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Item nr.
Van der Heem design
| Production | The Netherlands, 1948.
Price was 280 guilders. |
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| Bands | LW, MW, 2xSW. |
| Tubes | ECH21, ECH21, EBL21, AZ1. |
| Cabinet | Wood. |
| Power | AC. |
| Obtained | 1/2007 from Adri Visser. |
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| Condition | 7. |
| Disposed | Sold 9/2008. |
| Sound sample | PLAY SOUND During its operational life, this radio has reproduced all the news messages related to the build-up of the Cold War: establishment of NATO and Warsaw Pact, the Russian invasion of Hungary, McCarthy's communist hunt, the death of Stalin. By the time of the erection of the Berlin Wall it was 13 years old and during the Prague Spring almost twenty years, so perhaps it was already retired then. (Dutch listeners of this 1956 fragment may wonder how it is possible that news messages that are not yet known, can make a heavy impression??) |