Wow, What a Lot of Great Radios. What a Great Video. Thanks to You And David for Showing us his really cool Collection.

Beautiful collection !

Those older sets were made of quality that lasted and were made to be fixed. I didn’t know Lear made house radios. He invented the 8 track while Muntz invented the 4 track. That Lear radio had a good sound.

Thanks, David. This was a real treat. The RCA Victor has to be the best "unboxing" video on KZfaq. And it's a beautiful radio. The big Philco by the wall, though...that's was my favorite of the exceptional pieces in this collection. The woodwork, styling, and finish are superb. It's nice piece of antique furniture, even if the radio doesn't work. And thanks Shango for documenting the collection and it's known history. Good stuff. :)

Very nice collection. And what a gem that new old stock radio in the is.

You can still buy the Shure 520DX aka "green bullet" microphone. I own one and have used it as a harp (harmonica) mic for years. "Little Walter" - the famous blues harp player - used that model extensively.

Great collection and an interesting guy. You can tell that the radio/electronics bug bit him early in life and has always been there. I know the feeling as many watching this video do also. Good job. Thanks.

Your dad lives on...awesome video.

The dry cell was for the microphone. That looks like a condenser mic. The battery could have been to put charge on the mic.

That's a nice collection David has there. The NOS RCA still in the box is a '48-'49 model....I had one. As someone that fixes and restores old radios, my first instinct would be to get it working again, but then I thought "No---it's only original once". I'd put it back in the box the way it came out, tape it back up, and keep it in a very safe place. It's a survivor, a museum piece.

Most enjoyable view. Quite the collection

Parabéns pelos vídeos!

Nice collection and very nice home.

I have one of those little Sylvania radios. They're designed to be operated facing up. Very sensitive for a simple 4-transistor set.

Thanks for sharing the history of the cool radios! When I was a kid during grade school, mainly during the 5th & 6th grades, I used to have a snoopy shaped transistor radio. Used that a lot! Also, I watched this video instead of the debates...this was far more interesting.

Nice video presentation. Loved the stories. Very entertaining and nice guy.

That Zenith FM only is a unique set sold by the Zenith Radio Corp. to promote the FM (Frequency Modulation) developed by Major and Professor Edwin Howard Armstrong of Columbia University. Chicago had only one FM Radio Station in the early 1950's and is marked on the Face Dial of this radio by the small white dot at 100 on the FM Dial. This radio was oftentimes given away as gifts to people having bought another Zenith product, whether it be a console, television or even another radio.

The Motorola Brick, I had one of those in the early 90's, great phone, heavy in you pocket when you didn't have a belt on. Very nice collection and commentary. Amazing that N.O.S. radio.

Don't think I could resist a day without trying to power any of these.

The Antique Wireless Museum in Bloomfield NY has the very first analog cell phone, I think it may have been a prototype. I got a guided tour and the guy said the gentleman that had it took it when it was going to be thrown out by the company he worked for, i don't remember the company name. That museum has a lot "firsts" in it including the first transistor radio made, not the Regency that was later mass marketed, and one of Armstrong's first FM radios he built when developing FM. Facinating place.

Strongly believe the dry cell on the PA was a bias source for the carbon microphone. When I was a kid, my parents had a cellphone in the car, that had a battery that you had to carry around in a bag.

I have a big old tube radio still works got to be 50 60 years old pretty cool that it plays modern day radio stations

Many thanks for introducing David to us, very interesting and informative!

Fine collection.

POWER IT THREW A 60 WATT BULB IF THE BULB LIGHTS BRITE YOU WILL NEED NEW CAPS IF THE RADIO PLAYS AND THE BULB IS DIM YOUR RADIO THOULD BE SAFE BUT I WOULD STILL CHANGE THE FILTER CAP TO BE SAFE

Really cool collect and narratives! I really liked the mics, the pill mic that read "On The Air" for some dumb reason made me think of Gary Owens, all though he didn't use a pill mic, I believe his was a large diaphragm! The larger Allied mic is called a "carbon" mic, those mics are very cool and can fetch a hefty price on eBay....for the most part, that's how carbon can look....nekkid! It would be cool to see Shango's personal collection as well!

i love it..good one shango066

Question... Does anybody know much about Gilbert radios, I've recently come into possession of one it's quite large and very similar to the philco one the guys showing in the video, it has a large circular dial at the top with 4 knobs underneath, in the dial it shows various cities around the world it also says its short wave, medium wave and long wave. I'm not sure where to look online to do the research, can anyone help?

There were not a huge number of technical innovations between 1920 and 1940, however the form and style had changed considerably. We still use superheterodyne AM today, even though it was invented during WW1. The FM radio that is widespread today, was invented in the early 1930s. What changed the most was the method of manufacture, which brought the price of a radio down by an order of magnitude, and standardized many mass-production techniques. This basic design plan persisted until well into the 1980s.

Nice radios 📻. I've got a all tube old radio but can't find the brand on it. 🤔👍🏻

I want to buy this raido

I grew up with a 8 ft long 1962 motorola tubed console, still have it with the console collection. Dad would'nt let us kids turn on the 1 tv in the house he bought to watch hee haw.

Neat collection! It would be cool to see Shango066 fix the atwater kent or the philco cathedral! I enjoy your longer videos! Maybe you could have a crossover video where radiotvphononut collaborates on a repair with you.

I still have the old radio, on the right, with Mickey Mouse on the dial. Got it for Christmas when I was about 10 and I'm 67 now.

Nice collection but the best part of collecting vintage radios is getting them to "sing" again!

Amigo, você uma bela coleção de rádios, notei que alguns pede reparo, mas é isso aí parabéns! Rio Brasil

If they were mine I would have them fully restored and run all of them on a regular basis a real shame they are just gathering dust.

Shang, many a capacitor manufacturer has claimed over the years that their capacitors would last forever, but they all turned out to be wrong. Nobody knows if mylar will really remain stable for many years. Only time will tell.

That is a collection!

I have this old philips radio which is fine on all bands exept its very quiet on FM. i swapped the ecc85 but it was very low volume. reception is fine though. any ideas?

9:27 im offended

I am curious how does a brigntner work ? is it just a boost circuit that boosts the filimant voltage? and if my understanding is right that will simply increaase the emission from the electron accelerator

I visited allied in Chicago in the 60s kg6mn

your dad is from minnesota ? you never told us your dad was scaninavian.

See what happens, they're multiplying 😨

I have a 1957 Zenith Royal 760 Navigator, the leather box is the only thing wrong with it.

It's funny how kids are so quick to shun this sort of technology, or even laugh at it as if it's primitive. I'd like to see them build something better or even begin to understand how this sort of technology works.

WOW

Shango's a good tech that could make any of your treasures operate like new. But don't let him talk you in to an EOL or any of that nonsense on those gems. Nice collection sir.

Is it wrong of me to geek out on this😄

44:10 why does David wind all his power cables up so tightly in a bundle, yet wonder why all of them are in tatters

"Video killed the radio star..." The Pepsi Radio.makes me want a glass of Pepsi right now!!! Subliminal messages beaming at me through KZfaq!!!

does he have a channel

worlds oldest unboxing

Nice collection and story . Video killed the Radio Star :o(