Telefunken Gavotte 8 Export. Freebie.
I recently acquired this radio and a search on this site for any threads or service info on it turned up nothing so I thought I would post on here as I thought it might be of some interest.
I was given this yesterday (for free) by a nice old boy who I do a bit of work for now and again, it had been in his loft for around 40 years till a couple of days ago. It appears to be complete apart from a bright missing on the on/off switch. I’m not really into valve radios due to the high voltages and the crammed in components but I was taken by its compact size, good looks, 3 speakers and a good selection of wavebands. I haven’t powered it up but the chap assured me it worked well before they moved to their current location deep in a mining valley near me. Being so low in a valley the radio wouldn’t pick anything up so was redundant and ended up in the loft.
I plan to have a go at this after Christmas but in the mean time I will try to source as much service info etc. as I possibly can, so will put a request for some service info other than a schematic in the wanted section. Some pics below..
Regards
Poppydog
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