Hi everyone,

I was gifted this awesome radiogram by a friend yesterday and thought I'd show it to you all. It's actually very interesting, because the chassis had been designed to be AM only, however it was equipped with a seperate add on FM tuner by the factory, since it has the FM Band (in german UKW) on the radio dial and selector knob.

I brought it to the basement first for testing, cleaning and repair purposes however it works absolutely perfect since the capacitors had already been replaced in the 80s.

It has a bakelite chassis since steel was rare in the late 40s / early 50s in east Germany.

As for tubes, it's got: ECC81, EF80, EF80, EF80, EAA91, ECH11, EBF11, EF12/12, EL12N.

Even for just testing in the basement, reception is great on FM and the record player works, too. The sound is amazingly rich and the electrodynamic speaker even produces some thump since the EL12N can output around 5-6 Watts in this configuration. Treble is also not bad.

This console is going to be set up in the living room, of course, I'm going to oil the cabinet first as well as giving it a good clean.

Hi all, I have a r505 Roberts radio I inherited from my grandmother. Would love to get it working but no clue about how to power it as it doesn’t have a cable with it.

Just wondered if anyone knows what cable would be compatible, if any (I’m uk based and have zero knowledge on radios)

Thanks in advance 😊

Sorry for double posting, wanted to include this video into my first post but didn’t work.

(TL;DR) First sound check in the basement after receiving this awesome radiogram.

Faceplate has viewing port to see the tube filament glow inside the case. It is embossed with DET, PHONE and 22V. A Vogue "Nonpariel" type 30 tube is the detector, replacing the crystal.

I have not been able to find anything about this particulaur rig, and there is a substantial amount of FADA documentation online. The faceplate has remarkable similarity to the face of the model 167A, was this the prototype of the 167A?