"...tubes"
A little story about my first radio set. It was a 1942 small "Zenith". 'Made of plywood which was really new, and cool in the 40's. They made patrol boats out if it so it had to be cool. Anyway this was about 1963 or so I'm around 12. My Aunt Sybil,...aka Mum gave me her old set. Being a model kit fan,...thanks cousin Jimmy. I'm gluing crap for 60+ years, and still at it. Anyway I went at it like it was a model Spitfire. I cleaned the set. Scrapped the housing. Put a fresh varnish coat on it. Cleaned the electrics rack replaced the old tubes. They still sold radio tubes then. That, and she was in business,...with some of her 1940's tubes still working, and playing Motown, and the Beatles.
Above is a near spitting image. Thanks Aunt Sybil.
Like I said below, CB radio may survive as a medium of free expression. Also, I've read that old fashioned vacuum tubes can be made by hand using techniques that were known to medieval alchemists. So like print media, radio might live. If you have an old bullhorn, that could work too.
ReplyDeleteI'd be happy if they went back to producing radio drama, especially if it were based on Hakim's "Crowstone," or the BL novels of John Henry Mackay.
At my old station we kept the tradition of radio drama alive through the 60's to the present. A few public stations have.
ReplyDeleteAs for the tech of our likely future.
Our owners will have cutting edge multi-layered 3-d comms.
We will go back to mimeographs old office copiers even carbon copying broadsides on typewriters like the Soviet era dissidents did.
Also pirate radio on various frequencies, and formats. Video streaming when possible. Uploading hours of content in 3 second digital bursts, and the like.
Believe me the kids will know what to do.