Gerard's Supersound

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Item nr.

Supersound World receiver

World receiver with world map.

**Data for Supersound**
Production	Hong Kong, 1975.
Bands	LW (150-300 kHz), AM (540-1610 kHz), SW (4.0-12 MHz), FM (88-108 MHz), VHF (108-174 MHz).
Semi- conductors	About 17 transistors.
Cabinet	Plastic with leatherette. Size 32x21x11 cm. Weight 2.4 kg.
Power	AC (220V) or batteries (4xD).

The Design

During the seventies, people appeared to like big radios with lots of bells and whistles. Big portables with the pretention to receive from all over the world were in fashion. They invariably had a world map and time conversion dial. They were advertised as having a lot of bands, but electrically had only few. On this radio, for example, there is electrically spoken just one MW band, but on the dial it is split ino a broadcast band and a sport band. In that way, this five band radio could be sold as a nine band one.

Sometimes you find strange things inside these Asian boxes. This pulley has asymmetric chord pull: when it rotates, the lower wire runs out (or in) much faster than the upper wire does.

Obtained	6/2002 from Activiteitenmarkt Slotlaan.
Condition	8.
Disposed	Scrapped 1/1900.
Sound sample	PLAY SOUND Fall 1987. Supermarket chain owner Gerrit Jan Heijn is kidnapped. After handing over the randsom, his wife makes a dramatic appeal on the radio and asks the kidnappers to release her husband. Several months later Ferdy E. is arrested (traced by spending the randsom money in one of his victim's super markets) and confesses that he had killed Heijn already on the first day of the kidnap.

This Object

Fine condition. Complete, even with both rod antennas (one for FM, one for SW). Internally a lot of the parts are mounted directly onto the cabinet, such as the power transformer and even the squelch control. This makes it unattractive to take out the chassis of the radio.

Part of Gerard's Radio Corner.
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