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Item nr.
Bakelite table top
| Production | The Netherlands, 1954.
Price was 169 guilders. |
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| Bands | LG (1100-2000m), MW (190-550m), KG (16-50m). |
| Tubes | ECH81, EBF80, EBC41, EL84, AZ1. |
| Cabinet | Bakelite. Size 37x27x18 cm. Weight 5.5 kg. |
| Power | AC 43W. |
But on the other hand, it is also instructive to see how the design of this type evolved in a few years. In 1952, the Fridor was built using Rimlock tubes only. No antenna was included, the user had to supply a wire antenna. In 1953 the BX321 was built, and it already had three Noval tubes; the EBC41 triode and AZ41 rectifier remained Rimlock. That model was also equiped with ferrite rod antennas, but if you compare these with the antennas in later radios it appears as if Philips didn't feel very comfortable with their application yet. There were two of them (for MW and LW separately) and they were mounted on a separated piece of circuit board. In the 1954 model we find a single rod for the two bands and moreover the rod is firmly mounted on the chassis on top of two metal bars. In addition, this model also has a SW antenna built in! Appearently this year saw the introduction of the famous Philips plate antennas, large pieces of metal foil glued to the inside of the cabinet. As a final modification, the IF transformers in this model are of a much smaller type, and box-shaped as opposed to the cylindrical transformers used in the earlier models.
A still later model with a similarly mounted rectifier is the Philips B4X77A (1957).
| Obtained | 12/2002 from NVHR Swap Meet. |
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| Condition | 8. |
| Disposed | Sold 4/2007. |
| Sound sample | PLAY SOUND To some people, the post-war years appear a bit colorless when viewed fifty years later. Gerard Reve was a very controversial writer and he certainly brought some color to those that wanted to see it. His debute was De Avonden in 1947, considered to be the starting point of Dutch literature after the Second World War. From the day of its publication, Dutch literature was no longer about heroes and events taking place in the world around us. No, the world around us would only be the stage on which the anti-heroes dive into their own minds. Not everybody wanted to know the insides of Gerard Reve's mind and I cannot blame them. Gerard Reve died on April 13, 2006, at the age of 82. |
I could buy this radio quite favourably, actually it was almost given to me at a swap meet, where it was sold as scrap. It was incomplete, but technically repairable. My next luck was that I could obtain several of the missing parts. The set is now quite presentable.