Lab Assignment #11

I suppose this is a really old radio, the authentic vintage look that everything modern tries to copy. It's interesting to me that there's still a metal antenna on it that looks extendable - I haven't seen one of those in a long time, not even on automobiles. This makes me nostalgic for the days of bunny ears on TV sets and for the sound of my mom's Volvo's radio antenna coming out of the front of the car when I was a little kid. Those times were much simpler; these days it's all about how much music you can have to choose from, rather than just sitting back and actually listening to it.
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A regular alarm clock-radio. I have one that sits beside my bed, and the quality is terrible because I can never get quite the right signal from my antenna. Still, I don't see myself upgrading to a WiFi radio anytime soon, as I have adapted to other forms of getting my music fix when I wake up in the morning.
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These days it seems they can make everything old new again. This is a WiFi radio made to look like a classic radio one might find back in the 40's or 50's (or at least that's my guess... I obviously wasn't alive back then).
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This is a WiFi transmitter... we're definitely not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy. It's pretty insane how much technology has evolved from phonographic radios to this photograph here. Everything is computerized in this day and age, but my question is "why doesn't it sound like it's live yet?"
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I'm kind of in awe of how little is required to send out a radio broadcast. Still, It does look complicated. I wonder what a radio transmitter would have looked like 30 years ago, or even when radios were first invented, if the machine is as large as it is now.
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