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31st Jan 2020, 6:03 pm | #1 |
Pentode
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Marconi Receiver
Hi Chaps, right i bought won this Marconi MW receiver at a local auction today at a very modest price,it looks to be in very nice clean condition & i have got to go & collect it Monday (so i don't yet have it here with me) but would appreciate if you could help / advise me as to the model etc & if it is ex military??
It looks to be from the Cold War era to me? not sure on the the country it was used in as when i google words off the front panel it is coming back with some words being Lithuanian & others Greek. I have already tried googling Marconi Type E & other combinations to try & identify it but to no avail yet. Any input anybody?? Cheers in advance Last edited by M6SPW1974; 31st Jan 2020 at 6:20 pm. |
31st Jan 2020, 6:29 pm | #2 |
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Re: Marconi Receiver
Was discussing this rig with a VMARS colleague and he reckoned it was made for Lithuanian military. He also thought one of the controls was for reaction and so might be a TRF receiver. Was tempted to bid but too far from here!
. Roger G3VKM Last edited by G3VKM_Roger; 31st Jan 2020 at 6:54 pm. |
31st Jan 2020, 6:39 pm | #3 |
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Re: Marconi Receiver
It does look rather like a TRF: if it was built for the military I'd expect it to be able to receive CW, which would mean if a superhet it would need a BFO-control and BFO on/off switch as well as a RF-gain control of some sort, all of which don't seem to be there....
I'd say it was pre-WWII; the dial-calibration is in Metres, which is not something I would have expected in anything post-WWII [and after WWII Lithuania was under Soviet communism so its military wouldn't be buying radios from a Western, Capitalist company, surely?] |
31st Jan 2020, 7:00 pm | #4 |
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Re: Marconi Receiver
I have had a couple of Marconi TV-10 calibration transmitters, used for setting up a D/F station, pass through my collection a few years ago. The dial used on the TV-10 s very similar to the unknown receiver, see attached.
73, Roger/G3VKM |
31st Jan 2020, 7:53 pm | #5 |
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Re: Marconi Receiver
Hi Roger, thanks for your help pal , yep the main tuning control knob definitely looks the same to me
Just replied to your PM. Best 73, Shaun |