SusieQ
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Post by SusieQ on Sept 20, 2016 0:02:33 GMT -8
I use a banjo, sometimes a guitar or ukulele. Otherwise, I have a very small Bose bluetooth speaker.
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gary350
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Post by gary350 on Oct 20, 2016 12:51:00 GMT -8
We don't take a radio, no TV or anything that makes music. We want to hear the birds, squirrels, wind blowing through the trees, rain, stream, water falls, leaves falling, bacon cooking, all the natural sounds of nature. We camp in the middle of the week where there are fewer people, fewer children, fewer dogs and try not to camp near anyone.
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Post by msgoehring on Oct 20, 2016 15:55:58 GMT -8
My radio will mainly be used for rallies and the days when the weather is bad and we are stuck in the trailer. There's only so much Sam can take of watching me read while the rain comes down. He isn't a reader, he says he is too slow at reading to really enjoy anything.
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Post by cowcharge on Oct 24, 2016 9:35:53 GMT -8
So far I just have a small modern boom box with detachable speakers that sits on my dinette windowsill and is wired into my camper batteries. It plays CDs and cassettes, but most of the time I just have the radio on. Its battery draw on radio doesn't even register on my amp monitor.
I kinda like both of the ideas of either hiding a bluetooth speaker in an old radio, or hiding the entire apparatus. But I'm resistant to having (or paying for) a music collection on my phone. If I want to hear a particular tune I just look it up on youtube.
I do have quite a few karaoke tunes on my computer, though.
I have an old green plastic AM radio from the 60s that I maybe could squeeze the innards from my boombox into, but it's not high on the list of priorities.
I'd never have the patience to deal with vinyl record players.
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Post by theresa on Oct 24, 2016 9:39:50 GMT -8
So far I just have a small modern boom box with detachable speakers that sits on my dinette windowsill and is wired into my camper batteries. It plays CDs and cassettes, but most of the time I just have the radio on. Its battery draw on radio doesn't even register on my amp monitor. I kinda like both of the ideas of either hiding a bluetooth speaker in an old radio, or hiding the entire apparatus. But I'm resistant to having (or paying for) a music collection on my phone. If I want to hear a particular tune I just look it up on youtube. I do have quite a few karaoke tunes on my computer, though. I have an old green plastic AM radio from the 60s that I maybe could squeeze the innards from my boombox into, but it's not high on the list of priorities. I'd never have the patience to deal with vinyl record players. If you were at all interested in selling said plastic green radio, I'd be interested in buying.
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Post by theresa on Nov 9, 2016 6:25:29 GMT -8
I just saw this vintage-look Bluetooth speaker in an ad for Christmas Tree Shoppe. It's just a speaker, but for $25, I think it will look nice and blend in well with the camper decor to be able to stream music from my phone. link
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Post by Dad Rambles on Nov 9, 2016 6:42:19 GMT -8
We use this Blutooth speaker. Has a great charge time, life. I use either my smartphone or ipod. Love it. Would definitely recommend it.
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Post by msgoehring on Nov 9, 2016 10:37:50 GMT -8
both are good options, but I'm staying with my modified vintage radio. That isn't something pretending to be vintage, it is vintage, only it will have some upgrades so I can play music from anything. 😁
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Post by HOTRODPRIMER on Nov 9, 2016 11:22:28 GMT -8
I have a juice harp, a harmonica and a recorder plus a banjo & guitar but I will leave them at home,I wouldn't want to subject total strangers to my caterwauling and hack musical talent.
I guess I'll use a small radio.Danny
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Post by Teachndad on Dec 1, 2018 10:08:51 GMT -8
Hi Friends, I seldom come down here into the hinterlands of the forum, but an early rise from sleep left me exploring. I found this old thread and liked the idea of using a blue tooth speaker in an old vintage radio playing 50's music during rallies. So, hey, Christmas is coming up, so why not see if I can find a good buy on ebay for a gift for myself. Found this radio built in 1951 on ebay - perfect for my 1955 Rod and Reel. It's missing a lower knob, but it works and has some token grease from years of placement in the kitchen for a little character. So, who cares for a whopping $20 including shipping. It even looks to have room inside for my blue tooth speaker without gutting it, too. Happy Holidays! Rod
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Post by datac on Dec 3, 2018 11:45:14 GMT -8
You might enjoy this- I've built a few internet radios in vintage radio cases. This is one I built in a 1941 Philco Little Bullet case a couple of years back:
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Post by danrhodes on Dec 6, 2018 16:34:38 GMT -8
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Post by Teachndad on Dec 8, 2018 7:58:47 GMT -8
Mr. Cheapo strikes again! I like it. Thanks for the recommendation, Dan. For that inexpensive cost and free shipping, its worth a try. If it doesn't work out in the back of the radio, I can use it in my classroom after school, link to my phone and play some classic rock to help forget the days struggles with the kids, LOL. Peace out. Rod
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Post by Teachndad on Dec 8, 2018 8:40:30 GMT -8
You might enjoy this- I've built a few internet radios in vintage radio cases. This is one I built in a 1941 Philco Little Bullet case a couple of years back: Datac, Very impressive! What mods did you put into the radio cabinet? Looks like you added buttons and a screen. Cool! Rod
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Post by datac on Dec 17, 2018 15:41:51 GMT -8
You might enjoy this- I've built a few internet radios in vintage radio cases. This is one I built in a 1941 Philco Little Bullet case a couple of years back: Datac, Very impressive! What mods did you put into the radio cabinet? Looks like you added buttons and a screen. Cool! Rod No exterior mods at all, mostly just internal brackets to hold the new guts. Here's the before shot- the pushbutton on the far left is the factory power button, and frequently fails on this model, thus the mismatched repair visible here. I found an original bakelite button since that clearly wasn't going to do.
The original switchgear is all mounted to the chassis, which I didn't want to cannibalize (it's sitting undamaged on a shelf in case I ever decided to teach myself to troubleshoot tube radios). The original pushbuttons slide over stamped sheetmetal arms, which I replicated by cutting small steel stubs which I fitted into the split shafts of the new rotary encoders I used for both the momentary switches and the knobs. Big fun making lots of tiny little mounting brackets.
Here's the inside. Raspberry Pi and HifiBerry Amp+ combo DAC and amp in the black box on the left, power management SSRs and microprocessor center bottom, 12v and 5v power supplies lower right, Retrosound dual coil speaker (the HifiBerry Amp+ isn't bridgeable, so necessary to gracefully handle the stereo output as I didn't want to alter the case for a second speaker), scrap wood with rotary encoders and homemade mount brackets center top (used here just as pushbuttons), HDMI display is the blue panel (it's a full-color display, but I designed all of the menus in a sepia tone). Hard to see here are the three additional rotary encoders just under the display, and the Pro Trinket microprocessor in the large heat shrink tube dead center. All of the controls interact with the Pro Trinket, which functions as a plain old USB keyboard emulator, translating all of the clicks and rotations into keyboard commands that are easy to map to various program functions (yeah, I'm that lazy).
I started out to write the software from scratch, but discovered that via various add-ons Kodi already had all of the functions I needed (albeit targeted towards video) and was skinnable. Yep, lazy. Configuring the software consisted of about twenty minutes setting up Kodi, another ten or fifteen minutes for all of the add-ons, five minutes on the keyboard mappings, maybe an hour writing emulator code for the Pro Trinket, and, ummm, three weeks doing graphic design work for the interface, which is where the OCD kicks in. Each function has unique themed graphics, and I was pretty pleased with how they turned out. Functions include: Radio (Kodi deRadio streaming radio addon, umpteen hundred worldwide radio stations) Pandora (no ads or pauses!) Podcasts (iTunes podcast app, no iTunes account necessary) Library (Samba share of 1TB media collection on NAS) Police & Fire (worldwide scanner/emergency broadcasts, pretty cool)
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