Hand cranked radio full circle
Hand cranked radios
So with the title of hand crank radio full circle I was talking about how my grandfather in the 1930's bought a hand-cranked radio they were tenant farmers and where they were at they did not have any electricity they didn't have the money for newspaper or a lot of other media and consumption but they managed to get a hand-crank radio and were able to listen to many of the events all around the world that were broadcast on the networks.
They could only get AM stations back then but it's still interesting to think about getting weather reports and news updates from a voice from an authority far away the main station around then was WMT 600 it's still broadcast today.
Growing up I remember listing to the radio for three main events. 1 in the car was the most common we would tune in to a music station or AM for a sports update. 2 When in the house around the holiday times when the Christmas music would play. 3 When the bad weather would hit sometimes we would stay upstairs and watch the TV other times we would go in the basement and mom had a battery operated radio it was just AM/FM.
The Radio I just bought Summer of 2020 before 8/10/2020.
Just one minute of cranking produced 45 minutes of radio time and 30 minutes of flashlight use
the Midland ER210
is the best choice for most people. It has better reception, a brighter flashlight, and more-effective charging options than the other models we tested, including the ability to charge from dead by solar power or hand-cranking.
Multiple Sustainable Power Sources – Solar, hand crank, rechargeable battery
I got a new radio it has 3 radio bands that can be picked up.
1) FM radio my Android phone can also pick up this band and it seems to be the most popular with stations and listens. On the FM broadcast band, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reserved the lowest 20 channels, 201~220 (88.1~91.9 MHz) for Non-commercial educational stations only. This is known as the reserved band, Iowa Public Radio and some other nonprofit station broadcast at that frequency
2) AM bands people still listen to AM bands phones don't have receiver chips built into them. In history this was the main thing people would use for media before TV.
3) NOAA weather band radio is a non commercial weather radio
The Golden Age of Radio
Radio broadcasting was the cheapest form of entertainment, and it provided the public with far better entertainment than most people were accustomed to. As a result, its popularity grew rapidly in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and by 1934, 60 percent of the nation’s households had radios. One and a half million cars were also equipped with them.
Radio was the nation's first mass medium, linking the country and ending the isolation of rural residents. Radio was so important that the 1930 Census asked if the household had a radio. Radio provided free entertainment (after you bought the radio)
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (served 1933–1945) immediately seized on the popularity of radio with his series of Fireside Chats that he conducted beginning in the second week of his presidency. Roosevelt would use radio to not only lobby for public support of his programs, but also to inform the public of important events and perhaps most importantly reassure the public through his unique personal character that faith in the future was warranted. Though only relatively wealthy Americans owned radios a decade earlier, in the 1930s radios became a common appliance owned by the majority of Americans and by a large number of people in other areas of the Western world. Radio was fast becoming a way of life.
By the mid-1930s two-thirds of American homes had radio sets, and by 1939 about 80 percent of Americans—about 25 million people—owned radios
I may edit this more later but I have wanted to publish it for a while....
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