A few radio devices normally scattered about the house but bunched up for the photo.
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A few radio devices normally scattered about the house but bunched up for the photo.
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Ubuntu Touch OS
Sailfish OS
Tizen
pls try and see if it works on your devices
Oh yes. Great functionality there. :p
How time has changed. And to think, at one time, we use to get up from our seat to change channels and there were phone booths on every corner. I guess that idea of Superman going into phone booth for a quick change no longer applies either.
Our municipality is thinking of removing them at the request of local business’. Superman has not been around for a long time and apparently the phone booths are being monopolized by the criminal elements.
What is the device on the right? Looks to be the most interesting.
I would, indeed, feel bothered to have to go to the TV to change channels these days. Remote control used to be an expensive option. Some of the old ones were actually whistles. One of my early answering machines, I didn’t have to carry the remote. I could call it and hum the correct tone and playback would start.
Payphones, I used to cringe when I had to press the receiver to my ear. Nasty. Sometimes it would smell like dime-store perfume. Do you remember “phone-from-car”? It was a pay phone with the receiver on an extra-long cord so you could drive up and pull it inside with you. That was high livin’. 🙂
The radio on the right is a Baofeng UV-5R+Plus 2-meter/70cm Ham Radio rig. Amateur Radio is a hobby that I more or less have dropped over the years though I have kept my license for it current. I would have a hard time passing the exams for it now, so I have to be careful not to let it expire.
I could do the same here, Dave… so many devices clutter this place it’s become ridiculous. Having said that, I’m so glad for the demise of the pay phone. As you rightly posted: nasty. :p
I know the gadget clutter well. I have a weakness for bizarre electronics.
I always try to bear in mind with each purchase that the item will require tending, storage, and take up my time and money. That slows me down some, but not nearly enough.
It reminds me of kitchen appliances. If I don’t have room for it to always stay on the counter top, it will get a couple of uses at best, then go to the storage heap. My most-used kitchen appliance for over a decade now is a small George Foreman electric grill. I bought an automatic bread maker a long time ago, used it twice, then sent it to the garage.
LOL… I hear you. Lin bought a jar opener… which she used twice if I recall (I couldn’t figure out how to operate the infernal thing) and now resides in a lower drawer. :p
You got me to thinking about my oldest appliance. I still enjoy using this heavy-as-lead hand mixer:
https://vivaldi.net/blogs/entry/my-oldest-still-used-appliance
Interesting… One of the things I told myself I would do when I retired was get my Ham certificate. Never have gotten around to it and on my pension I am not sure I could afford the equipment. I do have several scanners (one with crystals!!).
Perhaps I should look up the local Amateur Radio Club.There are plenty of Hamfests about for equipment and it’s not like I do not have the time…
Yes, a local club could point you in a few directions to help you get started. There are so many diverse things that people do with Ham Radio. I don’t even know the half of it.
Morse code is no longer a license requirement, but when I got my license as a teenager in the mid 1970’s, I loved it. It was my thing. After I had upgraded my license to do any mode that I wanted, I still did “the code” heavily. I thought it was a cool hobby for a high schooler to have. It kept me out of trouble many times. My school friends would be out carousing. I would be at home talking to people all over the former USSR during the Cold War. I did it all with below average to cheap equipment.
There are lots of retirees on the air, too. Some have had their license for 50+ years. Others, like you are thinking about doing, are adding it as a retirement hobby.