Radio

[stuey]

I'm sitting here listening to some nice music on the radio. "Big deal", you might say; however, it's a Nordmende cabinet radio with vacuum tubes. How many others here can say that? It has a really mellifluous tone to it, and is circa mid '60s with am, fm, and 2 short wave bands. Remember when all the corner stores used to have machines for testing your tv and radio tubes?

[shoota]

My tubes have never needed testing, nor mending come to that...

[bookbinder]

shoota, keep taking the tablets! They're obviously doing you some good!

[shoota]

The tablets are fine BB, it's the electric shock therapy that upsets me....

[bookbinder]

stuey, is your radio in original condition, or has it been restored?

[Elina]

I'd love to hear that Stuey. Just googled your Normende cabinet ... Have you a pic of yours Stuey?

[stuey]

It's completely original and in excellent condition. I even have the schematic drawing which came with it. I just realized that you guys call them valves, not tubes.

[bookbinder]

stuey, how did you come by it? It's surely older than you are.

[stuey]

Mine is the 4th from the left in the top row: https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVre5h21WPIUAo5QnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=Vintage+Nordmende+Radios&fr=yhs-mozilla-003&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-003

[Elina]

Oh that's beautiful Stuey does it 'smell' vintage? Does your partner if you have one appreciate old things?

[stuey]

Bookbinder, I bought it from a K-Mart store in 1965. And yes: I'm older than it:)

[stuey]

Elina, my partner is an old thing:)

[Elina]

What are those bottom flat buttons?

[Elina]

& does she share your enthusiasm for old stuff?

[stuey]

They are buttons for on, off, am, fm, bass, treble, and the short-wave frequencies. Eons ago, I used to be able to pick up Morse code broadcasts and voice messages from aircraft and ships.

[Elina]

Ah unusual ... looks like you'd get on a tape recorder .. but obviously not.

[bookbinder]

I think that my interest in geography began when I read the names of the stations on my parents Philips radio: Lahti; Altona; Luxembourg.

[Elina]

In the 70s my parent's had something like this Stuey ... my brothers played plenty of Motown on it! .. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/big/14303/Radiogram/

[stuey]

Bookbinder, I remember that also when I was a young gaffer in England, Used to listen to The Goon Show, Children's Hour, and Dick Barton. My parents used to listen to Mrs Dale's Diary, and The Archers, and other shows. I used to own something similar to that, Elina...Very high-tech at the time.

[Elina]

It was Stuey! ;0)

[bookbinder]

stuey, what kind of aerial are you using? My parents' radio (1950s or thereabouts) had a piece of wire that was fixed to the picture rail. I was too young to understand such things, but I did notice the wire, and it seemed to work.