In 1979, my parents (a nurse and a car factory worker) allowed themselves a rare indulgence and bought a very expensive (£389.99) National Panasonic SG-5070 music centre.
For context, £389 was twice what they paid for their car and 10% of what they paid for their house!
It replaced the TV as their focus and music became their 'thing' at weekends and whenever shift patterns allowed.
It's taken me a decade to build this from many broken donors, but today it's finished.
I could cry right now.
@woodpunk
A wonderful thing! What really strikes me is that in 1979 you could buy a house for under £4K but you can still pay £400 for a decent hifi!
Is there still much to listen to on the LW/MW/SW radio spectrum these days?
Radio Caroline is on 648 KHz MW from a transmitter in Orfordness, Suffolk and can be received in many parts of the country. There are other stations still on MW if you like sportsball and talk radio - on SW there's mostly China and Romania and various religious stations but you if you have a good antenna, not too much interference and live near the Eastern coast you might pick up the odd Dutch pirate around 6500 KHz
@vfrmedia @acesabe @woodpunk WRTH is still issued annually that lists "every" radio and TV stations worldwide. I note that R Caroline is listed in 2023 book. Caroline is such a classic mw radio name from the boat in the channel. Has this one any relation to it? https://www.wrth.com/
@hehemrin @acesabe @woodpunk
if its on 648 KHz its the same station, it got a legal broadcast licence in 2017. they still do broadcasts from the Ross Revenge every month, although nowadays an LTE link is used to get the audio to the transmitter rather than the big mast on the ship..