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3rd Feb 2023, 2:02 am | #1 |
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Mystery Pye set 1935/36
Typical 1936 Pye upright style with 3 vertical slats, 3 knobs and small horizontal tuning scale. Unusually, this radio has an apex "shed roof" top and wooden carrying handles, but it is a mains set. Any ideas please?
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3rd Feb 2023, 4:11 am | #2 |
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Re: Mystery Pye set 1935/36
Hi Steve from your description possibly a T/M
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/pye_tm.html Cheers Mike T
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3rd Feb 2023, 9:23 am | #3 |
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Re: Mystery Pye set 1935/36
Pictures would help.
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3rd Feb 2023, 9:49 am | #4 |
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Re: Mystery Pye set 1935/36
Does sound like a T/M. Large table models weighing at a guess around 25-30 lbs. but with frame aerials so that they could be used wherever there was a mains socket and provided with handles of one kind or another (the Ekco ACT96 is another example) came and went rapidly around 1935/36, I can only guess because there wasn't much public enthusiasm for lugging them from room to room at all often.
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4th Feb 2023, 10:30 am | #5 |
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Re: Mystery Pye set 1935/36
Hi Steve is this the set?
Cheers Mike T
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4th Feb 2023, 10:37 am | #6 |
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Re: Mystery Pye set 1935/36
At that time Pye seemed to almost have a policy of not identifying sets.
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7th Feb 2023, 10:31 pm | #7 |
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Re: Mystery Pye set 1935/36
Yes, thankyou all. Its a TM
Oh dear, its a TRF
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8th Feb 2023, 9:48 pm | #8 |
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Re: Mystery Pye set 1935/36
TRFs are fine. The high-end German manufacturer Körting was turning them out as late as 1939 - complete with diode detection and neon tuning indicators (e.g. the Novum 40, of which I have an example). Some sets were switchable TRF/superhet - the argument was that for local quality reception a TRF didn't suffer from conversion noise in the way a superhet did and you could also get a wider bandwidth.
In the UK many bespoke manufacturers of high-end sets also did the same - Haynes for one, Expert another. |