This thing ate batteries like they were going out of style.

I used it on my paper route, both morning at 5AM and after school at 4PM. I would put it in my canvas bags with the papers I was delivering, crank the volume up and have the entertaining talk and music from the AM stations while I worked. {Aside: I still listen to radio during my morning walks. I have a Sansa Clip that plays FM only - as well as a glob of MP3 music - but I mostly listen to KTRH 88.7 NPR - to get the ‘voice of the liberal press’.}

I got complaints about the loud radio in the morning and had to revert to using an earpiece.

On KTRM in the morning was the Gordon Baxter show. He was a character. famous in Beaumont and a lot of fun to listen to. He was a pilot and I later read his columns in Flying Magazine, The Bax Seat…probably available on the Flying Magazine website. The column about dropping a cat from an airplane is a classic.

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