I’m pretty sure my grandmother still has my grandfather’s radio. It looks like one in the picture.

My grandfather used to love listening to short wave. I eventually took up an interest and became a ham radio operator on HF. Wish he could’ve seen. He loved listening to far away stations.

My Dad bought one and took it with us on family camping trips.

I still remember the weird and eerie warbles, chirps and harmonics; creepier than many camp fire ghost stories, under the right conditions.

My family had one of these. When playing with it I had no idea what I was doing but occasionally I could pick up sounds like the drone at the beginning of Empire Strikes Back

Thems dead sexay.

Shortable Portwaves

I remember seeing the second one at my grandparents house when I was a kid!