Would you wear this 1949 Radio Electronics Magazine "Radio Hat"?

[blueroomelectronics]

Found this site with lots of old Radio Electronics magazine issues, but this hat was too much
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[3v0]

What a trip down memory lane.

Found this link while reading the Radio-Electronics info.
https://www.swtpc.com/mholley/RadioElectronics/May1976/Gates_Letter.pdf

 

[HiTech]

I have a large collection of electronics magazines, including all of those RE issues shown from 1971 onward. I also have Popular Electronics when they were half-sized pubilcations. Some of those go back into the '60s. It's a real hoot to see "pictorial" assembly diagrams along with the schematic. Never an ad about a 'puter or even a calculator in those old issues. There were more ads on electronics correspondence courses.

 

[Andy1845c]

Is that loop the antenna? Seems like turning your head would affect the signal strength.

Edit: Just scanned though the artical. It is a loop antenna...... I guess you turn your head to look at somthing and lose your station

 

[Leftyretro]

Bet that would get you laid at a UFO convention

Lefty

 

[blueroomelectronics]

Guess those tubes would keep your head warm. How big are a pair of 22V batteries?

Nice "improved" transistor picture in the article on the hat too.

 

[crusty]

dude, that's totally the new hawtness.

 

[ThermalRunaway]

I sometimes wear my geeky t-shirt which reads;

"there are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't"

I also wear my 8-bit tie to work sometimes.

I draw the line at that hat though!

Brian

 

[43617373]

"there are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't"

I love that quote, only second to mythbusters, "I reject your reality and substitute it with my own."

 

[HiTech]

I sometimes wear my geeky t-shirt which reads;

"there are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't"

I also wear my 8-bit tie to work sometimes.

Me wonders if you got pushed around and beat up a lot during your school days!!

 

[43617373]

Me wonders if you got pushed around and beat up a lot during your school days!!

I never understood this stereotype of week nerdy people, I wore a bunch of shirts like that while I was on the football team and going to the gym a lot.

 

[Roff]

Guess those tubes would keep your head warm. How big are a pair of 22V batteries?

Nice "improved" transistor picture in the article on the hat too.

22V batteries (actually, 22.5V) are the same size as 9V PP3 batteries, but they have one terminal on each end. You can still buy them (NEDA 215 or Eveready 412). I built a regenerative 1 tube (1S5) radio in 1958 or '59. It used a 22.5V battery for the plate supply, and a 1.5V D cell for the heater power. That little battery seemed to last forever.