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Max Demian wrote:


A bit of an extravagance as OU progs were all b/w in those days.

I'd relied on second-hand tellys until then, mostly scrounged from
customers. But no-one would give away one of the new 625 sets, so we had
to buy. It would have been very short sighted to buy a new
black-and-white. Incidentally, we bought the set not long after we
bought our first house, which we furnished for a total of £30.

Bill

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Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

There is no gamma control.

Steve


Ah. I thought you were generalising.

Bill

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Max Demian wrote:

Reaction, Luxembourg bandspread, BFO, overdrive, turbo-charger..


Ah the Luxembourg bandspead. Some had a Caroline bandspread, working
between about 198 and 203m, I think.

Bill

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On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:20:05 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

There is no gamma control.

Steve


Ah. I thought you were generalising.

Bill

There isn't one of them either!

Steve



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Max Demian wrote:


A bit of an extravagance as OU progs were all b/w in those days.

I'd relied on second-hand tellys until then, mostly scrounged from
customers. But no-one would give away one of the new 625 sets, so we had
to buy. It would have been very short sighted to buy a new
black-and-white. Incidentally, we bought the set not long after we
bought our first house, which we furnished for a total of £30.

Bill

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On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:40:25 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Max Demian wrote:


A bit of an extravagance as OU progs were all b/w in those days.

I'd relied on second-hand tellys until then, mostly scrounged from
customers. But no-one would give away one of the new 625 sets, so we had
to buy. It would have been very short sighted to buy a new
black-and-white. Incidentally, we bought the set not long after we
bought our first house, which we furnished for a total of £30.

Bill


It's stuck. Give it a kick Bill.

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Graham.

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On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:25:55 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Max Demian wrote:

Reaction, Luxembourg bandspread, BFO, overdrive, turbo-charger..


Ah the Luxembourg bandspead. Some had a Caroline bandspread, working
between about 198 and 203m, I think.

Bill
My Grandma had a Bush LW/MW portable with a 208m preset.


When I was 7 my uncle loaned me one of these

http://www.jamesbutters.com/emerson888vanguard.htm

The UK model has an interesting enhancement. It looked like a MW only
radio, but if the dial was set to one extremes, it switched 1500m

Another interesting fact about that radio is how I was reunited with a
picture of it after 50 years

http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/s...d.php?p=334623

The image link is dead, but you'll find it here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/g3zvt/5518794912/lightbox/

Tom was spot on. Once I saw it I remembered the Vanguard rocket, I
also remember wondering where one got those odd penlite Mercury cells.
Our paper shop never had any.

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On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:29:58 +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme
wrote:

On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:20:05 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

There is no gamma control.

Steve


Ah. I thought you were generalising.

Bill

There isn't one of them either!

Steve

There Ain't No Sanity Clause neither.

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"Graham." wrote in message
...
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:25:55 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:
Max Demian wrote:

Reaction, Luxembourg bandspread, BFO, overdrive, turbo-charger..

Ah the Luxembourg bandspead. Some had a Caroline bandspread, working
between about 198 and 203m, I think.

My Grandma had a Bush LW/MW portable with a 208m preset.

When I was 7 my uncle loaned me one of these

http://www.jamesbutters.com/emerson888vanguard.htm

The UK model has an interesting enhancement. It looked like a MW only
radio, but if the dial was set to one extremes, it switched 1500m

Ah, the combined tuning capacitor and waveband switch. When I were a lad I
bought a pocket tranny kit for £2 which was supposed to have one, but they
had run out and supplied a separate switch and tuner. I never got that to
align properly as the tuner had the wrong characteristics. Pity as it would
have been quite nice in a black high density polyethylene case.

Then I bought another tranny kit but sent it back as someone else had had it
first.

They often used to sell dud radios as 'kits' - often radios with pre-fitted
batteries that had leaked.

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On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 22:39:06 -0000, "Max Demian"
wrote:

"Graham." wrote in message
.. .
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:25:55 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:
Max Demian wrote:

Reaction, Luxembourg bandspread, BFO, overdrive, turbo-charger..

Ah the Luxembourg bandspead. Some had a Caroline bandspread, working
between about 198 and 203m, I think.

My Grandma had a Bush LW/MW portable with a 208m preset.

When I was 7 my uncle loaned me one of these

http://www.jamesbutters.com/emerson888vanguard.htm

The UK model has an interesting enhancement. It looked like a MW only
radio, but if the dial was set to one extremes, it switched 1500m

Ah, the combined tuning capacitor and waveband switch. When I were a lad I
bought a pocket tranny kit for £2 which was supposed to have one, but they
had run out and supplied a separate switch and tuner. I never got that to
align properly as the tuner had the wrong characteristics. Pity as it would
have been quite nice in a black high density polyethylene case.

Then I bought another tranny kit but sent it back as someone else had had it
first.

They often used to sell dud radios as 'kits' - often radios with pre-fitted
batteries that had leaked.

Do you remember those Russian "keyring radios"? the description was a
bit optomistic.
One of the mail order firms were offering damaged ones batterys had
leaked, plus a new pair of batteries and a charger.
The radio PCB was was really high density for the time with the
smallest transistors I had ever seen.

Ah! here it is:
http://www.vintage-radio.com/recent-...icrosonic.html



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