It’s been a couple of years since the aerial broke off this radio.
Once upon a time, I would have gone to great lengths to repair it but my geographical location and changing technology have pretty much put a permanent hold on any effort to fix this.
You see, the radio still performs just fine on AM/MW with its internal antenna; it does relatively well on FM even with no antenna.
It’s on shortwave where the missing aerial would be most noticed — and I’m saddened to report I’m normally not missing a thing.
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