So basically, those bands on this radio have been rendered mostly useless in this area.
Unfortunately, most of my local emergency services have switched to “digital trunking” radios and are no longer able to be heard in their original, conventional form as a VHF (Very High Frequency) broadcast. I tried to listen to the AIR and PB bands for anything interesting. Rhapsody RY-610 Tuning ControlsĪfter powering up the radio. It can run on four D-cell batteries, or via a built-in (and stowable) AC line cord, or by the use of a 12DC external input, the latter allowing the radio to run off of a conventional 12V socket in a vehicle (with the right cable). This radio is designed to be as versatile as possible to operate. As I type this, I’m listening to Voice of America somewhere around 6MHz on the SW1 band. In fact, you can still listen to them today, consisting of foreign and native language programs broadcasting music, news, and even propaganda. With the fire roaring from the pit, and little other noise than the insects during a clear night, you could switch to the SW1 and SW2 bands and listen to the strong shortwave broadcasts emanating from around the world. “police band.” Until the recent changes to digital and secure communications standards, you could most likely hear your local police department on this band ranging from 145MHz to 175MHz.Ī radio like this would STILL be perfect for nighttime Summer and/or Fall backyard listening, or as something to do out in “the boonies” when camping.
#VINTAGE RHAPSODY MULTIBAND RECEIVER RADIO PORTABLE#
Like with the earlier days of portable multi-band radios, instead of the two bands you normally get on standard radios (AM and FM), you get a total of ten bands on the RY-610. Then again, it’s not all that uncommon to find consumer electronics marketed in this fashion. Through the “grapevine” in various online forums, it is also expected to be a clone of the Canadian marketed Venturer 2959-6. The same radio can be found as a Radio Shack SW-100 (catalog #12-649), first appearing in their 1993 catalog and last sold around 2003 (with a modified case design).
That is technically unconfirmed outside of the fact that it appears to be a clone of a radio sold under different brand names. This radio is suspected to have been first manufactured sometime in the mid to late 1980’s. I personally own this Rhapsody RY-610, and as one of the various heritages it is a part of, it was built with a design that had managed to last. But the same cannot be said for the Rhapsody RY-610 radio. But as with many popular fads, they can get squeezed out by newer entertainment technologies. Multi-band radios gave us far more choices for listening to the many frequencies filling the airwaves. Rhapsody RY-610įor those of us who felt “limited” by the popular listening options, we preferred using a multi-band radio. All we needed to do was turn the dial of a radio and move a sliding pointer along a band of numbers until we heard something we liked.
We had entertainment and listening options all up and down a frequency scale ranging from 550KHz – 1600KHz (AM), or 88MHz – 108MHz (FM). Back before streaming audio, and before the limitless listening options offered by the first commercially successful MP3 player (Diamond Rio), we listened to radio.
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