you go into the back of some radios and and cut
certain wire, a 'mute' wire, to free up the fine tuning so it's easier to scan..
he describes which radios can be hacked this way...
besides the sony walkman or an ordinary one....mentions
certain 'hackables'....
you can use an ordinary radio without hacking into it...if
you have good fingers and hands that don't cramp and tire easily...
manually scan back and forth on the am or shortwave frequencies...
gonna check out my many old boomboxes to see if their radios
work for this, too....
don't know about that paint, DB....wasn't in the hacking instructions
of the book....