Also love radios, not sure which I love more, radios or cars (of course my family but here i am not talking about people only objects).
Radio for me (forget all this wireless malarkey) has been a passion of mine since I was a child and as soon as I learned which end of a soldering iron was the business end I was building radios, all kind, electronics projects too, all sorts from CB radios, HF receivers, disco equipment, alarm systems, some worked, many did not.
I bought, begged, borrowed and stole (well pilfered from scrap bins) any components I could and just built things and then tried to make them work.
The results were often not too spectacular, except the Sound to Light converter which lit up the room in the wrong way. Thats what comes of mixing 9VDC and 240VAC.
When CB was first introduced to the UK I built one, spent weeks calling out before I realised the transmitter did not work. To protect my amazing creations I built alarm systems, these had the habit of going off at 3am for no particular reason, but it was fun to leap out of bed and spend ten minutes fiddling with the control box beside my bed trying to work out if and where an "intruder" may be.
I built my own mobile disco (I was a part time though pretty useless DJ evidenced by the fact that I only got free jobs). This worked! I built a valve amp, transistorised mixer complete with cross-fade, echo on the mic and all the latest gizmos, although one night at a friends party one very large capacitor made a spectacular exit from the chassis leaving the room decorated in what looked like cotton wool and silver foil.
I did many gigs upgrading to a MOSFET amplifier which was amazingly loud and only took one person to carry it and added a strobe made partially from an old car headlamp (they were mostly round in those days). Finally I hung up my headphones when I got married but it was fun, made a few people laugh and even fewer dance. BTW I used to lug all this around in my mini 282GCG, I have no idea how I got decks, speakers, lights, records, all in the back and two of us in the front.
This interest in electronics and radio in particular led me to get an introduction to two-way radio. For more on this click on the tab.