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Item nr.
| Production | Belgium, 1959.
Price was 328 guilders (source). |
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| Bands | LW (1150-2000m), MW (185-580m), SW (24-51m), FM (87.5-100MHz); IF is 452kHz for AM, 10.7MHz for FM. |
| Tubes | ECC85 (fm tuner),  ECH81 (FM 1st IF and AM mixer), EF89 (IF), EF85 (FM 3rd IF), EABC80 (det and preamp), EL84 (push), EL86 (pull), EZ80 (rectifier), EM84 (tuning indicator). |
| Cabinet | Wood. Size 54x32x22cm. Weight 9kg. |
| Power | AC (110/127/145/165/220/245V), 70W. |
| Documents | Manual (Dutch). |
Kees describes the loudness circuit. It is quite advanced in this set, with two taps on the volume pot rather than the usual one. The Manual explains how to use all these nice features and how to connect antennas.
The set is also found at Piet's site, with color manual.
| Obtained | 9/2013 from Tanneke, sn=PL21083. |
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| Condition | 8. |
| Disposed | Sold 3/2015. |
| Sound sample | PLAY SOUND The sound quality is very good, and using the switches (Galm, Fidelita, Parola) and controls (Bassen, Hogen), can be adapted to various receiving conditions and content types. I'm sure the proud owner in 1962 enjoyed The Girl from Ipanema as much as we do now. |
Pulling the chassis is not very hard, despite the many cables running from the chassis. The trick is just to unscrew the button panel from the cabinet. The chassis was very dusty, but some cleaning with a brush and vacuum cleaner revealed a nice, complete chassis.
I extended the cleansing to the dial bulbs (see cleansed and uncleansed one left) and measured the tubes. Two tubes needed replacement and two were doubtful. I replaced all four, but after the repair that followed, it turned out that the radio worked well with the two doubtful tubes. But bad news: it turned out that AM worked, but FM didn't. Measurement on pin 6 of ECC85 gave zero voltage there, and no Local Oscillator was noticable on a nearby radio. So, bad Rs and Cs inside the box, the FM unit A376885!
The tuner is connected with seven soldered joints and three bolts, which aren't problematic, but I didn't want to restring the tuning dial. So I managed to take off the tuner while keeping the driving wheel with th chord fixed in position. Replacing the bad R64 and C94 is then a matter of minutes.
A test of the tuner, fed from test clip wires, detected the LO on my Citizen Green solar set, so the tuner went back to its original position. FM worked after operation, which cost me quite some time, but no restringing of the dial chord was necessary. For my Capella with the same problem I did the same.
A few more resistors were badly changed in value and I replaced a handful (R20, R49, R15 ,R6), and also the coupling capacitor (C59). The overall condition of the radio is very satisfactorily, it is complete even with back and bottom cover. There is a moisture mark in the woodwork on the right cheek.