Enthralling, captivating the list goes on lol your posts are allways a joy to watch .and I learn something new every time . On your last post you said about the run of bad luck with your phone .How about having a celium rectifyer taking a dump in the living room when showing your dinner guests your restored valve radio .sleeping in the spare room at the moment. Kind regards from over the pond
I started with these kind of radios too... well my start isnt that "deluxe" :D I have my fun with a lot of GRUNDIGs like CityBoy, MicroBoy, YachtBoy etc... mostly because of these rather "stupid" names. This Nordmende (i have a few tube and transistor-sets) is truly a nice addition for any collector!
I love this little radio and the way that the features of a good car radio (compact, durable, clean loud audio) work to make a better portable. Great job on the plastic detailing!
I have the North American version of your Nordmende radio, the Globetraveler Jr. I've actually got three identical sets and hope someday to make one fully working and restored one. they were sold around 1966-67. Thank you for posting the video.
Yes, I agree. Really a lot of features packed into such a small radio for the time. The US version goes up to 108 MHz. Also, most if not all Globetraveler Jr's have the dark green/black "caviar" colored case. I'm not sure if they officially sold multiple colors for radios destined for the US. @@electronicsoldandnew
I just bought another one of these radios that is "not working" but appears to be in better than average physical condition. I wish Nordmende had sold them in the US with the wood veneer case like yours.
I'm fairly sure it is a vinyl plastic covering over a pressed wood housing and not real leather. None of my radios have that aroma that my dad's old Mercedes Benz had :).
This radio looks a lot like the Schaub Lorenz radios of the same era; they sometimes have the same mechanical problems, but they are very nice sets! And your video is excellent!
I was kind of hoping this would be your next project. As much as I love tubes, this one just has a really unique charm to it. Look forward to following this through with you.
Lovely Work Manuel a Lot Nicer Radio Than My Tandburg TP41 But Just Like My Tandburg Not Very Service Friendly Unlike An Old Acker Radio he he Think it Uses a Pilot Lamp Just Like My Tandburg For The Dial Face Too But I Could Be Wrong Will Be Watching Part 2 To See How You Bring This Old Lady Back To Her Previous Beauty !! Regards mike.
Nice find! Haha, I actually like the "cheap" transistorized radios of the seventies. Build quality got somewhat worse at times, but ICs and PCB connectors really tidied up the designs. Really reliable and easy to work on - but if an IC fails it's often not that easy to find. Usually it's the power amp ICs. I had such fail twice. For a LOEWE i found a drop-in replacement. On a Nordemende, I had to bodge in a modern chip on a perfboard. Works though. Grundig also used ICs, but they had discrete Ge (AC 128 etc.) output stages until around 1980!
Nice radio, great work! I wonder, should that tone control flex and bend the components attached below it? Somehow I doubt this is correct. - I see the Norwegian factory Radionette must have watched the construction of these radios closely (imagine it must be this way round :) ), several models of the time (Explorer, Kurér 1001among others) are nearly identical in case construction. My Explorer (great radio!) once fell on the floor, and the bottom plate broke into around 20 small and bigger plastic pieces.. I at last got a junk radio to take parts from.. It then got the name "exploder"..
Hoping your Wife is recovering from covid 19, This radio looks so much like the Beolit 1000 of which i have one , still working good after 40 +years , Oh Murphy sends his best wishes he lives next door , Take care hoping to be in Funchal later this year .
She’s still not completely recovered but is improving. Strangely enough I didn’t get it and I did not isolate from her 😊 As for Murphy: we all have a neighbour like that 😊
@@electronicsoldandnewGood to hear she on the mend ,When one lives in Ireland as i do there is NO shortage of Murphy,s , it is bed time 22/50 hrs , take care .
Fantastic radio! It looks very complex compared to analogues. My friend wants to purchase an even more complex version - NORDMENDE GLOBETROTTER AMATEUR. I hope my restless hands reach it too)
The AM dial pointer looked like it didn't go all the way to the left Is the problem with the tuning cap as simple as just moving the pointer a bit to the left on the string? I was like screaming "Dont remove the main board, remove the battery compartment and the speaker" ☺ These radios are buildt around the Main board. So it's almost impossible to remove. 👍
I must have heard the screams 😊 I always try and get around something as drastic as that, but I was getting really worked here 😊 The tuning cap has some problem besides the pointer possibility, but I haven’t started that issue yet. We had elections for the national parliament today, so this evening is a TV speculation marathon to see what type of government were going to have.
"I" forgive you for going with this one after "promising" to do the tube (valve) radio next, but it appears that "Murphy" hasn't. You really have a number of challenges in this one. I am interested to find out how you resolve them. Especially the tuning capacitor issue. I have been trying to visualize just what could be stopping the capacitor from continuing to close so that it is fully meshed. So far no luck. That entire tuning system might be worthy of a video of its own. Is there a pictorial of how the unit is assembled? That might help a lot with the tuning mechanism if there is one. You did a fantastic job with the bottom plastic battery compartment! I had a suggestion that I was going to make, but it turned out that you had a method of your own that worked wonders. After you resolve the tuning capacitor meshing issue, I feel that an alignment is really necessary. That is something I am interested in seeing on this radio. It will probably be very straightforward to perform, but still, I would like to see what I think will be a considerable improvement. Although it is a rare occurrence, it is still possible that you could have a defective Germanium transistor. If you do, what are your plans for replacement? I would imagine that you would have to make some component value changes to make things work properly. You know, with that connector on the bottom that was used in a vehicle, you could make an adaptor that you could "plug" the radio into that would provide coverage throughout your entire house! I appreciate your sharing these videos with us! Thank you very much!
The tuning cap definitely promises to be a challenge. The service manual is quite detailed, but not on the mechanical aspects. If a transistor is defective, I think I can get some from the supplier in Ireland. This one will definitely require an alignment.
Great job on the bottom battery compartment! Looks like a NOS replacement. How did you clean up the battery contacts? I was sure you'd have to replace them. I'm lookin forward to the alignment video.
I was wondering, when you described the car connector and the switch that would be pushed when the radio was inserted into the car holder, you mentioned the antenna as well as power and speakers. It appears that the mini whip you connect to the side antenna connector works independently from that bottom connector, so you can always connect a better antenna to the side, correct? We had a Blaupunkt portable in the 70's about that side with a car sled adapter to fit under the dash. Huge thing but it worked in a similar way. The sound of that thing was also awesome. This Nordmende really has a humongous speaker and will sound fantastic too.
Don't know if this is already mentioned, but at 4:21, you notice the bottom alignment plate of the variable condenser is bended in. Isn't this the reason it won't turn further?
Nice radio! It truly squeezed to the maximum the limited performance of early germanium transistors. Btw: that abrupt sound change you atribute to the tuning capacitor shorting, it does not seem to affect the other bands? If so, to me it looks like the IF amp or the converter is "taking off" at that point, I mean: it starts a spurious uncontrolled oscillation, by internal feedback favoured by that capacitor setting picking up some internal signal. Could be caused by misalignment.
Nice dirty beast. I think I saw that the two white plastic gears at top and bottom of that tuning mechanism have cracked around the screw holes. If that is so, I use to use steel wire windings around it ( .1 mm), e.g. the steel where tiny springs are made of, and a two component epoxy in the crack and on the sanded surface with the wire. If you have a good stretchless polyester sawing wire it could also do the job.Acetone is absolute the best for degreasing, IF this plastic can stand it of course, but I think so.
Manuel, I'm sorry you two are confined to quarters, but on the bright side you got a lot done on the receiver. Great job on the battery compartment, I think you misrepresented the ease of replacing those capacitors it didn't look that easy. Hope your better half is not Suffering any side effects. If you want to see a cleaning project look at x-ray Tony's latest.
Confinement without serious symptoms, and with radios to restore, is actually …. quite pleasant 😊 I am watching Tony’s video. I need to get an u/s cleaner. It works wonders.
I am sorry but you are very much mistaken about the last 1 uF capacitor, it is sandwiched between the IF/switches board and the main board. Have a good look on the service manual. It is drawn right there. And it is right, it is connected to the U /FM switch. I am fixing the same model right now, just look at it!
You’re absolutely right. I must have had my head on backwards when I tested it. So I missed the one cap, but fortunately this little guy has been in regular use for all the time since I restored it, and it works really well. Thanks for the info. I’ve got a couple more of these that I may get working on sometime soon, so the info does help.
@@electronicsoldandnew No problem, glad to help... here the caps were more or less okay, in mine at least. But I have a Globetraveler from 1965 which was totally dead due to small singal audio caps... and also for the future, if you'll get to restore one, the pesky ITT Schaub Lorenz Touring Series had some oily cracked caps of some 10-100 nF hidden like that as well. The Touring 30, 40, 50, 60. The 70 and up used better ones that stood the test of time. They are ROE caps, dark red ...brick colored, and I've found them also in some Telefunken Bajazzo radios from late 60s-early 70s.
I went through a phase when I bought quite a few of these small radios, and if I remember correctly, I have at least one of those pesky ones in my store room. Thanks for the warning.
@@electronicsoldandnew No problem. They do sound really good though. Reception is not stellar, but the fact that Schaub lorenz made their own speakers for their radios sure did help them in the long run. My favorites are the "weekend" ones, smaller versions of the Tourings, with a 9,5x15 cm speaker instead of the 13x18 the big brother got. I have the Weekend 70, 80 and the export, 900. 9 Germanium transistors inside and they sound like a portable boombox, the bass they put out is amazing for their size, sweet little things, i love them :)) . Posted some here on youtube but unfortunately they are only show off videos, I'm an amateur when it comes to making videos, no time for it... Anyway, that's it for my rant, good luck in your future endeavors!
Hi Manuel. That's a beautiful looking radio. Does the tone control have a dual control were as you turn the control to alter the treble, and then push and turn the control to select the bass adjustment?. They certainly crammed a lot of component's into a small space. Cheers Chris.
So, its beautiful, fragile, very sensitive and it got your full atention. Isnt your wife jelous? :D By the way, if you plug your miniwoop antena to your guitar amp, will it pickup radio stations?
That's not what's going on, your wife wants that radio :) I know it! People sometimes hear radio stations bleed into their guitar signal path. I wonder what happens when you actually plug an antena in the input. Should sound better than my guitar playing :D
It really seems like nothing is ever easy. :-) By the way: Can somebody explain to this noob why output transformers are a good thing (like "sound very good") in a transistorised amp? They were in designs until the late 1960's and then disappeared. Just because of the weight (and cost), or did someone invent a better power amp design?
The transformer version was definitely more expensive to produce, so that was a factor. The sound is “fuller” and more harmonious in my opinion, and In definitely not an audiophile 😊
The later, (pseudo-)complimentary output stage design is definitely more efficient and has a more broadbanded response, as the small transformer in a classic push-pull is pretty much a high pass filter far into the audible range. It's a matter of taste though, and the latter is easier to work on. In tube curcuits, the transformers are much bigger so that's less of a problem, and it adds some (pleasant) coloration to the sound.
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That is a nice looking radio Manuel, the wooden case got me, I assumed it was plastic wood at first, this should come up very nice.
It has 😊 Posting final video later today. I went at it “Tipton Style” to ensure that the case came out as good as possible 😊
Enthralling, captivating the list goes on lol your posts are allways a joy to watch .and I learn something new every time . On your last post you said about the run of bad luck with your phone .How about having a celium rectifyer taking a dump in the living room when showing your dinner guests your restored valve radio .sleeping in the spare room at the moment. Kind regards from over the pond
Well, I thought I was having bad luck 😊 Those things really stink.
@@electronicsoldandnew tell me about it going to use your mod All the best shaun
I started with these kind of radios too... well my start isnt that "deluxe" :D I have my fun with a lot of GRUNDIGs like CityBoy, MicroBoy, YachtBoy etc... mostly because of these rather "stupid" names. This Nordmende (i have a few tube and transistor-sets) is truly a nice addition for any collector!
I agree, and also agree that the naming of the grundig collection was probably a good idea at the time, but not today 😊
Great looking radio, fab close ups and a nice project...Love seeing the diagnosis as it develops to a fix. Thanks for sharing..Ed..uk..😊
My pleasure
I love this little radio and the way that the features of a good car radio (compact, durable, clean loud audio) work to make a better portable. Great job on the plastic detailing!
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I have the North American version of your Nordmende radio, the Globetraveler Jr. I've actually got three identical sets and hope someday to make one fully working and restored one. they were sold around 1966-67. Thank you for posting the video.
My pleasure. Hope you get yours working. They are really ready little radios.
Yes, I agree. Really a lot of features packed into such a small radio for the time. The US version goes up to 108 MHz. Also, most if not all Globetraveler Jr's have the dark green/black "caviar" colored case. I'm not sure if they officially sold multiple colors for radios destined for the US.
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I just bought another one of these radios that is "not working" but appears to be in better than average physical condition. I wish Nordmende had sold them in the US with the wood veneer case like yours.
👍 I got two with leather coating. They look good too, but I still prefer the wood 😊
I'm fairly sure it is a vinyl plastic covering over a pressed wood housing and not real leather. None of my radios have that aroma that my dad's old Mercedes Benz had :).
Glad you are exploring one of these. I don't have one but always thought they were cool.
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Christ, It's massive! I'd put back the cover and keep It on the shelf. You're definitely the wizard at the top of the tower.👍
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This radio looks a lot like the Schaub Lorenz radios of the same era; they sometimes have the same mechanical problems, but they are very nice sets! And your video is excellent!
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It is quite interesting what you have with this Nordmend set. Very good.
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I was kind of hoping this would be your next project. As much as I love tubes, this one just has a really unique charm to it. Look forward to following this through with you.
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If you use the iron to fuse certain parts into place then you will clean the tip to prevent oxidation of the tip of the iron.
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Lovely Work Manuel a Lot Nicer Radio Than My Tandburg TP41 But Just Like My Tandburg Not Very Service Friendly Unlike An Old Acker Radio he he Think it Uses a Pilot Lamp Just Like My Tandburg For The Dial Face Too But I Could Be Wrong Will Be Watching Part 2 To See How You Bring This Old Lady Back To Her Previous Beauty !! Regards mike.
Service friendliness was not a priority, I agree.
You will get a whack on the pee pee buying all these nordmendes good stuff i like it keep it up cheers.
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If you remove the loud speaker and unsoldier the leads to the speaker you can get at the capacitors.
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Nice find! Haha, I actually like the "cheap" transistorized radios of the seventies. Build quality got somewhat worse at times, but ICs and PCB connectors really tidied up the designs. Really reliable and easy to work on - but if an IC fails it's often not that easy to find. Usually it's the power amp ICs. I had such fail twice. For a LOEWE i found a drop-in replacement. On a Nordemende, I had to bodge in a modern chip on a perfboard. Works though.
Grundig also used ICs, but they had discrete Ge (AC 128 etc.) output stages until around 1980!
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👍, sehr interessantes Gerät und Video!
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Beautiful radio! Someone at work had what looked like a very similar model but it was a Tandberg, had fantastic tone quality.
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Tandberg and Radionette, great Norwegian products! (I am Norwegian :) )
@@greengrayradio1394 my first “good” open reel tape deck back in the day was a Tandberg model 64!
@@mjg263 Exactly the Tandberg product that started the big boom for their products in the USA
Nice radio, great work! I wonder, should that tone control flex and bend the components attached below it? Somehow I doubt this is correct. - I see the Norwegian factory Radionette must have watched the construction of these radios closely (imagine it must be this way round :) ), several models of the time (Explorer, Kurér 1001among others) are nearly identical in case construction. My Explorer (great radio!) once fell on the floor, and the bottom plate broke into around 20 small and bigger plastic pieces.. I at last got a junk radio to take parts from.. It then got the name "exploder"..
The flexing is being caused by a shards adequate that I have loosened to do the cleaning, so it’s not a problem.
No doubt, these beautiful devices were made to last at least a hundred year.
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I don't mind at all that this glorious Normende jumped the queue! I'd have done the same thing.
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Hoping your Wife is recovering from covid 19, This radio looks so much like the Beolit 1000 of which i have one , still working good after 40 +years , Oh Murphy sends his best wishes he lives next door , Take care hoping to be in Funchal later this year .
She’s still not completely recovered but is improving. Strangely enough I didn’t get it and I did not isolate from her 😊
As for Murphy: we all have a neighbour like that 😊
@@electronicsoldandnewGood to hear she on the mend ,When one lives in Ireland as i do there is NO shortage of Murphy,s , it is bed time 22/50 hrs , take care .
Fantastic radio! It looks very complex compared to analogues. My friend wants to purchase an even more complex version - NORDMENDE GLOBETROTTER AMATEUR. I hope my restless hands reach it too)
Me too 😊
The transistors are all PNP so it might be worth getting a large batch of PNP transistors from the CCCP.
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The tuning cap plates are bent out of shape, they seem to crash into the housing.
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The AM dial pointer looked like it didn't go all the way to the left Is the problem with the tuning cap as simple as just moving the pointer a bit to the left on the string?
I was like screaming "Dont remove the main board, remove the battery compartment and the speaker" ☺
These radios are buildt around the Main board. So it's almost impossible to remove.
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I must have heard the screams 😊 I always try and get around something as drastic as that, but I was getting really worked here 😊 The tuning cap has some problem besides the pointer possibility, but I haven’t started that issue yet. We had elections for the national parliament today, so this evening is a TV speculation marathon to see what type of government were going to have.
"I" forgive you for going with this one after "promising" to do the tube (valve) radio next, but it appears that "Murphy" hasn't. You really have a number of challenges in this one. I am interested to find out how you resolve them. Especially the tuning capacitor issue. I have been trying to visualize just what could be stopping the capacitor from continuing to close so that it is fully meshed. So far no luck. That entire tuning system might be worthy of a video of its own.
Is there a pictorial of how the unit is assembled? That might help a lot with the tuning mechanism if there is one.
You did a fantastic job with the bottom plastic battery compartment! I had a suggestion that I was going to make, but it turned out that you had a method of your own that worked wonders.
After you resolve the tuning capacitor meshing issue, I feel that an alignment is really necessary. That is something I am interested in seeing on this radio. It will probably be very straightforward to perform, but still, I would like to see what I think will be a considerable improvement.
Although it is a rare occurrence, it is still possible that you could have a defective Germanium transistor. If you do, what are your plans for replacement? I would imagine that you would have to make some component value changes to make things work properly.
You know, with that connector on the bottom that was used in a vehicle, you could make an adaptor that you could "plug" the radio into that would provide coverage throughout your entire house!
I appreciate your sharing these videos with us! Thank you very much!
The tuning cap definitely promises to be a challenge. The service manual is quite detailed, but not on the mechanical aspects.
If a transistor is defective, I think I can get some from the supplier in Ireland.
This one will definitely require an alignment.
it looks like a HMV that i got at least very similar , only one band of short wave tho xx
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Super!
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Great job on the bottom battery compartment! Looks like a NOS replacement. How did you clean up the battery contacts? I was sure you'd have to replace them. I'm lookin forward to the alignment video.
dremel with wire brush
I was wondering, when you described the car connector and the switch that would be pushed when the radio was inserted into the car holder, you mentioned the antenna as well as power and speakers. It appears that the mini whip you connect to the side antenna connector works independently from that bottom connector, so you can always connect a better antenna to the side, correct? We had a Blaupunkt portable in the 70's about that side with a car sled adapter to fit under the dash. Huge thing but it worked in a similar way. The sound of that thing was also awesome. This Nordmende really has a humongous speaker and will sound fantastic too.
I need to study the schematic a little more but I think the side antenna is independent from the bottom one, so should work well for me.
can understand you it is a very nice radio
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Don't know if this is already mentioned, but at 4:21, you notice the bottom alignment plate of the variable condenser is bended in. Isn't this the reason it won't turn further?
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i fear, i get envious
😊 Don’t complain. You get all those really cool transceivers that leave me really envious 😊
Nice radio! It truly squeezed to the maximum the limited performance of early germanium transistors.
Btw: that abrupt sound change you atribute to the tuning capacitor shorting, it does not seem to affect the other bands? If so, to me it looks like the IF amp or the converter is "taking off" at that point, I mean: it starts a spurious uncontrolled oscillation, by internal feedback favoured by that capacitor setting picking up some internal signal.
Could be caused by misalignment.
That issue had me baffled, but is now sorted out. Should have the video published tomorrow.
OH! very different inside
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Nice dirty beast.
I think I saw that the two white plastic gears at top and bottom of that tuning mechanism have cracked around the screw holes. If that is so, I use to use steel wire windings around it ( .1 mm), e.g. the steel where tiny springs are made of, and a two component epoxy in the crack and on the sanded surface with the wire. If you have a good stretchless polyester sawing wire it could also do the job.Acetone is absolute the best for degreasing, IF this plastic can stand it of course, but I think so.
Good tip. Thanks.
Manuel, I'm sorry you two are confined to quarters, but on the bright side you got a lot done on the receiver. Great job on the battery compartment, I think you misrepresented the ease of replacing those capacitors it didn't look that easy. Hope your better half is not Suffering any side effects. If you want to see a cleaning project look at x-ray Tony's latest.
Confinement without serious symptoms, and with radios to restore, is actually …. quite pleasant 😊
I am watching Tony’s video. I need to get an u/s cleaner. It works wonders.
I am sorry but you are very much mistaken about the last 1 uF capacitor, it is sandwiched between the IF/switches board and the main board. Have a good look on the service manual. It is drawn right there. And it is right, it is connected to the U /FM switch. I am fixing the same model right now, just look at it!
You’re absolutely right. I must have had my head on backwards when I tested it. So I missed the one cap, but fortunately this little guy has been in regular use for all the time since I restored it, and it works really well. Thanks for the info. I’ve got a couple more of these that I may get working on sometime soon, so the info does help.
@@electronicsoldandnew No problem, glad to help... here the caps were more or less okay, in mine at least. But I have a Globetraveler from 1965 which was totally dead due to small singal audio caps... and also for the future, if you'll get to restore one, the pesky ITT Schaub Lorenz Touring Series had some oily cracked caps of some 10-100 nF hidden like that as well. The Touring 30, 40, 50, 60. The 70 and up used better ones that stood the test of time. They are ROE caps, dark red ...brick colored, and I've found them also in some Telefunken Bajazzo radios from late 60s-early 70s.
I went through a phase when I bought quite a few of these small radios, and if I remember correctly, I have at least one of those pesky ones in my store room. Thanks for the warning.
@@electronicsoldandnew No problem. They do sound really good though. Reception is not stellar, but the fact that Schaub lorenz made their own speakers for their radios sure did help them in the long run. My favorites are the "weekend" ones, smaller versions of the Tourings, with a 9,5x15 cm speaker instead of the 13x18 the big brother got. I have the Weekend 70, 80 and the export, 900. 9 Germanium transistors inside and they sound like a portable boombox, the bass they put out is amazing for their size, sweet little things, i love them :)) . Posted some here on youtube but unfortunately they are only show off videos, I'm an amateur when it comes to making videos, no time for it...
Anyway, that's it for my rant, good luck in your future endeavors!
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Hi Manuel. That's a beautiful looking radio. Does the tone control have a dual control were as you turn the control to alter the treble, and then push and turn the control to select the bass adjustment?. They certainly crammed a lot of component's into a small space. Cheers Chris.
I think the tone control has a “treble” setting and a more “bass” setting, and in each you can alter the tone.
@@electronicsoldandnew As I recall, their is a two-way bass setting. The tone knob clicks into the up or down position, giving you two bass settings.
I think i have almost the same radio.
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So, its beautiful, fragile, very sensitive and it got your full atention. Isnt your wife jelous? :D
By the way, if you plug your miniwoop antena to your guitar amp, will it pickup radio stations?
😊 She’s not jealous because “Eu tenho dois amores 🎶 “ 😊
The miniwhip doesn’t accept a guitar input, but I’m trying to teach it to make dinner 😊
That's not what's going on, your wife wants that radio :) I know it!
People sometimes hear radio stations bleed into their guitar signal path. I wonder what happens when you actually plug an antena in the input. Should sound better than my guitar playing :D
It’ll certainly sound better than mine 😊
You didn't waste any time, did you? It's beautiful so I don't blame you!!
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It really seems like nothing is ever easy. :-)
By the way: Can somebody explain to this noob why output transformers are a good thing (like "sound very good") in a transistorised amp?
They were in designs until the late 1960's and then disappeared. Just because of the weight (and cost), or did someone invent a better power amp design?
The transformer version was definitely more expensive to produce, so that was a factor. The sound is “fuller” and more harmonious in my opinion, and In definitely not an audiophile 😊
The later, (pseudo-)complimentary output stage design is definitely more efficient and has a more broadbanded response, as the small transformer in a classic push-pull is pretty much a high pass filter far into the audible range. It's a matter of taste though, and the latter is easier to work on. In tube curcuits, the transformers are much bigger so that's less of a problem, and it adds some (pleasant) coloration to the sound.
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