AM Radio, Back in the day it was Great.

1370rod · Mar 4, 2013

My son has been campaining to update the radio in the 870. I am stubborn and said no lets leave this tractor as original as possible. Soon there will be none of these to be had. It works, we can listen to the weather and tunes, what else do you need. Back when I was preping new 70 series we always installed the AM-FM version of this radio. Anyone else got a working AM?

casecollectorsc · Mar 4, 2013

Didn't have anything that new, but when I started farming in 68 tractor radios were pretty new. On the 64 western special I built a radio holder out of 5" pipe down to 1 1/4 to hold the Automatic tractor radio. Heavy pipe kept the vibration down. AM only. Listened to KOMA 1520 Oklahoma City at nite. Later, same radio in the 1030 had an adapter to plug in to get FM.

mattwillson · Mar 4, 2013

I got the factory Alpine repaired in my western star because a fella can't buy a cassette deck anymore. The truck came with a cd changer and I still have tapes. what's next huh?

rich10e · Mar 4, 2013

That brings a lot of memories,daytime you were kind of stuck with local or WCCO, but at night WLS Chicago KOMA Ok City,WOAI San Antonio lots of good ones at night!

Case Nutty 1660 · Mar 4, 2013

I listened to 100,000 watt KOMA also, only place at that time to hear rock music here ahh the good ole days

Straw Boss · Mar 4, 2013

Memories for me too. Every time my tinnitus starts in I think of the hours spent in a loud 1030 cab with the radio cranked to the max just to hear it. My right ear is worse than the left because of the radio being mounted in the upper right corner of the cab. Funny thing was if you were not in the tractor and the wind was right, you'd swear you could hear the radio a quarter mile away but you couldn't hear it in the cab.
Heck, you couldn't hear the tractor running a quarter mile away but you could hear that radio!

jlwin · Mar 4, 2013

I remember as a teen (90's) listening to AM 1000 out of Chicago in our 2290 while pulling a 14' cook offset disk! It would only pull in a couple of stations on fm and I wasn't partial to them. I added an external antenna and could pick up almost anything I wanted!

ADB-Ia · Mar 4, 2013

I remember more the fender mount radio that you flipped the lid down to protect the radio from the weather. You had to crank it up so loud to hear, the whole neighborhood knew what you were listening to. That and straight pipes have made hearing aid centers successful in rural Iowa.

case1570 · Mar 4, 2013

When we were kids and were working at the shop if we worked hard we could go up in the attic and pick out a pocket AM radio. They were left over from a Case promotion. They came complete with the battery and strap. I would hang it on the bed post and fall a sleep to the static.
Brian Case1570

chuck machinist · Mar 4, 2013

WLS IN CHICAGO CHANNEL 89 US 30 DRAG STRIP BE THERE!
Dad built one from a junk car and had it mounted in a wood box from wood he had left over from making cattle gates.U know which one im talking about John?

Gene Dotson · Mar 4, 2013

Worked many nights with my 700 and 800. I had the fender mounted Automatic radio. I always wore headphones when working. Kept the tractor noise down, easy to hear the stations and a big thing for me was that it kept the bugs out of my ears. A habit carried forward to my flying and I still have good hearing.

Gene

Dalet · Mar 4, 2013

570 WNAX was my radio station of choice. Still is when I am in the 4430.

fixerupper · Mar 4, 2013

Where do you dock the Ipod or whatever they're called? I think you 'dock' an Ipod, don't you?Jim

jon f mn · Mar 4, 2013

AH WCCO 830, milked a lot of cows listening to that. Or KSTP 1500 for some country. They are talk radio now.

oldtanker · Mar 4, 2013

LOL, growing up as a city boy in NJ I got my first radio for Christmas when I was 8. Dad only listened to country and there was only one out of Hoboken NJ. He told me it was the only station that the radio would pick up. At 8 having complete faith in my father I didn't find out about rock stations for almost a year!

Rick

ss55 · Mar 4, 2013

Only listen to sports and local news on glorious AM radio anymore.

In the early 1970's WOW 590 Omaha, WLS 890 Chicago, KIOA 940 Des Moines, and KLS? 710 Kansas City were favorites. WHO 1040 Des Moines was always on in the farrowing barn to calm the sows. We always had to tune the radio back to dad's station when we were done with a tractor or a car, the pickups never had radios until 1975.

Midnights Friday and Saturday nights Bleeker Street was on 1100 out of Little Rock, AK. Funny the things you remember sometimes.

McKerrow630 · Mar 5, 2013

Well, as most of yeah know I spent most my teen years on the seat of a 700 plow'en and choppen corn. No radio just the sound of the 700 plow'in 4 -14's into the nite. Ahhhh the sound and smells of that 700 hard at work!!!! That was my tractor radio. Hee Hee

Kow Farmer · Mar 5, 2013

Rod,
I can agree with your son, LOL.
I spent many nights in an good ol' 870 my neighbor had listening to WLS out of Chicago into the wee hours of the night. Ah, the good ol' days?
Kow Farmer (Kurt)

Pastor John · Mar 5, 2013

Sure Chuck left over 2x6,s Got kind of hard to hear along those power lines Hi Hi.

We thought we had entered a new century when that Am Radio went on the old DC!

Ande · Mar 5, 2013

Can remember cultivating sunflowers with the "Black Knight 1070" and having that radio nice a loud,air condtioning running,wow,much better then the old "1031",but it only lasted a short time,then back to the "1031"

jic · Mar 5, 2013

anybody remember when case came out with the am-fm stereo with 8-track for the 70 series ? had 2 speakers you had to mount and it came with head cleaner. it didn't work, still ate a lot 8-track tapes. just like they did with the cassette tapes on the 90& 94 series. to much dust.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 5, 2013

someone stole the radio and the batterrry cover .30yrs ago..corn planing time .. left the 430 for a couple hours in the field , came back with another load of fertilizer , radio was probably taken by the neighborhood rip off patrol that was just starting to get out of hand ,, 3 of them ended up doin time , and today they aint worth a s--t

Ande · Mar 5, 2013

(quoted from post at 07:05:08 03/05/13) Can remember cultivating sunflowers with the "Black Knight 1070" and having that radio nice and loud,air condtioning running,wow,much better then the old "1031",but it only lasted a short time,then back to the "1031",yea the radio station was Winnipeg Man. CKRC 630,so your radio is close Rod!

Case Nutty 1660 · Mar 5, 2013

I know they were pretty new in spring of 1976 as I put one in my 1370 before I left our dealership with it, the tape player on mine always worked fine and so did FM but it would blow out the AM side when it went to FM my Dad was pi$$'d over that as he hated FM as their was no country FM stations here at that time I still have the housing for it here but the radio is long gone

Jimmie D. Phelps · Mar 5, 2013

I wished I would have worn headphones. Didn't, even when flying until the 90's. To late lost a lot of hearing. The pictire of the LA , it has a radio mounted on the fender with a old old can to cover it at night. Had a radio on or in most of my tractors since than. On my third radio in my 2390. plane picture , me in 1952

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