I AM selling those trustworthy and enduringly durable - but grandfatherly - transistor radio for the last five years, in our province. The only brand I trade and rely on is REM'S. Its called the APPLE model, the chassis is made of lawanit wood and molded plastic. Runs on four D Batteries, and has a tiny LED light when you raised the volume by 45. This is the very archetype of those trusted, good old transistors that my family and generation has used everyday since the 1960s till today. Rem's qualifiable boast of its radio's manufacturing goodness is that the frequency reach extends to as far as Romblon. That means the radio could still picked up the NCR major stations to as far as Romblon, Mindoro or Masbate. The wonderful thing about it is that the "static" is highly manageable, or barely there (the static disturbance and the "interlapping" frequency where two consecutive stations cancels each other out is what distinguishes a superior radio from a poorly made one), the four batteries could endure to as much as four months of daily use, and runs exclusively on DC power, no AC plug.
Its a cause for consternation, though, that many folks especially the younger ones are turned off from buying my Rem's because it runs exclusively on batteries, but I learned from looking that AC power is the very factor that wrought static disturbance to the unit, the plug also inhibits the radio from being positioned to any angle to capture the best signal. Hence, if I wanted to sell radios at a faster turnover, the Rem's will never give a lucrative margin. But because I sticked steadfastly to the ideal that there are people who still prefers this old-type technology (much like a few audiophiles maintains this affection for tubes and vinyl), I knew I'd cater more to the oldtimer souls and the ones who couldn't sleep well anymore.
The Rem's is for sale any season - rain or shine - at OHM's and AMPERE electronic shops at Raon, Quiapo. I get it at wholesale.
