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    Kirt Blattenberger,

    BSEE - KB3UON

RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps while typing up your telephone line, and a nice lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail" when a new message arrived...

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Comics: Ye Antique Radio Collector
October 1964 Popular Electronics

October 1964 Popular Electronics

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Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Popular Electronics, published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

Here for your almost-Friday enjoyment is a collection of radio-themed comics from a 1964 issue of Popular Electronics magazine. The scenario in the first comic is one that an owner of an antiques store told me happens often with cunning customers. Now that eBay has been around for so long, shop owners, yard/garage sale holders, Craigslist sellers, and even places like Goodwill know what their items are really worth and price accordingly. In fact, about the only things you can find at those venues anymore is utter junk or stuff too big to sell and ship on eBay - like an area rug or a night stand. Every once in a while you'll come across a good deal when the person is not Internet savvy, but not often. We hardly even look anymore.

Comics: Ye Antique Radio Collector

By Rodrigues

Electronics Comic: Offer me $2 for that old radio - RF Cafe

"Watch that character try to offer me $2 for that old radio."

Electronics Comic: Outside of a nuvistor r.f. stage, a transistorized audio section - RF Cafe

"Outside of a nuvistor r.f. stage, a transistorized audio section, a silicon rectifier, a ferrite antenna, and a diode detector, it's a real classic."

Electronics Comic: You'll never be able to make a 201-A - RF Cafe

"... Oh, stop it, Joe - you'll never be able to make a 201-A."

Electronics Comic: Some days when none of those radios turn up - RF Cafe

"Of course, there are some days when none of those radios turn up, Mr. Claypool."

Electronics Comic: Carrying this antique radio hobby too far - RF Cafe

"Really, aren't you carrying this antique radio hobby too far?"

 

 

Posted September 20, 2018

 

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