I agree these antique gems may become unable to use. as a new comer to radios ive noticed 1 oldies station which i love but weekends it plays sporting events and bird watching. their no other music then spanish. all others rap or politics. some people convert these radios into ipod docs which i thinks is a sin to do.Allthough theirs big money in it. being a 14 year old i only have 10 radios and a tube record player. their is hope though... like record albums all great thing return... its too bad hat this is happening i only have 1 AM/FM radio which is a 1949 wards airline. rare to find.

:I agree these antique gems may become unable to use. as a new comer to radios ive noticed 1 oldies station which i love but weekends it plays sporting events and bird watching. their no other music then spanish. all others rap or politics. some people convert these radios into ipod docs which i thinks is a sin to do.Allthough theirs big money in it. being a 14 year old i only have 10 radios and a tube record player. their is hope though... like record albums all great thing return... its too bad hat this is happening i only have 1 AM/FM radio which is a 1949 wards airline. rare to find.
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Seth, you could always build an AM transmitter and hook it up to your computer. I built a SSTrans, transmitter that will over come the digital revolution. Plus there is a great real oldies station that plays music from the 1920's/30's. It is called "radiodismuke.com". There is nothing like listening to the music that played through the old radios when they where new. George T

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:Seth, you could always build an AM transmitter and hook it up to your computer. I built a SSTrans, transmitter that will over come the digital revolution. Plus there is a great real oldies station that plays music from the 1920's/30's. It is called "radiodismuke.com". There is nothing like listening to the music that played through the old radios when they where new. George T
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how hard would that be to build that sounds like a great idea?

Hi Seth,
Welcome to the club!
Schematics are around. I recall they use a 6AS7.

Several years ago I got two baby monitors from the 1950's. They showed up on eBay and no one else wanted them. Like all electronics from the 1950's, the filters were shot. After re-capping they both worked.

It turns out that the way they worked was that they took audio and transmitted it over Standard Broadcast around 1400KHz.
Audio quality was quite poor, though. It gives a cheap and fun way of getting audio on a radio.

All the Best,

Bill
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::Seth, you could always build an AM transmitter and hook it up to your computer. I built a SSTrans, transmitter that will over come the digital revolution. Plus there is a great real oldies station that plays music from the 1920's/30's. It is called "radiodismuke.com". There is nothing like listening to the music that played through the old radios when they where new. George T
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Hello Seth
No need to build a transmitter if you can find a signal generator, which is test equipment. Mine is a Heathkit SG-8, never was an expensive unit, they can be had working for $20 or so.
It has an external input jack for CD player or iPod or computer input. I boost the digital signal with a little step-up transformer. Then on the output side, you hang a 6 foot wire. The generator can be tuned to a frequency that is in the AM band and there you go, transmitting your music on AM.
It's all out there on the net. The Ohio edu site was where I got this from, already had the SG-8, and Phil's old radio website is full of great info. Check out his TV's too.

http://www.ohio.edu/people/postr/bapix/heath_sg.htm

http://antiqueradio.org/iPodAdaptor.htm
http://antiqueradio.org/eico01.htm

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