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Ancient old Radio's: worth Restoring ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Family_Dog" data-source="post: 197310" data-attributes="member: 82"><p>Here is an old Philips 930A radio that I have. It was given to me by an old school friend, it used to belong to his grandmother.</p><p></p><p>Pics are not of my actual unit but from the 'net. My unit has a ding on one side of the Bakelite-material cabinet, not sure if this can be fixed or not. One of the E438 valves (which means 4v filament, gain of 38) has an open circuit filament and I suppose I am unlikely to ever get one of those so I have toyed with possibly by-passing the audio stage with a simple IC audio amplifier.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://historische-elektronik.piranho.de/Hyperlink%20F/930A-Dateien/image015.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://historische-elektronik.piranho.de/Hyperlink%20F/930A-Dateien/image016.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Valve complement: 2 x E438. 1 x B443, 1 x C443. It covers the MW & LW bands and dates from around 1930 (although I thought it was older than this).</p><p></p><p>Interestingly, here is a youtube link to a video featuring this radio. Note the reasonably high-quality AM sound, marred by possible fluorescent-light interference. </p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=ZA&v=zQsHOZSNO1s" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=ZA&v=zQsHOZSNO1s</a></p><p></p><p>So this is a projection waiting for "one day"! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>-F_D</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Family_Dog, post: 197310, member: 82"] Here is an old Philips 930A radio that I have. It was given to me by an old school friend, it used to belong to his grandmother. Pics are not of my actual unit but from the 'net. My unit has a ding on one side of the Bakelite-material cabinet, not sure if this can be fixed or not. One of the E438 valves (which means 4v filament, gain of 38) has an open circuit filament and I suppose I am unlikely to ever get one of those so I have toyed with possibly by-passing the audio stage with a simple IC audio amplifier. [IMG]http://historische-elektronik.piranho.de/Hyperlink%20F/930A-Dateien/image015.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://historische-elektronik.piranho.de/Hyperlink%20F/930A-Dateien/image016.jpg[/IMG] Valve complement: 2 x E438. 1 x B443, 1 x C443. It covers the MW & LW bands and dates from around 1930 (although I thought it was older than this). Interestingly, here is a youtube link to a video featuring this radio. Note the reasonably high-quality AM sound, marred by possible fluorescent-light interference. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=ZA&v=zQsHOZSNO1s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=ZA&v=zQsHOZSNO1s[/url] So this is a projection waiting for "one day"! ;) -F_D [/QUOTE]
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