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Old 17th Jun 2019, 11:23 am   #21
Mike. Watterson
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Default Re: Help to identify old Philips valve radio

It's got the separate VHF tuner (2 x EF80), and bottom scale looks like VHF.

It can't be Philips Ireland unless they were making or rebadging AM/FM sets for the few areas with VHF reception from UK. It looks like it has channel numbers on VHF, which would suggest a German import.

I think VHF radio started just before VHF TV (which was 31st Dec 1961, 405 in areas that already had TVs for BBC/ITV and 625 VHF elsewhere.) There was also only simulcast with the sole Irish station, however BBC didn't have much more than simulcast of three stations till 1971 in most places.

VHF-FM started in 1949 in Germany.
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