Gerard's Saba UA265

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Saba UA265 Sabine

Very fine small table radio.

**Data for Saba UA265**
Production	Germany, 1958.
Bands	MW 3xSW.
Tubes	UCH81 UF85 UBF80 UL84 UY85.
Cabinet	Moulded (probably bakelite) and spray-painted.. Size 29x19x17 cm.
Power	ACDC.

The Design

Nowadays widely appreciated for its design, in its days the Saba Sabine was a bottom-line radio. Indeed, moulded cabinets were considered cheap, and leaving out the power transformer was also just done for saving on production cost.

The back-illuminated speaker grille and tuning dial make this radio a real beauty at night.

The radio was probably for export: there are no station names on the dial, and the radio does not have the LW band but has the tropical band (60-190m) instead.

Obtained	9/1998 from Paul van Berlo.
Condition	8.
Disposed	Sold 1/2014.
Sound sample	PLAY SOUND The Dutch singer Drs. P is extremely well-known for some songs from the seventies, like Dodenrit (Trojka hier, Trojka daar) and Veerpont, but his career goes back to the fifties, when he performed Gezusters Karamazov (1957).

This Object

I got this radio in exchange for a Philips BX500A from Paul van Berlo. It needed a few small repairs, I replaced some capacitors, and I re-sprayed the cabinet.

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