Drake R8. Review of Shortwave Receivers
The Drake R8 series of shortwave receivers were introduced in 1991 until 2005 or thereabouts as R8, R8A, R8B and R8E. The latter being a version of the R8. Each of these different versions...
The Drake R8 series of shortwave receivers were introduced in 1991 until 2005 or thereabouts as R8, R8A, R8B and R8E. The latter being a version of the R8. Each of these different versions...
Grundig began with the opening of a store called Fuerth, Grundig and Wurzer in 1930 in Nuremberg, Germany. In 1945 Max Grundig built and sold two testing devices, the “Novatest” and “Tubatest” – the...
As received, this National NC-100 was in a very sorry state. Several knobs were missing, as were most of the valves (and those that were there were not the correct ones). The set had...
I am often asked if I can replace a turntable having a piezo cartridge with a modern stereo turntable using a magnetic phono cartridge. I usually reply with a qualified “Yes but you need...
The Barlow -Wadley receiver was made in South Africa in the 1970s. It uses the Wadley drift-cancelling loop principle first used commercially in the Racal RA-17 radio receivers. Dr TL Wadley. The originator, used...
The Hallicrafters SX-130 was made from 1965 to 1969. It is a single conversion superhet covering 0.56 to 31.5 MHz in 4 bands. It is a single superhet with an intermediate frequency (I.F.) of...
The Nordmende Globetraveller III was a high quality radio made in the late ’60s/ early ’70s. It receives LW/MW and FM, as well as 11 shortwave broadcast bands as follows: (1.5 – 3.5 MHz...
Philips was founded in Eindhoven in the Netherlands in 1891 to meet the growing demand for light bulbs as a result of the commercialisation of electricity. In 1926 Philips introduced the miniwatt range of...
The Roberts R200 and R300 date from 1960 to 1964 and exist in several versions. They are popular models because of their style. There are fairly identical looking modern Roberts radios, featuring FM and...
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