Stranger Things' radio hardware gets a Geerling Engineering reality check
The channel's broadcast-tech shelf also includes a radio-station network rebuild and a trip inside an NHL production truck.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
How Accurate is the Stranger Things Radio Station?
WSQK, "The Squawk," gives Geerling Engineering something more concrete to inspect than supernatural mysteries: the equipment behind Stranger Things' retro radio station. With no new uploads this week, "How Accurate is the Stranger Things Radio Station?" is the channel's most active video, approaching 100,000 views roughly ten months after publication.
The review considers the studio, engineering shop and remote van, asking how convincingly the show recreates an American station of the 1980s. Its chapters also make room for Dustin's engineering advice and a rather less fictional concern: why energized broadcast towers are not something to climb.
Real radio infrastructure supplies the next catch-up option. "Rebuilding my Dad's Radio Station Network (Part 1)" begins with testing in a lab before moving into ceiling cabling and hardware setup. Ubiquiti provided equipment and cable for the series.
Then there is "How instant are instant replays, really? Inside the truck at an NHL game," which goes behind the scenes at a St. Louis Blues game. Camera framing with Mike Munaco, the booth with Chris Kerber and replay operations put people alongside the technology, rather than treating the production truck as a box of gadgets.
The channel added about 1,000 subscribers over the week, despite the upload pause. Daily viewing is currently well below its usual level. Nearby DIY and building channels WayUp Media and Wyrmwood Vlogs had larger viewing weeks, while 3DSage was quieter. For Geerling Engineering, the most active corner of the shelf remains broadcasting: fictional radio, real radio and the machinery that brings hockey home.
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The videos drawing views on Geerling Engineering right now
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- Geerling Engineering
- Subscribers
- 138,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 29,463
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💡 Test your knowledge
What is the name of the radio station examined in Geerling Engineering's Stranger Things review?
The video's description identifies the Stranger Things station as WSQK, nicknamed "The Squawk."




