Vintage Rabbit Ears

[diamondsouled]

Passed on these a couple days ago but thought they look retro and would make a good FM radio antenna.

Cast metal base, Bakelite body and tips on real brass antenna. Don't make em like that anymore.

 

[Ilikevinyl]

Oldie but a goodie!:thmbsp:

 

[diamondsouled]

Oldie but a goodie!:thmbsp:

And you can't kill them with a stick, made to last not like some of today's junk. :yes:

 

[jblmar]

Very similar to my Archer antenna. Same brass. Use some Noxon on the brass. Cleans up nice.

 

[diamondsouled]

Very similar to my Archer antenna. Same brass. Use some Noxon on the brass. Cleans up nice.

I'm thinking I have some Brasso. Will also use a cleaner with silicone to get them to expand-collapse easier. :yes:

Also one of the end sections pulls right out, anyway to fix that?

 

[musichal]

My rabbit ears aren't vintage, but I do prefer them to folded dipoles because they are easy to reorient/rotate:

http://www.amazon.com/RCA-ANT111-Ba...&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=rca+basic+fm+antenna

 

[NeonDriver]

I have an old Archer Color Eagle from RS in the mid 80's. Even though it is plastic, I think it is pretty retro looking.

 

[blhagstrom]

Why'd you pass?

I have a set very much like that.
Work great for FM on vintage gear.
No need to "hang" a dipole.

 

[onemug]

This is the modern day equivalent of the rabbit ears, the Magnum Dynalab Silver Ribbon. Bought it for my Marantz 10b so I could watch the multipath function of the oscilloscope as I turned the antenna.

Yours is cooler.

 

[diamondsouled]

Why'd you pass?

I have a set very much like that.
Work great for FM on vintage gear.
No need to "hang" a dipole.

Passed on the first pass but after thinking about it went back and got them. :yes:

 

[WobblySam]

Nice find - we had an antenna very similar to that on our TV when I was a kid. The base weighs like 2 pounds - I used to drop it on my sister's foot when I had the chance - she was older, bigger and deserved it.

Now for a really retro look, you need some gobs of aluminum foil on the tips. It works wonders.

 

[gadget73]

I'd love to have a set like that just to plant on top of my 1950s console TV. They wouldn't be hooked up, just there purely for visual reasons.

 

[kenglish]

Those (first post) rabbit ears look exactly like the ones my parents had. They got them with their first Emerson black and white TV set, which came from Uncle Jimmy Kirkwood's (my father's uncle) store in Macon, GA.
I'll bet we threw them away last summer, when we cleaned out the old house.

 

[diamondsouled]

Those (first post) rabbit ears look exactly like the ones my parents had. They got them with their first Emerson black and white TV set, which came from Uncle Jimmy Kirkwood's (my father's uncle) store in Macon, GA.
I'll bet we threw them away last summer, when we cleaned out the old house.

Funny how some of these old products were made to last. Unfortunately most manufactured things these days have fallen into the pattern of planned obsolescence and or limited time use and irreparablility.

 

[AnalogDigit]

Those look cool. They even still work on a HDTV with a 300 ohm to 75 ohm adapter for over the air TV broadcasts.