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I need to be more aware that I am directing a post to someone who may not be familiar with my vernacular, so sorry Mr. Svit.
You have many sets that are so different in style and look that I am glad you are sharing here on the Phorum.
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This is all good, Paul, all part of learning.
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"""... so sorry Mr. Svit """ ...
Hmmm ... I liked it. So nobody called me yet, Paul will be the first. This is not the surname, Paul. It's a nickname. My nickname on all radio forums of RadioSvit (in Ukrainian РадіоСвіт, in Latin transcription of RadioSvit ). From Ukrainian it translates as Radio of the World. I was always interested in receivers from all over the world, but I like the radio most of the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Austria and Sweden. So when, 10 years ago, when I first got on one of the Russian forums on radio, I chose such a symbolic nickname.
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Here is my Czech Surname.................Burescz, feel free to use it anytime for me. Our family name was changed during immigration from the "old country" or where we came from which was Prague, and at that time was part of Austrian Empire. Franz Josef the Emperor, Joseph and Francis are used as names in my family here quite a lot.
Nice to meet you my radio friend from the Ukraine. What city are you near?
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Very nice to meet Paul. I live near the border with Slovakia, in Transcarpathia, the small town of Svalyava. This is Ukraine. In 1920..38 years, this territory was part of Czechoslovakia. So we are almost fellow countrymen. ))
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So to you my new friend Na Zdravi I will have a beer! Good luck with all your radio sets.
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I also.Na Zdravi .
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Very nice collection Mr. Svit
What is this radio?
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Oh oh ... It seems I have a new nickname . This is the Canadian radio console Eaton Viking 40A75E1. 1940 Pretty simple 7-tube radios, but very stylish and has a very nice sound. If you are interested, then I can create a short story about this model and show video of his work.
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Pete;
I like that radio that you posted in and earlier video, that Latvian battery set, Vefar BD-39, it has a French "Art Nouveau" style to the cabinet, but in some ways it reminds me of a U.S Belmont Radio from the 1940s.
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Arran
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Arran , this one radio ? This is a very simple Latvian radio battery, made on two lamps. Regenerator . I will talk about him in the topic of his collection.
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWiXqYzo...KaIOa09O1N]
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Pete;
Yes, that is the one, if it were a North American radio from that era it would have been a superheterodyne, and had at least four tubes (lamps). It's still an interesting set, I would assume that by "regenerator" means that it is the same thing as what they would call a "regenerative" circuit over here, where they use a system of controlled positive feedback for amplification. Such circuits fell out of favor, at least in North America, by the mid 1920s, as if they were adjusted incorrectly they could oscillate and radiate RF out of the antenna, causing interfering squeals and howls out of any other radios that happened to be nearby. Another reason that they fell out of favor is that a manufacturer required an RCA patent license to build them, which were very hard to obtain, and expensive, but tubes (lamps) were relatively inexpensive, so most manufacturers started building receivers with tuned radio frequency (directly amplified) circuits instead, such as the neutrodyne circuit. Mike posted of his Philco model 86 which uses a TRF circuit
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Arran, thank you for the interesting information. Here is a diagram of this radio.
This radio has two vacuum tubes, it was made in 1939 by the Latvian state company VEF. Despite the fact that the scheme is very simple, this radio has three bands - Long Waves, Middle Waves (Brodcast) and short waves. But you will be surprised when you find out that its body is not bakelite or plastic, but ... wooden! This company owned a furniture factory and did not have the technology to make plastic and carbolic cases, so it imitated them from wood! And they succeeded - their receivers looked like carbolics!
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Pete,
We call them "lamps" "tubes". In the UK they call them "valves". So do the rest of the European languages ("tube" in French, Valvula/Valvola in Spanish/Italian, Rohre in German (means "cylinder")).
The only languages that call them "lamps" are Slavic (Ukrainian, Russian).
So when using the Google, which probably will make "лампа" into "lamp" use "вакуумная трубка" или просто "трубка". This way you will fool Google into correct translation.
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
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Thank you, Michael. I'll correct the text now.
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