Mitchell Technical Institute |
| 821 N Capital St |
| Mitchell, SD 57301 |
| General Phone: 605-995-3024 |
| Financial Aid Phone: 605-995-3025 |
| Sector: Public, 2-year |
| Classification: Associates Colleges |
| Website: www.mti.tec.sd.us |
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Retiree enjoys repairing antique radios for use, heirlooms - Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Article Published: 10/17/05 Chet Graber repairs tube-type radios - those ornate wooden boxes with fancy dials that brought news and weather from around the world into the homes of a generation of prairie people.Today, most are stored away in attics and basements. A few show up in antique shops.Production of tube-type radios ended in 1969. They were very durable, says Graber, 64, retired telecommunications department head at Mitchell Technical Institute. The tubes seldom wore out, but their resistors and transformers did. ADVERTISMENT Starting first parse .Build 0: 0 ms (Misc) .Build 3: 2608 ms (Article) .Parsing macro archive_1letter ..Build 0: 0 ms (Misc) .Completed macro archive_1letter .Parsing macro sitecatalyst ..Build 3: 343 ms (Article) .Completed macro sitecatalyst .Build 9: 567 ms (Content) . NewsList: 4934ms .Build 16: 4934 ms (NewsList) Retrieve categories: 11552ms Read templates: 1789ms Read objects: 6069ms Scripts: 746ms Starting second parse .Build 0: 761 ms (Misc) Retrieve categories: 0ms Read templates: 0ms Read objects: 0ms Scripts: 0ms Read cache: 433ms -->