I was teaching 6th grade in 1957. One of my students brought his rocket
radio to school and we connected the gat. We heard 4 stations there in
Jacksonville Florida. He adopted the Oldsmobile theme, There's A Rocket for
Every Pocket.
Bob Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: The Rocket Radio
> Mike,
>
> You nailed it. That was exactly what my rocket radio looked like. I grew
> up in Des Moines, Iowa so W H O radio was the only station I could get,
> haha. Yet, it was loads of fun and the memories of those early radio days
> are great to have.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 6:33 PM
> Subject: The Rocket Radio
>
>
>> Wow, Phil!
>>
>> I had not thought of that little rocket radio in years! A friend of my
>> brother won one in some contest at school, and he came to our house and
>> gave it to me. I was 5 years-old, but was already hooked on all things
>> radio.
>>
>> For those who never saw one, it looked like, well, a rocket. Or, at
>> least an ice cream cone standing upside down with its point in the air,
>> which is what I had always been told a rocket looked like.
>>
>> The tuning control was a slider, which was built to look and operate
>> like a short telescoping antenna, and that made the point of the rocket.
>>
>> It had one of those single earpieces, and another wire with an
>> alligator clip on the end, which you clipped onto something that would
>> provide a ground. I remember having barrels of fun putting the
>> alligator clip on everything within my reach to see what would make it
>> play.
>>
>> The town I grew up in only had one 500 watt day tine station, so there
>> was not much need to tune the radio, and I never received any station
>> with it at night.
>>
>> But it was still fun!
>>
>> Thanks for the smile!
>>
>> --
>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>>
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