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Car radios with tubes & FM...
Did anyone saw car radios with tubes which had FM and portable radios with tubes which also had FM?
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My '64 Jag 3.8S had a tube am/fm mono radio. I believe it was a Becker, or possibly a Blaupunkt. I forget. I got rid of it in '69.
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That's an interesting question -- I can't think of a single example, offhand. It seems that the ascendancy of FM coincided with the decline of the vacuum tube, with minimal overlap.
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Mark, was that a vibrator type radio or did it use an output transistor?
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Yeeesssssss! Those kind of radios where manufactured.
Take a herefor a car radio lohttp://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_modell.cfm?model_id=21447 And here for portable radios http://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_modell.cfm?model_id=4023 http://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_modell.cfm?model_id=4026 http://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_modell.cfm?model_id=4021 ok |
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Hey, for insurance purposes it was registered in their names. I was making the payments, at least until I went into the service. The folks were kinda early tough love proponents. Being drafted and not getting paid for a few weeks didn't matter to them. ...never got my money back, either. I think it used an OT since I never detected any vibrations from it like I had on all my older cars (which I owned later) that had vibrator radios. I could hear that sucka in there.
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A few weeks ago I bought a Motorola under-dash FM convertor and was surprised to find it uses tubes. I haven't dug into it yet. The seller said it works, so we'll see.
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In a 1961 Chrysler I had was a tube AM/FM radio. Don't recall exactly but it may have been a hybrid.
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Sorry to bring up a dead topic, but I'm pretty sure that Chrysler didn't offer any FM radios until 1964, and that was on Imperial models.... Chrysler models would usually get stuff a year or two later.
My 1961 Imperial has an AM tube radio. Never been opened up. Still works (with hum)
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Well, I think I saw a tube car radio with FM at a "GAZ M21 Volga" Soviet car, but the owner dind't know if the radio was with tubes.
I found also a car radio with tubes for sale, but it was Soviet, so it worked on FM 64,5-73 MHz. |
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One of the neighbors near my camp in the woods has a 69 Mercedes with an AM/FM tube radio. He says it's not working and wants to have it fixed. I considered looking at it, but, I'm kinda afraid to find a Mercedes car radio to be somewhat involved. I'm not sure what it would take to get the radio out of the dash of a Mercedes, but doing so might be a job in itself!
I might look into it... perhaps it just needs a tube replaced. Actually, I'm kinda surprised that Mercedes wasn't using solid state radios in 1969.
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Untill about the '80's the sound provided by the transitors wasn't so good as that provide by the tubes. I found a "Blaupunkt" radio at a guy who haves a "Mercedes" but is only LW-MW-SW, not FM.
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