Reviving Nostalgia: Sony ICF-P26 & P27 – The Timeless Appeal of Transistor Radios

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48 thoughts on “Reviving Nostalgia: Sony ICF-P26 & P27 – The Timeless Appeal of Transistor Radios”

  1. WASTE OF TIME til the stations go back to analog. Today all stations are using digital output from digital media.

    So you CANNOT get full spectrum analog audio whatsoever.

    If analog ever EVER is allowed to come back,

    it will be a glorious time again.

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  2. If it was just a little cheaper I would totally buy this just for the novelty of it. Can't believe a hig progressive corporation like Sony is still manufacturing (or at least selling under their brand) such old school technology. My dad had a Panasonic AM only transistor radio he kept on his desk at work to listen to talk radio.

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  3. Like boomers, we will be working till 90 because of capitalist swines dissolving our pensions, busting our unions and paying starvation wages to the workers while they steal what we produce.

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  4. on black friday I think 2018(yes when there was great deals) I begged my dad to take us to stores and brought me to the store and I bought a Sony ICF P26 which i still have and was the last thing my dad untill i started earning money and its still working

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  5. Not a transistor radio but I picked up a Grundig yacht boy recently (the Porsche designed one) it has an awful reputation and yes the auto tuning is crap but it does very well on AM with a passive antenna loop and step tuning. Was getting plenty of foreign stations. Switched it to 9 khz setting and even got a few more stations from much further away. Passive antenna loops are great.

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  6. I have one of these radios, I like listening to AM at night and I live in SW Ohio and I get WBAP out of Ft. Worth, WOAI out of San Antonio WBZ out of Boston and all the Chicago, New York, Detroit, Atlanta, Richmond VA, St. Louis the number of AM stations that you can get at night are unreal. I also have an old Sony radio made in Japan that I got in 1971 and still works.

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  7. I wish I could remember what model of alarm clock my dad used to have. It's the only typical alarm clock of the 80's, but this would also work on the 9V battery. The last time I remember using it was during that massive black out back in 2002? 2003?

    Cut to the last one I saw. Actually seen them more then ever being used in food trucks. Or those hot dog and sausage carts you see at events. They all range in styles. But seen some that run on no battery. They are hand cranked ones. Which seems kinda silly. But makes total sense when it does what ya want it to do.

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  8. It's not stereo. Limited loudness allows it to run longer. I usually listened to the radio on casette player because the battery didn't last long turning the tape motor. My first radio was very small that could only receive long and medium wave. "Transistor" doesn't mean portable or small.

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  9. I have a radio just like the Sony, same dial, same buttons and jack, same antenna same build but it's branded EKO and only cost me AU$13 from Big W. The Sony radios here cost $45.

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  10. I keep one in the trunk of my car, and one in a closet. They came in useful back when Texas got a week of freezing temps and snow a few years ago. Power was rationed/ cut off for a week, so radios were about the only way to keep informed.

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