Do you remember those AM radio kits you get as a kid, and you build your own AM radio? Well, I never actually built one. But I did get them as a gift, for, like, 3 Christmases in a row, and I hated them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.
My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.
There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.
I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.
I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.