The Radio Hat
Posted on December 18, 2011
OK.. off course a little bit again, but this is a delight! Provided are the circuit diagram and everything! Who here is gonna build one?
The Radio Hat
OK.. off course a little bit again, but this is a delight! Provided are the circuit diagram and everything! Who here is gonna build one?
The Radio Hat
Radio-Electronics, June 1949
It is refreshing to note that not all radio manufacturers in this country believe that radio broadcasting is doomed to early extinction. It seems certain that American ingenuity and inventiveness will do much to keep it in the foreground for generations to come.
This is exemplified by an entirely new radio receiver – the Radio Hat – illustrated on the cover of this magazine. Communication, reception of news, time and weather reports, are a constant necessity to people in this country. So is a light and portable receiver, such as the Radio Hat, illustrated in these pages…
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/RadioElectronics/Jun1949/Radio_Hat.htm
and..
Sun Hat Has Built-in Radio
Popular Science, June 1949
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/02/14/sun-hat-has-built-in-radio/
and then back to the present for a video of:
The Radio Hat Replica:
http://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2011/12/radio-hat-revival.html
