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G0FTD wrote:-
> From : G0FTD
> To : OLDSET@WW
> Type/status : B$
> Date/time : 15-Jul 16:25
> BID (MID) : 080179195PZT
> Message # : 254
> Title : Interest in vintage radios
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> Path: !KD4YAL!WA7V!DB0RES!ON0AR!HS1LMV!CX2SA!ZL2BAU!GB7PZT!
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:35:46 +0000
> From: g0ftd@gb7pzt.#24.gbr.eu (Andy)
> To: oldset@ww
> Subject: Interest in vintage radios
>
>
> David's (G4EBT) recent bulletins on restoring old equipment and broadcast
> sets has given me something else to think about other than playing HF
> radio ;-)
>
> David has reminded me of radiograms.
>
> I've never owned one, they are only memories to me and something that
> were more something my grandparents had.
>
> But I've recently been thinking about acquiring one just for the pleasure
> of having one.
>
> I wonder if your interest David extends to the huge radiograms ?
>
> They really do look gorgeous.
>
> (I suspect that they attract collectors prices these days too).
>
>
>
> 73 - Andy, G0FTD @ GB7PZT
Hi Andy,
Whilst never personally owning a radiogram, from my earliest recollections
from about the age of four, we seemed to always have one in the family
household. At age four I used the family radiogram to play my records,
78RPM only, of course. This was 1951. We had a few 78RPM only units over
the years. They were magnificently constructed pieces of furniture.
Most of the units we had housed the radio and record player side-by-side,
each behind their own hinge-out panel. The radio dial was at an angle of
approximately 45 degrees when opened out. The record player was on runners
and moved forward as the door was opened.
One unit we owned housed the record player above the radio section. This
was about 1955.
In later years around the early 1960's, units were avaiable that also
housed a TV. By this time the "furniture" quality had deteriorated
considerably, and high quality veneered timber gave way to plastic,
imitation veneer.
Who could forget how "good" a single 12" woofer sounded when mounted in a
decent cabinet and driven by a single 6V6 output pentode to the dizzy
heights of 4W RMS? Far from hi-fi but we thought it was wonderful. Listen
to that bass! They had 2 ohm voice coils back then, but they were
permanent magnet speakers. Who remembers when the magnetising current for
the speaker came from it being the smoothing choke in the radio's HT
supply? I'm not old, I just read a lot of magazines :-)
I remember one unit owned by a cousin that featured an AWA (Amalgamated
Wireless Australia, later to become Amalgamated Wireless Australasia)
tuner that boasted seven bands and two RF stages.
Cheers ... Ray
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