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Old 04-19-2025, 10:43 AM   #21
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I've heard the name Thomas Edison mentioned.
So how do I contact this Edison guy?
I realize the A makes listen to a radio very difficult -- still !!
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Old 04-19-2025, 11:41 AM   #22
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Now days, folks can blue tooth right off their phone to a speaker set up where ever a person want to put them in portable fashion. With a phone music app, it's easy to set up a playlist of stuff to listen to. Its all self contained and removable. Some blue tooth to an updated car radio if that's what a person wants. There is generally always a radio geek around that can do stuff like this.
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Now days, folks can blue tooth right off their phone to a speaker set up where ever a person want to put them in portable fashion. With a phone music app, it's easy to set up a playlist of stuff to listen to. Its all self contained and removable. ........
+1 - I even put a link for a $35 bluetooth speaker in my post. Easier and cheaper than any of the other options.
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Old 04-20-2025, 01:20 PM   #24
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I'm wondering how an original tuning head (cables), would mate up to completely new

guts in the radio case. This sounds like a very expensive undertaking.
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Old 04-26-2025, 03:22 PM   #25
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I have a 1937 Crosley Fiver Romeo in my 29 Roadster. I have a 6 volt positive ground RediRad connected to the antenna input. The RediRad will convert input from your phone to an AM signal into the radio. It works pretty good. For some reason I don’t get any ignition interference from the engine.
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Old 04-26-2025, 09:13 PM   #26
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I saw a gag photo from a very early car magazine (fromEngland?). It showed wires strung from masts fore and aft, and a wire leading to a potted plant mounted on the running board. This was the ground (earth in England).
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I just bluetooth connect a portable JBL micro speaker that I keep under the driver's seat to my iphone and play 1930s music when I want to show off. As long as I am within about 50 meters of my 'Henry' the sound quality is great...and the source is invisible. Having the speaker under the seat seems to make it sound like the music is coming from 'Henry's' heart. Volume can be adjusted remotely as well.
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