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Got this radio here kinda beaten up, but still working. the problems it had - the ferrite antenna inside of it came loose, the contacts for the band switches were dirty, dirt everywhere, old caps, selenium bridge rectifier - a timebomb. Somebody had replaced in the past the mains transformer on it.
Otherwise, it still goes on chugging along. Good reception and good sound. It has the Classical TBA 570 IF IC, but for the AM it also has an RF amplifier transistor... .the reception quality on AM is quite good as such. The audio is amplified by a TBA 830 and the speaker is still the good quality Telefunken one, 10x15 cm. This is sadly, one of the last good quality, truly German made Telefunken radios. You can already see that the company was going downhill by the amount of plastic used and kitschy design but at least the insides were still of proper quality. Sad demise for such a great company.
Anyways, I am going to keep this little thing, beaten up as it is, it still represents a fragment of history.
14 май 2023
