My Other Hobby (one of them anyway)

dan · May 11, 2008

I retired last year after teaching college radio for 26 years, and I've always loved old-time radio (Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, the Lone Ranger, like that).

So I was ecstatic the day my old-time radio hobby merged with my metal detecting hobby.

I found what I thought was a token of some kind, but after I cleaned it up, it turned out to be a 1935 Radio Orphan Annie Decoder Wheel! (Like the Ovaltine Secret Decoder Ralphie had in A Christmas Story):

RickO · May 12, 2008

Very cool.. and looks in good condition as well. RickO

TimC · May 14, 2008

Dan, do you do any ham radio? That's my other hobby.

geodawn · May 14, 2008

That's a real neat find! "Remember kids, drink your Ovaltine!"

dan · May 14, 2008

TimC said:
Dan, do you do any ham radio? That's my other hobby.

My ham call is N9XDK, I'm a no-code technician but I haven't been active for several years except to be the auctioneer for the local ham club's annual sale.

I do my long-distance communication via the internet nowadays.

I ran a college radio station for 26 years. I picked up a ham license mainly because I had an FCC First Class Radiotelephone license, so the test for the Ham tech license was pretty easy - I'd already llearned all the material (except for the few laws that pertained exclusively to amateur radio) when I prepared for the First Class test.

DougF · May 14, 2008

Leaping Lizards !!! That's a great find.

dan · May 14, 2008

Doug, don't tell me - you wore a red wig and played Annie in your local high school musical, right?

DougF · May 15, 2008

dan said:
Doug, don't tell me - you wore a red wig and played Annie in your local high school musical, right?

No, I played Sandy...arf, arf

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