A tour of the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum in Windsor CT

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  • @powellmountainmike8853
    @powellmountainmike8853 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    LOL ! Great video... When the lady said she listened to Jean Shepherd every night, SI DID I The video brought back a lot of memories. I remember the transition from tubes to transistors. When I was in the Navy a lot of the short wave communications gear was still tube.

  • @natarajsharma
    @natarajsharma 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I just loved this - carried along by your buoyant enthusiasm. Keep on keeping on!

  • @jimmiddleton5093
    @jimmiddleton5093 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Lol I wonder how many times I said “ohhh wow” watching this video lol 😂 Thanks for sharing it with us.

  • @RamPravesh-cm5cq
    @RamPravesh-cm5cq 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Beautiful🌹 and👍🌹

  • @larryarcher4502
    @larryarcher4502 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That was an absolutely wonderful Toure, Thank you for sharing that!!

  • @maakjar
    @maakjar ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great tour I had no idea! I live 1 hour from there. Definitely going now! I love Mom too she’s awesome!!!

  • @davebollinger8863
    @davebollinger8863 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is great. There is an antique electronics museum in Huntington WV. Also.

  • @lurkersmith810
    @lurkersmith810 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    09:27 Just sitting in the background (left side, wood radio with the curved dial) is my favorite early (1946) Zenith AM FM radios, the 8H034, with the wood cabinet designed by Charles and Ray Eames. Zenith called it "The Major" after Major Edwin Howard Armstrong, the inventor of Frequency Modulation, among other things. It had two FM bands in anticipation of FM moving to the band we have now, which was then known as "FM 100". Isn't it beautiful? I'm going to go listen to mine right now!

  • @clems6989
    @clems6989 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Nice ! Would lve to go there...

  • @jlibb099
    @jlibb099 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Pretty darn cool...

  • @lurkersmith810
    @lurkersmith810 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    26:30 "We're just using these tubes to make chess sets..." and grabs a Philco globe style 45 tube! I hope it was tested and known bad before becoming a King on some chess set!

  • @MrGigi-dz9cv
    @MrGigi-dz9cv ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The radio heavens...

  • @ctwentysevenj6531
    @ctwentysevenj6531 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Now you can fit millions of transistors on a tiny chip the size of a finger nail.

  • @naderhumood1199
    @naderhumood1199 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lovely video......terrific keep it up. Thanks very much.

  • @fortheearth
    @fortheearth 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the tour!

  • @gonebamboo4116
    @gonebamboo4116 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks from the other side of the globe

  • @gadget73
    @gadget73 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Very cool. Radio almost dead center of the thumbnail is one I own, a Radiola Superhetrodyne. Its one of m the few in my collection that doesn't work. It might work if I had tubes for it, but 8 UV199's are more $$ than I want to fork out.

    • @retrotechandelectronics
      @retrotechandelectronics  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have an AK20 with 5 UX201A tubes that all work but I cant imagine what it would cost to re-tube today

    • @gadget73
      @gadget73 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bought my AK20 with UX201A's for less than the value of the tubes. Nice shape, bad interstage trafos. Re-stuffed the transformer cans with modern ones and it works and looks fine now. Bought it more for spare tubes honestly but it was an easy repair.

    • @retrotechandelectronics
      @retrotechandelectronics  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Great, I imagine you have one of those battery replacement power supplies like I do.

  • @kennynvake4hve584
    @kennynvake4hve584 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Was there an Enigma code machine there...now that would be cool..

    • @retrotechandelectronics
      @retrotechandelectronics  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It does not, I think there is one in the crypto museum in Ft Meade.

  • @jeffkamen2307
    @jeffkamen2307 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I live in CT and didn't know this place existed. Perhaps they need to advertise a bit better. :)

    • @retrotechandelectronics
      @retrotechandelectronics  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, it is not well known unless you see the signs off the highway by Windsor Locks

    • @goodun6081
      @goodun6081 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I used to buy and sell vintage electronics at the radio-museum swap meets. My consistent experience is that the guys who run this museum give a whole new meaning to the concept of disorganization.

  • @marks6406
    @marks6406 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool mom ....

  • @juliem1595
    @juliem1595 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I thought you had all of those things?

  • @user-my2mn6vb9g
    @user-my2mn6vb9g หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hello! My name is Yulia, I am a producer on the Russian channel REN TV. We would like to use this video for our new educational program. please tell me how possible this is? thanks for the answer

    • @retrotechandelectronics
      @retrotechandelectronics  29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Please contact me at my email address.

    • @user-my2mn6vb9g
      @user-my2mn6vb9g 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

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  • @jwc4520
    @jwc4520 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Looking for a 1030s spy radio, with auxiliary amps, should be about the size of a small upright piano light green with German markings, separate rec.and Trans. Antennas , used in America by saboteur... tried to destroy Wright airplan factory

    • @retrotechandelectronics
      @retrotechandelectronics  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      in a museum? maybe at ft meade

    • @richiehoyt8487
      @richiehoyt8487 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jazzy colour, the size of a _piano,_ and with _German_ insignia; and it belonged to a German spy operating in, ie, against America?! I'm familiar with that old bit of pop psychology that says that every criminal, deep down, wants to be caught... I guess there's something to that, after all!
      On second looking, I see that, notwithstanding what is presumably a typo, this happened in the 1930's, well before America was in the war. Still, not exactly discreet...

  • @fevieduero5990
    @fevieduero5990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i have 0ne old radio pm plss

  • @chandershekhar5972
    @chandershekhar5972 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤necy

  • @captlarry-3525
    @captlarry-3525 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So much Mis-Information and half baked opinion in the conversations.. I would prefer this with no audio at all !