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Old 19th May 2017, 11:49 am   #9
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Default Re: Valve-operated Fonadek telephone amplifier

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I sold one of those through the forums donkey's years ago. I wonder if it's the same one?
I bought this one from Max Flemmich, who runs a telephone museum near Kilmarnock, so probably not. Do you recognise any of the scuffs etc?

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... its wife-acceptance-factor is surely low!
But then, I don't have one of those in my collection - wife, that is!

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I bet there are not too many of those which have survived.
Maybe correct, I only have the transistorised version.
I also have the transistor version, along with a later transistor variant:
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