Radiofinder is back!
October 28th, 2008By Joel Thurtell
Been a while, hasn’t it?
Can’t remember exactly when my old radiofinder.com site went down. Summer of 2004, I think.
Busy with work as a reporter with the Detroit Free Press, I let the old radio biz go by the wayside.
But a year ago, the good ol’ Free Press offered me a buyout.
In the past months, I’ve been finishing my first book, to be published in April 2009 by Wayne State University Press. It’s called UP THE ROUGE! PADDLING DETROIT’S HIDDEN RIVER. It’s about the five-day, 27-mile canoe trip I made with a Free Press photographer up the dirtiest river in the country.
That would be the Rouge River in metro Detroit.
There have been other writing projects — a Christmas book to be published, I hope, very soon. More about that in a future blog. There is a ham radio connection!
A journalism textbook, or maybe btter, an anti-textbook, called SHOESTRING REPORTER. Now finishing the copy-editing on that one.
Somehow, I kept hearing the call of radio.
Those mental dits and dahs.
Over the years, I sold most of my inventory of classic radios.
I have a few left and plan to acquire more.
I’ll take their pictures soon and post them.
But the old business model won’t be back.
Sure, I’d like to sell “classic radios that work.”
But that proved a difficult challenge.
In this blog, I plan to ruminate over the trials and tribulations of buying and selling old radios after first trying to make each and every one work like it did when it left the factory. That got to be the nightmare that made me rejoice when my website made what seemed the ultimate crash.
Oh yes, I’ll be selling radios. Not necessarily working classic radios.
I’ll be spinning stories and doing some reporting on the state of classic radio.
I’ll be writing about my adventure as a grid square DX station.
And I’ll showcase my old QST, CQ and Electric Radio articles.
Anything you’d like to see?
Drop me a line at joelthurtell(at)gmail.com