I bet the Zhongshan China Radio Museum in Zhongshan City, China has one in their collection as they are that rare. The Red Lantern 711 cleaned up quite nicely and works good. Nice addition to the museum Seth.
I believe the right-most (rear view) tube is the rectifier. The tall one next to it is the power output tube, possibly a beam tetrode 6P1. The short one 6N2, a dual triodes, is used as AM detector-audio preamplifier. The left most is a Chinese 6A2 (not the same as western 6A2) pentagrid (heptode) used as a oscillator and RF amp-mixer. The one between the two IF transformers is of course the IF amplifier. This radio at the time cost an average worker 2-3 months of pay.
Interesting, the oldest electronics made there I've seen were from the late 1980s. This is quite the opposite of what they usually make today, "dated" looks and simplistic technology (more like something from 1960) and very sturdy construction it seems. Probably still not too reliable but at least they made it easy to service. Definitely not meant to be thrown out after two years.
Right off the bat it resembles a Phillips Philetta. Philettas didn't use cloth for speaker grills the knob layout is slightly different, otherwise it looks very similar.
It looks like many of those big European radios from the early 60s, but the circuitry is somewhat more simple. Maybe a clone of an older Soviet set from that era?
BTW it is a 50+ year old radio. 73 to 83,93,03,13,23. I figured you were young, the way you speak, think and cut corners like the Old English thing instead of restoring the radio cabinets. Actually, in this case that is probably particle board with fake veneer, so it is probably the best you can do with this set. To be fair I have only watched a handful of videos, less than 25, but it seems like every time your go to cabinet restoration solution is a rag and Old English. Krazy that thing picked up a station from China on SW that quick.
You know it's okay to be critical but if you're going to be insulting then that deserves a response. First of all, don't insult my age. Second of all, don't insult my work. I'm doing all of these radios, free of charge on my time for the museum I volunteer at. I'm also buying all of the capacitors, audio cords, switches, and furniture products, paints, stains, varnishes and more. I use the exact same process on my personal radios. It works. Now I know a lot of the old guys will take any radio even if the finish is fine and just strip the crap out of it and put new varnish on it. ( See how that works?) And once you do that, it's no longer really an old radio. It's a radio that's been refinished. I'd much rather clean and try to preserve an original finish. And that's what I do. If that's not your thing then just leave it. I'm done with people being assholes.
Weird that it has English on it if they did not export them, Oh you are acknowledging this in real time. BTW you can get vintage russian tubes and/or Chinese tubes presently. Let's see what you need.
Tuning to the local Chinese language station was genius! Cheers
That's a really interesting radio! Definitely something for the museum to keep.
I bet the Zhongshan China Radio Museum in Zhongshan City, China has one in their collection as they are that rare. The
Red Lantern 711 cleaned up quite nicely and works good. Nice addition to the museum Seth.
That Radio is actually really nice looking, especially the grille cloth which seems to suit the design perfectly.
I never knew that this radio is from the early 1970's with late 1950's - early 1960's technology. That is cool!
Very nice set.
I believe the right-most (rear view) tube is the rectifier. The tall one next to it is the power output tube, possibly a beam tetrode 6P1. The short one 6N2, a dual triodes, is used as AM detector-audio preamplifier. The left most is a Chinese 6A2 (not the same as western 6A2) pentagrid (heptode) used as a oscillator and RF amp-mixer. The one between the two IF transformers is of course the IF amplifier. This radio at the time cost an average worker 2-3 months of pay.
Interesting, the oldest electronics made there I've seen were from the late 1980s.
This is quite the opposite of what they usually make today, "dated" looks and simplistic technology (more like something from 1960) and very sturdy construction it seems. Probably still not too reliable but at least they made it easy to service. Definitely not meant to be thrown out after two years.
The oddest part of this set is that the dial background plastic is spring mounted, but fixed in a fixed position that doesn't really move.
Right off the bat it resembles a Phillips Philetta. Philettas didn't use cloth for speaker grills the knob layout is slightly different, otherwise it looks very similar.
It looks like many of those big European radios from the early 60s, but the circuitry is somewhat more simple. Maybe a clone of an older Soviet set from that era?
List of the tubes that were in it are actually Russian type tubes. So probably the design is closer to being a Russian clone than a European clone
cool radio
For fun I ran a picture of the fuse cap through Google Translator. As you would expect, it says FUSE.
BTW it is a 50+ year old radio. 73 to 83,93,03,13,23. I figured you were young, the way you speak, think and cut corners like the Old English thing instead of restoring the radio cabinets. Actually, in this case that is probably particle board with fake veneer, so it is probably the best you can do with this set. To be fair I have only watched a handful of videos, less than 25, but it seems like every time your go to cabinet restoration solution is a rag and Old English. Krazy that thing picked up a station from China on SW that quick.
You know it's okay to be critical but if you're going to be insulting then that deserves a response. First of all, don't insult my age. Second of all, don't insult my work. I'm doing all of these radios, free of charge on my time for the museum I volunteer at. I'm also buying all of the capacitors, audio cords, switches, and furniture products, paints, stains, varnishes and more.
I use the exact same process on my personal radios. It works. Now I know a lot of the old guys will take any radio even if the finish is fine and just strip the crap out of it and put new varnish on it. ( See how that works?) And once you do that, it's no longer really an old radio. It's a radio that's been refinished. I'd much rather clean and try to preserve an original finish. And that's what I do. If that's not your thing then just leave it. I'm done with people being assholes.
Gotta be some crazy story about how it got over here
Weird that it has English on it if they did not export them, Oh you are acknowledging this in real time. BTW you can get vintage russian tubes and/or Chinese tubes presently. Let's see what you need.
nice job on the Chinese radio Mr. Radio. congrats on 6k subs 👍
Damn your AM band there is full of some horrible hash!