I must have an early deluxe version. It has the AM/FM badge (with a stylised harp) in the speaker's lower-right corner. The radio has an AFC switch just under the dial, & external antenna terminals on the left side, near the whip antenna.
Peter, is yours the same model number? The harp I believe indicates its a older model, I believe the harp was demo'd during the 60's?? I could be wrong however! ~Jack, VEG
I have one my dad used for years when working in the yard. Tuner works but doesn't move the dial. Sat after he passed for 5 years, lot of corrosion but cleaning ot up. Tough little cardboard box with leather (?) Cover.
i have the 977b that looks just like this one also have this one also the 977b i boughtin1972 one of the first things i bought when i started working love it good memories
Wait, whut....you were a kid!! :) After working on it, I like it! Wait until the last video which will be a band scan! FYI, I replied. Thanks for watching! ~Jack, VEG
I think we all are....well, most...some are way to twisted! K, thought you might have but wasn't sure if your like me and don't always get notified. Working on part II now....looking forward to yours as well! Thanks! ~Jack, VEG
I believe that's where I bought this as well...I too had to stop, to much junk, bursting at the seams! However, I would be interested in the shortwave version of this radio! ~Jack, VEG
Jack, I bought one of those new and it performed beautifully for about 15 years and then I never saw it again! I see the logic in what Doug said, BUT if you stop to think about it, when it's not plugged in, you need the battery pack in it and you also need to store the cord in that compartment at the same time! I really don't remember what I did, but I know one thing, they both don't fit into that little compartment!
Howdy Jim! Yes, I started to think about that later on as well! I really don't know how they did it! Maybe its like the building of the Pyramids, an ancient hidden and forgotten secret! :) My final video will revive your memories! ~Jack, VEG
Thanks! Was just being dorky, late and I was tired...low oxygen! Glad you caught the music :) Editing part 2 now, sow hopefully later today or tomorrow it will be posted. ~Jack, VEG
I like yours, its kewl! I'm sure yours would wake up as good as this did! You'll enjoy the last video in this series! If you ever find the walkys, send this with them, I'll see what I can do if you like...again, no guarantees ~Jack, VEG
I hope to get in there this weekend? So much to do around here, the dungeon and work bench area, Cousin Eddy's backyard camp ground and campers, and more, goin' slooooowly at a snail's pace.
Blues singer, that's who, lol. But then I like blues...Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, 'Keb 'Mo, etc. etc. I think Doug has a radio very similar to that one. Never had one of those little sets like that unless you count those AM only pocket radios that Radio Shack had back in the 70's. I don't remember that particular Clinton song but I do remember one by Weird Al called My DNA, LOL! Wonder if a little wd-40 would loosen up that cement grease? Take care, Gary
Hey somebody new! Very cool! I too am a big blues fan! Back in the 80's, I had a friend who was a music producer, brought me into his world and I worked as a sound man, stage / personal security, rode and just about anything else that was needed....he was big into the blues scene and I got to work with a lot of folks, Muddy Waters being one of them, he was a super duper cool guy! I have been a fan of the blues ever since! I was interview with BB Kings niece (forget her name), she invited me to his birthday party one year and I totally forgot about (busy working) it until later, been kicking myself ever since! I have several BC songs, that was the safest to play...without getting to rude....don't remember the DNA song, I'll have to see if I have it and listen to it! Those little pocket radios can be awesome! I remember having a few back in the 70's, it picked up my fav radio station and I was happy! As you know, most songs back then were pure gold flowing out of the speakers! :) ~Jack, VEG
Sorry I'm so late getting back to comments. UA-cam has stopped notifying me when I have replies to comments I have made for some reason. It only shows comments on my own videos. So, I have to look up the history of videos I've watched and see if there are any replies that way, which is how I found this one just now, lol. How cool that you got to meet those folks! I got into blues in my late 20's early 30's. I had moved back home to west Tennessee and found a store that had thousands of vinyl albums for a dollar each. The first album I bought there was BB King's Live at Cook County Jail, LOL! Back then I had one of those long console radios with a record changer on one end an an 8 track on the other. I had bought this funky little adapter that I could put cassettes in and then put the adapter into the 8 track player. I had a huge L shaped front porch and in the Summer that big console sat on the porch and I'd sit there listening to albums all day. Wasn't worried about anyone stealing it, they couldn't give those things away back then. That and I lived out in the sticks in a house that had been empty for about ten years since the previous owner had died there. Rented it from her son for 25 dollars a month. That house was something else again. It had been built in 1850 and while many years ago they used to white wash it, it had never been painted so all the clapboards were just dull gray wood. Under the porch roof the walls and window frames still had hints of whitewash. The roof was rusty tin that had been there since my Grandmother had first saw the place back in the '30's but under that in the attic it still had it's original cedar shingle roof. 4 rooms in a sort of S shape. It only was wired for 110 and only had one outlet and one porcelain ceiling fixture in each room. It had no indoor plumbing so my "facilities" were an outhouse a good ways behind the place. It only had a double fireplace for heat and the walls had no insulation at all. The first Winter there was rough. I once awoke after a blowing snowfall to find little lines of snow atop my bedcovers where it had blown in through the cracks in the walls. The well house did have an electric pump and holding tank so I was lucky there. I rigged up a shower with a garden hose out behind the house. That was fine in Summer, but in Winter I had to bathe in a washtub sat in front of one of the fireplaces, which doubled as my "washing machine" when it wasn't being a bathtub. It was very primitive there but I'm glad I lived it because it gave me a great idea like no other of how my Grandparents had grown up out there. And when they told me stories of their youth I could say with certainty that I knew exactly what it was like. :)
Did you use some extra-thin 1/4" or 5/16" socket to remove the access cover? Those little Tinnerman nuts are down in a tight area and I'm still trying to get mine open so I can shoot some contact cleaner into the volume rheostat.
I must have an early deluxe version. It has the AM/FM badge (with a stylised harp) in the speaker's lower-right corner. The radio has an AFC switch just under the dial, & external antenna terminals on the left side, near the whip antenna.
Peter, is yours the same model number? The harp I believe indicates its a older model, I believe the harp was demo'd during the 60's?? I could be wrong however! ~Jack, VEG
I love this radio!👏🏼
I have one my dad used for years when working in the yard. Tuner works but doesn't move the dial. Sat after he passed for 5 years, lot of corrosion but cleaning ot up. Tough little cardboard box with leather (?) Cover.
i have the 977b that looks just like this one also have this one also the 977b i boughtin1972 one of the first things i bought when i started working love it good memories
also pick up a am shortwave radio works
Thanks for posting! Nice little radio. I had a similiar radio a long time ago--when I was a kid.
Wait, whut....you were a kid!! :) After working on it, I like it! Wait until the last video which will be a band scan! FYI, I replied. Thanks for watching! ~Jack, VEG
Sir, I am still a kid! Also, I got the message. Thanks for writing! I look forward to your next video.
I think we all are....well, most...some are way to twisted! K, thought you might have but wasn't sure if your like me and don't always get notified. Working on part II now....looking forward to yours as well! Thanks! ~Jack, VEG
Wow, it is in awesome shape. Very nice radio.
Thank you Stan, it really is and cleaned up really nice, you'll see that in the last video of the series! ~Jack, VEG
nice old radios, See some in thrift stores every so often but dont buy, even if cheap,, I have too many now
I believe that's where I bought this as well...I too had to stop, to much junk, bursting at the seams! However, I would be interested in the shortwave version of this radio! ~Jack, VEG
Jack,
I bought one of those new and it performed beautifully for about 15 years and then I never saw it again! I see the logic in what Doug said, BUT if you stop to think about it, when it's not plugged in, you need the battery pack in it and you also need to store the cord in that compartment at the same time! I really don't remember what I did, but I know one thing, they both don't fit into that little compartment!
Howdy Jim! Yes, I started to think about that later on as well! I really don't know how they did it! Maybe its like the building of the Pyramids, an ancient hidden and forgotten secret! :) My final video will revive your memories! ~Jack, VEG
Nice one Jack. You're cracking me up big time in this video with the music and comments. Too funny! Looking forward to part 2!
Thanks! Was just being dorky, late and I was tired...low oxygen! Glad you caught the music :) Editing part 2 now, sow hopefully later today or tomorrow it will be posted. ~Jack, VEG
kewl GE, mine is the Mariner SW version. mine is like Doog's, battery only.
pretty nice brick, does OK as is. whatever is is?
I like yours, its kewl! I'm sure yours would wake up as good as this did! You'll enjoy the last video in this series! If you ever find the walkys, send this with them, I'll see what I can do if you like...again, no guarantees ~Jack, VEG
I hope to get in there this weekend?
So much to do around here, the dungeon and work bench area,
Cousin Eddy's backyard camp ground and campers,
and more, goin' slooooowly at a snail's pace.
Blues singer, that's who, lol. But then I like blues...Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, 'Keb 'Mo, etc. etc. I think Doug has a radio very similar to that one. Never had one of those little sets like that unless you count those AM only pocket radios that Radio Shack had back in the 70's. I don't remember that particular Clinton song but I do remember one by Weird Al called My DNA, LOL! Wonder if a little wd-40 would loosen up that cement grease? Take care, Gary
Hey somebody new! Very cool! I too am a big blues fan! Back in the 80's, I had a friend who was a music producer, brought me into his world and I worked as a sound man, stage / personal security, rode and just about anything else that was needed....he was big into the blues scene and I got to work with a lot of folks, Muddy Waters being one of them, he was a super duper cool guy! I have been a fan of the blues ever since! I was interview with BB Kings niece (forget her name), she invited me to his birthday party one year and I totally forgot about (busy working) it until later, been kicking myself ever since!
I have several BC songs, that was the safest to play...without getting to rude....don't remember the DNA song, I'll have to see if I have it and listen to it! Those little pocket radios can be awesome! I remember having a few back in the 70's, it picked up my fav radio station and I was happy! As you know, most songs back then were pure gold flowing out of the speakers! :) ~Jack, VEG
Sorry I'm so late getting back to comments. UA-cam has stopped notifying me when I have replies to comments I have made for some reason. It only shows comments on my own videos. So, I have to look up the history of videos I've watched and see if there are any replies that way, which is how I found this one just now, lol. How cool that you got to meet those folks! I got into blues in my late 20's early 30's. I had moved back home to west Tennessee and found a store that had thousands of vinyl albums for a dollar each. The first album I bought there was BB King's Live at Cook County Jail, LOL! Back then I had one of those long console radios with a record changer on one end an an 8 track on the other. I had bought this funky little adapter that I could put cassettes in and then put the adapter into the 8 track player. I had a huge L shaped front porch and in the Summer that big console sat on the porch and I'd sit there listening to albums all day. Wasn't worried about anyone stealing it, they couldn't give those things away back then. That and I lived out in the sticks in a house that had been empty for about ten years since the previous owner had died there. Rented it from her son for 25 dollars a month.
That house was something else again. It had been built in 1850 and while many years ago they used to white wash it, it had never been painted so all the clapboards were just dull gray wood. Under the porch roof the walls and window frames still had hints of whitewash. The roof was rusty tin that had been there since my Grandmother had first saw the place back in the '30's but under that in the attic it still had it's original cedar shingle roof. 4 rooms in a sort of S shape. It only was wired for 110 and only had one outlet and one porcelain ceiling fixture in each room. It had no indoor plumbing so my "facilities" were an outhouse a good ways behind the place. It only had a double fireplace for heat and the walls had no insulation at all. The first Winter there was rough. I once awoke after a blowing snowfall to find little lines of snow atop my bedcovers where it had blown in through the cracks in the walls. The well house did have an electric pump and holding tank so I was lucky there. I rigged up a shower with a garden hose out behind the house. That was fine in Summer, but in Winter I had to bathe in a washtub sat in front of one of the fireplaces, which doubled as my "washing machine" when it wasn't being a bathtub. It was very primitive there but I'm glad I lived it because it gave me a great idea like no other of how my Grandparents had grown up out there. And when they told me stories of their youth I could say with certainty that I knew exactly what it was like. :)
The old cardboard box with a radio inside.
I have one like that with marine band.
I'll try to find it so I can share the model number and stuff.
Did you use some extra-thin 1/4" or 5/16" socket to remove the access cover? Those little Tinnerman nuts are down in a tight area and I'm still trying to get mine open so I can shoot some contact cleaner into the volume rheostat.
I had this model radio when it was new in the late 1960s.
The big AFC letters are a lie. This radio's FM tuner does NOT have AFC.
I had this radio in college! Are you selling it?