A not so old radio
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A few years ago there
was a craze to buy nostalgic radios and some are quite tricky
to distinguish from original. This one though is easy because
the dial shows a figure of "102" and is obviously an
FM frequency. Around the back is a small switch carrying the
markings "LW", "MW" and "FM". A
tiny black wire emerging from the cover is for FM reception and
the lack of an aerial socket for LW and MW reception means there's
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Here's the rear cover
which shows a very unusual manufacturing country (at least for
those found in the UK).. Romania.
But when was it made? I'll reveal
this in a close-up picture of its loudspeaker at the bottom of
the page.
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It uses transistors as
valves would be rather inconvenient. You'll note the small mains
transformer bottom right and of course the modern plastic mains
cable. |
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Here's a view of the rear
of the loudspeaker which carries some interesting details.
The model is P-21495 B
The rating is 3VA Max and what
looks like 3 ohms which is an unusual way of expressing the rating.
Then there's NID 2207-83 and
finally 26-85 which I assume is the manufacturing date (week
26 of 1985).
Romania was under Soviet rule
until 1989 so this radio belongs to the Iron Curtain regime together
with a couple of other radios in my
collection.
The other marking is probably
that of the QA department tasked with testing and checking for
appearance.
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