Mambo vipi?

[djfisher]

Hey y'all - that was a bit of swahili in my topic.

Mambo = "things"
Vipi = "how are"

I live in Arusha, Tanzania. yeah - East Africa. And I've just bought a Clairtone 7890 boombox. I have someone bringing the monster in a packed box to me when they come to visit from Montreal Canada in the next month.

Can't wait.

I've been wanting a real boombox since I was a kid wathcing the bigger kids at the school in 1984 or so bring their rolled up linoleum and boomboxes out to breakdance.

My parents let me use a beat up panasonic thing but never had the punch.

So here I am so many years later, getting one. finally.

I'm hoping that it takes the place of my sound dock portable bose (which actually sounds really sweet). But in order to replace, I'll need to do some work on making it portable.

I'm thinking I'll rubber band together a bunch of cell phone lion batteries together and rig it up with a charger so its powered like the sounddock bose unit - ready to detach and go!

Thats about enough of that.

I sometimes wonder how many other Conion AKAs there may be in East Africa - my guess is not many.

Over.

 

[Northerner]

Welcome to the forum! Not sure we have many (any?) members living in Africa so welcome to the fold. Yeh Bose stuff sounds great but I'd rather have the Clairtone!!

 

[im_alan_partridge]

Jumbo

Welcome to the site

 

[Fatdog]

I can definitely say that you are the first member from Tanzania. Welcome aboard, and congratulations on the 7980!!

 

[devol-toni]

 

[djfisher]

Thanks crew. I often wonder if in this expanse of East Africa, there arent one or two massive boomboxes floating around.

I'm excited to have an excuse to start digging for tapes the way I used to dig for vinyl. Like India, there are still alot of places that sell cassette tapes for musical pleasure.

Any tips on where to look for how to get an efficient charging system for my clairtone?

Somewhere I came across someone who "inbuilt" a charger system with nimh d cells - so that when plugged in it was charging the cells and then could unplug and go -

Any pointers to resources would be great!

Thanks again guys - will send pics from Africa when I get er in my hands.

 

[djfisher]

Devol-toni - is so funny, you are the second person I've heard from in 24 hours from Skopje. I met a guy online names Damjan who helped out at radio Kanal 103 http://www.kanal103.com.mk/ and set up their streaming capabilities!

 

[redbenjoe]

thanks for finding us and joining

 

[devol-toni]

Devol-toni - is so funny, you are the second person I've heard from in 24 hours from Skopje. I met a guy online names Damjan who helped out at radio Kanal 103 http://www.kanal103.com.mk/ and set up their streaming capabilities!

yeah, you can find us on every corner on the net