{"id":8468,"date":"2023-09-28T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/09\/28\/a-look-at-old-radios-in-australia-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:04","slug":"a-look-at-old-radios-in-australia-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/09\/28\/a-look-at-old-radios-in-australia-video\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look at Old Radios in Australia (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RUCJa5dDYE0?si=jnGE5Btdpg7jd5oq?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;\"><b>I thought you guys would like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@vk3ye\">Peter Parker&#8217;s<\/a> latest video. And in it, Dean KK4DAS might see a clue or two for his Halli restoration\/repair project. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>What really struck me was the dial markings on the Australian radios. They seem to be mostly oriented toward the reception of Australian AM or LW broadcasters &#8212; not many exotic DX locations are marked. Australia is big! <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image_1753108994.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"459\" data-original-width=\"1003\" height=\"146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image_1753108994.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>Looks like a lot of crystal detectors in glass tubes. At first I thought they might have been coherers, but I think they are crystal detectors. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>Many variometers visible. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>I saw one Geloso-Milano Communications 8 receiver. Va bene! <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>I also saw one &#8220;Tasma 780&#8221; Superhet. Cool name! <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>What is up with the &#8220;Green Theme&#8221;? <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>I have some of the headphones they showed. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>Please note in the Comments section anything special that you noted in watching Peter&#8217;s FB video. <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>More on the coil winding machine here: <\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #222222; font-size: x-small;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2023\/08\/30\/all-mechanical-coil-winder-is-a-scrap-bin-delight\/#more-612604\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2023\/08\/30\/all-mechanical-coil-winder-is-a-scrap-bin-delight\/#more-612604<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought you guys would like Peter Parker&#8217;s latest video. And in it, Dean KK4DAS might see a clue or two for his Halli restoration\/repair project. What really struck me was the dial markings on the Australian radios. They seem to be mostly oriented toward the reception of Australian AM or LW broadcasters &#8212; not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/09\/28\/a-look-at-old-radios-in-australia-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Look at Old Radios in Australia (video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,100,36,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-old-radio","category-parker-peter","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8470,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions\/8470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}