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/
