Scott
Thanks for sharing. A sad moment for sure. On a side note, on one video I saw you listening to 435. Do you attend "Burning Ham"? I'm a slight user of one of the "other" repeater groups that attend.
Bob P no I haven't done anything with ham radio since the bands mellowed out.