{"id":64782,"date":"2025-12-04T08:06:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=64782"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:06:31","slug":"ian-spots-a-snoopy-themed-shortwave-boombox-at-moma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/ian-spots-a-snoopy-themed-shortwave-boombox-at-moma\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Spots a Snoopy-Themed Shortwave Boombox at MOMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Ian Millett, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

On a recent visit to the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), in the kids section of the Design Store, I spotted a retro boombox with AM, FM, and SW bands. MOMA sells the Snoopy-themed BX-85 Bluetooth Cassette Player Boombox, by Retrospekt, for $99 to non-members.<\/p>\n

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The cassette player\u2019s door has a drawing of our favorite beagle Snoopy in his Joe Cool persona listening to a radio.\u00a0Peanuts creator Charles Shulz drew a strip published on July 12, 1981, that has Snoopy listening to a “bark” show (sic) on a tabletop radio. We don’t know the coverage of that comic strip radio.<\/p>\n

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The bandspread on the Retrospekt boombox shows it covers Shortwave 8 to 16 MHz and FM 88 to 108 MHz. Interestingly, the bandspread shows AM coverage from 530 to 1600 kHz. Even the coverage is retro.<\/p>\n

\nIan Millett N3CVA
\nBaltimore, MD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Ian Millett, who writes: On a recent visit to the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), in the kids section of the Design Store, I spotted a retro boombox with AM, FM, and SW bands. MOMA sells the Snoopy-themed BX-85 Bluetooth Cassette Player Boombox, by Retrospekt, for $99 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[836,3,305,43],"tags":[10957,10983,10982,25,10981],"class_list":["post-64782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ian-millett","tag-joe-cool","tag-peanuts","tag-shortwave-radios","tag-snoopy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gQS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12186,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/the-sony-cf-560s-a-shortwave-favorite-in-spain\/","url_meta":{"origin":64782,"position":0},"title":"The Sony CF-560s: a shortwave favorite in Spain","author":"Thomas","date":"February 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Jesus Leal, for contacting me and sharing photos of his Sony CF-560s shortwave receiver. 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