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[Martin.M]

hello from germany.

I am a restorer of old glowing radio equipment and not interested in cold receivers.

greetings, and keep always warm your table

Martin

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Martin.M, on 18 October 2009 - 07:26 AM, said:

hello from germany.

I am a restorer of old glowing radio equipment and not interested in cold receivers.

greetings, and keep always warm your table

Martin

Hi Martin!

Welcome to the forum!

I see that you like valve (tube) radios. I agree with you, valved radios do have a warmth about them, so might say they are radios with 'soul'

I've built a number of valved sets over the years, one I remember in particular was a UHF transmitter that exploded when I shorted out the HT line to the grid of one of the valves!

The flash from the explosion was so bright that I could not see for about twenty minutes, and for nearly three days afterwards I could see a light green area in the middle of my field of vision (I won't make that mistake again!).

Valves (tubes) may look warm and friendly, but they CAN bite too


73, Mark.

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Martin.M, on 18 October 2009 - 07:26 AM, said:

hello from germany.

I am a restorer of old glowing radio equipment and not interested in cold receivers.

greetings, and keep always warm your table

Martin

Howdy Martin: Glad to have you on board. I know absolutely nothing about restoring old radios, so I'll leave that to you and Mark. How about showing us a couple of those in the Gallery?

Larry from Oklahoma U.S.A.