Telecolor 3007
08-25-2004, 03:54 PM
Did anyone saw car radios with tubes which had FM and portable radios with tubes which also had FM?:confused: :beatnik:
View Full Version : Car radios with tubes & FM... Telecolor 3007 08-25-2004, 03:54 PM Did anyone saw car radios with tubes which had FM and portable radios with tubes which also had FM?:confused: :beatnik: Markw 08-25-2004, 04:00 PM 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. Paula 08-25-2004, 11:01 PM 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. Paula Chad Hauris 08-26-2004, 07:42 AM Mark, was that a vibrator type radio or did it use an output transistor? Telecolor 3007 08-27-2004, 04:31 AM 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 Markw 08-27-2004, 05:52 AM Originally posted by Chad Hauris Mark, was that a vibrator type radio or did it use an output transistor? Dunno for sure. I never pulled it and I only had the beast for a little under a year. Uncle Sam called and the folks traded it in on a Rambler when I was in basic training and lapsed on my payments. 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. bgadow 08-27-2004, 11:59 AM 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. sid claire 08-31-2004, 06:39 AM In a 1961 Chrysler I had was a tube AM/FM radio. Don't recall exactly but it may have been a hybrid. Carmine 11-05-2004, 08:10 PM 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) :D Telecolor 3007 11-06-2004, 04:13 PM 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. glen65 11-06-2004, 06:27 PM Image not available?? That is unfortunate I thought it was pretty cool. Charlie 11-07-2004, 01:25 AM 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. Telecolor 3007 11-07-2004, 03:26 PM 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. |