What's the radio tray / sleeve size for older models such as 604s and 504s? It's smaller than 1980s+ DIN and presumably can fit some of the smaller Philips and Grundigs from the 70s. Does anyone sell these new anymore?
ABC regional radio on AM is still the best signal in my district.
No idea what radio is like in the USA but the ABC maintains an AM transmitter in Horsham that will send signal reliably over a large area of Western Victoria and well into SA and Southern NSW. I prefer to use the old radios still in the older equipment where you just turn it on and twist the dial. Does exactly what a radio should do.
I always thought radio started in Australia in 1927 with 3LO being first in Melbourne but I may be wrong. If so such an early radio was designed for overseas fitting. Car radios were rare and not often advertised in 1920's Australia. They were an expensive luxury in the 1930's. Even after the war a car radio was more than a weeks wage. When war broke out in 1939 Bob Menzies was on the Western Highway and had to be flagged down by the Ararat policeman because the Prime Ministerial limo didn't have a radio of any sort. My 203 had a radio fitted in 1950 but it was taken out when the car was resold in 1956.
A really nice 1956 203 was bought by a trader in 2002. It had an attractive original radio in good working order but he destroyed it modernising it. Each to their own but I like to retain original features.
Did Australian ever have a system of licensing for suburban TV and radio receivers like they did in the UK ?
I remember it was enforced in the UK...