Thread: Sondyna radio.
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Old 10th Feb 2016, 10:07 am   #18
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Default Re: Sondyna radio.

Ric

The construction of your radio has a very Philips look to it. The speaker in a cloth bag and the rectifier standing on top of the mains transformer are very characteristic of Philips designs. Also, the use of two ECH21 valves and an EBL21 to give a full superhet using only 3 valves plus rectifier was a Philips innovation that was also adopted by Tesla and others, see here

http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~tel0...s/FourTube.htm

I wonder whether Sondyna were a Swiss subsidiary of Philips, or otherwise received technical assistance from them.

John
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