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1959 Geekware - World in a Box - BBC, Radio Moscow, Voice of the Andes, Twins Baseball
Sold by Lafayette Radio on Liberty Avenue in "downtown" Jamaica, Queens County, New York. Built from a kit before I was 12. While most of the students were involved with sports, fighting, or stealing hubcaps me and a few of my friends were preteen turbo nerds. We would ride our bicycles the 10 miles into Jamaica and buy electronics parts. Or go to Mineola and buy surplus military equipment and take it home (still in the original wood crate) balanced on the bicycle seat. Or go into lower Manhattan (Cortlandt Street or Canal Street), load up on surplus electronics, and drag it home at rush hour in the subway and then a bus. Hated having to take a bus into downtown Hempstead every week for allergy shots until i found a surplus store near the bus terminal.
While basically an AM (amplitude modulation) receiver, it could also be coaxed to decode SSB (single side band) using the built-in BFO (beat frequency oscillator) and FM (frequency modulation) by using "slope detection".
Never got murdered - only attacked once on the way to Jamaica for going into a "candy store" that had only a few packs of gum on a card table near the entrance with a partition with lots of phones ringing in the back. Located near Belmont Park Race Track - the locals knew better than to go in. This was before legalized OTB (off track betting) - gambling on horse races was big business.
1959 Geekware - World in a Box - BBC, Radio Moscow, Voice of the Andes, Twins Baseball
Sold by Lafayette Radio on Liberty Avenue in "downtown" Jamaica, Queens County, New York. Built from a kit before I was 12. While most of the students were involved with sports, fighting, or stealing hubcaps me and a few of my friends were preteen turbo nerds. We would ride our bicycles the 10 miles into Jamaica and buy electronics parts. Or go to Mineola and buy surplus military equipment and take it home (still in the original wood crate) balanced on the bicycle seat. Or go into lower Manhattan (Cortlandt Street or Canal Street), load up on surplus electronics, and drag it home at rush hour in the subway and then a bus. Hated having to take a bus into downtown Hempstead every week for allergy shots until i found a surplus store near the bus terminal.
While basically an AM (amplitude modulation) receiver, it could also be coaxed to decode SSB (single side band) using the built-in BFO (beat frequency oscillator) and FM (frequency modulation) by using "slope detection".
Never got murdered - only attacked once on the way to Jamaica for going into a "candy store" that had only a few packs of gum on a card table near the entrance with a partition with lots of phones ringing in the back. Located near Belmont Park Race Track - the locals knew better than to go in. This was before legalized OTB (off track betting) - gambling on horse races was big business.