Gerard's Gerard Hollands Glorie

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Gerard Hollands Glorie Mini Radio

Small construction project, intended to make my son enthousiastic for the hobby.

**Data for Gerard Hollands Glorie**
Production	The Netherlands, 1998.
Bands	MW.
Tubes	E80CF.
Semi- conductors	B250C75 rectifier.
Cabinet	Wood. Size 29x19x14 cm. Weight 4.6 kg.
Power	AC 230V, 13W.
Documents	Schema.

The Design

The schema was taken from a popular book from the sixties called Jongensradio. But we improvised a lot using parts we had in stock. The single tube is a triode/pentode, E80CF in our case. The triode is switched as a regenerative detector, and the pentode is the output tube.

The chassis picture has the ferrite antenna, hidden a little bit behind the tuning dial, which also hides the tuning capacitor. Behind the tuning cap is the tube, and on the right the power transformer.

Obtained	1/1998 from scrap parts.
Condition	6.
Disposed	Scrapped 12/2018.
Sound sample	PLAY SOUND Jesus is Lord of the way I feel, recording from Groot Nieuws Radio, 16 december 2013.

This Object

When it comes to soldering, drilling, and designing circuits there is not much a six year old boy can contribute. The radio does not work as good as I had hoped.

The left picture shows most of the parts on top of the chassis, the right shows what is under. Usually constructing such a project starts with an inventory of old junk you have, and adapting the schema to use these parts.

The power transformer has a tapped secondary, making it suitable for a tube rectifier. But the schema and the junk box were unanimous about the use of a bridge rectifier.

In December 2018 I scrapped it to use the power transformer or a Philips BX480A.

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