I went in under the hood last night and blew out the dust. Not too bad, looks like its been pretty well kept. I cleaned the plug sockets and the volume control with deoxit. I cleaned the tuner gang with some tuner cleaner. The plastic antenna jack is broken where it plugs into the back, perhaps some super glue will put it back together. One of the bakelite? knobs has some spider cracks around the set screw hole. Other than that, it's in pretty good shape. The tuning eye is cool, its not one of the circle kind, the green glow comes in from left and right, as the signal gets better the gap in the middle gets smaller.

I'm not a radio guy, this was just an irrestible thrift buy for me. I could be talked out of it.

Radiomuseum.org lists it as a '62-'63 model, made in East Germany. There's a list of tubes, but no schematic.

Translation: "MASS DISTRIBUTION HOUSE - QUELLE - FURTH IN BAVARIA - FORWARD HUMIDITY PROTECTION"

All I found: Quelle
Humongous German mail order etc. store, has for a long time sold consumer electronics under their own Universum brand, today this trademark is only used for their budget lines of AV and portable audio sourced from the usual parts of the world but in the 80's they had lines of hi-fi seperates and although these where mostly budget products, some of them where quite presentable especially considering price etc. Nothing about old models.

These days they seem to be a mail order department store like Sears or JC Penny. Their site:

http://www.quelle.de/is-bin/INTERSHO...orefront-Start

A buddy of mine who's a German professor responded with this:

"It's a SABA, an acronym for whatever. Where I lived, we shared a commons down the hall and there was that exact model in there. They built them to last! (They were tubes, too, so they sounded great!)"

Dunno if that helps any.

Wow, I'm always amazed at the wealth of knowledge shared by AKers.... Blows me away.

I concur 150%. You post a question and within minutes somebody somewhere chimes in with an answer. Sometimes even the right one. It's like the Borg Collective consciousness.

Check yr PM box, StarMover.

you have to be paying member to get more...

I am a member,but there's no schematic for that model. If anybody needs a schematic that's listed there, I can download it.

Now that you mention it the full on face shot does look very similar to a SABA Villigen from the early sixties time period. If you have the tube line up you can go to radio museum and and type them all in and it will give you a list of radios made with the same lineup. That will narrow down the possibilities.

mmmh - The Saba Villingen doesn't look very similar to my eyes... anyway, the radio is already identified.

Sorry Dynacophil I missed your earlier post where the radio was identified as an East German RFT Saalburg . I have never heard of that brand.

Thank you all so much for the help!

RFT? RFT (Rundfunk- und Fernmelde-Technik)
it was THE Brand of audio, tv, telecommunication and computer gear the GDR, also the tubeproduction..

if you're interested in RFT products, here are some commented and shown:
http://ifatwww.et.uni-magdeburg.de/~madaus/big.html
http://home.arcor.de/guenther.mengewein/rdf50/rdt.htm

Looks like a Quelle Saalburg has been recently listed on ebay-
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