Vintage Radio

[mt777]

I arrange my room and would like find nice old vintage radio but related to PC.
Maybe is something special which never seen and you can recommend...

 

[Coder]

It's not exactly what you're asking for, but there are FM tuner cards for PC. Also, there are some brands that built both PCs and radios that would make a nice tie in if you have one of those systems. Amstrad comes to mind. Zenith is another. And zenith had some pretty neat looking radios too.

 

[bladamson]

Not many of the newer modes will work on old computers. Packet and RTTY are still in use, but packet is all APRS and rtty is all contesting. Bleh.

Sometimes I think about setting up an oldskool HF packet BBS just because. But so far I haven't gotten 'round to it.

If you can find an old PakRatt TNC somewhere for not too much, you can do some fun stuff like decoding CW and AMTOR and RTTY and such. Everything runs over a serial link and (unless you're using KISS mode) it all runs on the TNC, so the computer just acts as a serial terminal and can be as slow as you want.

Here's a bunch of old Heathkit and Kenwood junk, just because. :3