Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 24, 2021 8:31:19 GMT -8
Sony TFM-8000W AM/FM/SW/PSB Radio
My brother picked this up at a second-hand shop for $2.00. On eBay you can get two hundred dollars up for one of these in working condition. This one had a few of the bands that weren’t working. But I became enamored with it and took a shot at cleaning it up, inside and out.
The band issue was resolved when I used some electronic cleaner on the internal band selection switch. This, I’ve come to find, is a known issue.
The only real issue with it now is that the on/off switch knob is broken off. But it runs successfully either on AC or via 4 D batteries. Given the hell unleashed on us by Biden and his Communist or anarchical minions (BLM, Antifa, Nancy Pelosi, the gender police, etc.), it would be good to have a nice radio that operates on batteries should the need come.
And it sounds remarkably good for a radio of this size. I’ve been mainly listening to Classical King FM. And the results are pleasing, This radio doesn’t have any of the modern digital signal processors. But from what I’ve read on forums and such, it is remarkably good at picking up stations for the technology of the time (circa 1975).
Certainly nostalgia fuels my interest in an item of this type. But damned if this isn’t just a solid and good-sounding radio, no matter when it was made. Given how the idiots, Communists, gender-benders, Evil Woke People, and others are trashing our society at a rapid clip, the impulse is to preserve, protect, and appreciate those good things that the heathens among us would destroy. This radio is one of those things.
My brother picked this up at a second-hand shop for $2.00. On eBay you can get two hundred dollars up for one of these in working condition. This one had a few of the bands that weren’t working. But I became enamored with it and took a shot at cleaning it up, inside and out.
The band issue was resolved when I used some electronic cleaner on the internal band selection switch. This, I’ve come to find, is a known issue.
The only real issue with it now is that the on/off switch knob is broken off. But it runs successfully either on AC or via 4 D batteries. Given the hell unleashed on us by Biden and his Communist or anarchical minions (BLM, Antifa, Nancy Pelosi, the gender police, etc.), it would be good to have a nice radio that operates on batteries should the need come.
And it sounds remarkably good for a radio of this size. I’ve been mainly listening to Classical King FM. And the results are pleasing, This radio doesn’t have any of the modern digital signal processors. But from what I’ve read on forums and such, it is remarkably good at picking up stations for the technology of the time (circa 1975).
If I take it outside, I can pick up a few things on two of the three different shortwave bands. Indoors, I can get just two on the SW1 band (1.5 - 4 MHz). Yesterday I ordered an external “slinky” type of antenna. I’ll mount that indoors in front of some windows and see if that improves shortwave reception. I have no real need for it. I just want to see what the radio is capable of.
Even when outside, the only thing I pick up on the PSB (Public Service Band) is an automated NOAH weather broadcast. I've come to learn that this may be all one can expect to find on the 147 - 174 MHz band, the police and emergency broadcasts perhaps having moved to other frequencies since 1975?
Certainly nostalgia fuels my interest in an item of this type. But damned if this isn’t just a solid and good-sounding radio, no matter when it was made. Given how the idiots, Communists, gender-benders, Evil Woke People, and others are trashing our society at a rapid clip, the impulse is to preserve, protect, and appreciate those good things that the heathens among us would destroy. This radio is one of those things.
