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My Collection 1960's Radios These are my 60's radios. Not too many here, but all are loved and cherished. :-) |
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Philco 135  This is one cool set! This Philco was made around 1960 or so and represents one of my newest sets. This was made for the british market. I found this while fishing on ebay. This catch is 26 inches long! It has a 120-220 selectable transformer. The Philco 135 has 6 tubes, including the rectifier and tuning eye tube. With only 4 active radio stages (mixer, IF amp/detector , audio preamp, and audio output) this radio won't perform as well as many of my other radios. But what it doesn't have in performance, it sure has the looks. This is an AM/SW radio only with phono input, the broadcast band, two shortwave ranges (calibrated in meters) and three bandspreaded shortwave ranges. This was one of those "one evening get em running" jobs. There was a wire that was broken, the rectifier tube was bad, and I replaced two capacitors. I have no schematic for this set, so if anyone could help me, I would appreciate it! GE P-965A  What? This is a transistorized radio.
What is this doing here? Here's the story. Way back in the dark
ages, around 1965, I had purchased a radio like this new. I am
not sure how much it was, but somewhere around 70 to 80 dollars.
That was a lot of money in the olden days. I had a good time
with this radio. I took it with me on my paper route, listening
to shortwave stations on it. I remember that on Saturday mornings,
Radio Canada used to have a shortwave listener program. It made
the paper deliveries a little bit easier. But one day I left it
outside and when I remembered where I left it, the radio was gone.
Kind of a hard lesson for a teenager, one I never forgot. The
loss was covered on my dads homeowners insurance policy so I
was able to get a replacement radio, a Ross. It just wasn't a GE,
but it worked. I used it for a long time and I gave it to a
teenager about 20 years ago.
GE P-968A  I always knew that GE made 3 versions of the radio above. I think there were more model numbers too, but this one is the "marine" version. The shortwave coverage is from 1.8 to 5.1 mhz. Not too big of a deal for shortwave listening but I can now listen to the AM ham radio operators on 75 meters. This one came to me in very nice condition. GE P-975F  This is the second one of the three GE portables I bought. This is an AM-FM model. This by far was the most popular of the 3. This one is missing the tip on the antenna but otherwise quite a nice radio. I always liked these old GE portable sets. I noticed on all three that there is very little bass. I thought that the electrolytic capacitors were dried out, but when I replaced them in the shortwave model, the sound was still the same. Still a very nice radio Matsushita National UM-680  Here is my first Japanese 1960's tube radio. It might be
1950's. Hard for me to tell. This radio is top shelf. It sits on my top shelf
in my living room too. It's a gift from a friend. All I needed to do is change
the paper type capacitors, replace a few tubes and pilot lamps and do a small
amount of rewiring. Rubber coated wires again.
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