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10th Jul 2018, 6:49 am
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Cleveland 500 radio
Please can anyone give me some details or have knowledge of this radio.
Is it a kit radio? Has it been adapted for use with mains? It appears to use two 4.5v batteries. Thanks Mike |
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10th Jul 2018, 9:50 am
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Dekatron
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Re: Cleveland 500 radio
Hi Mike,
don't know anything about the radio except I have an old Cleveland energised loudspeaker and it was made in France. A search in the retro-forum confirms Cleveland was a loudspeaker manufacturer. DFWB. |
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10th Jul 2018, 10:57 am
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Re: Cleveland 500 radio
I don't know anything about that Cleveland radio either, but it looks like a typical Far-Eastern transistor radio dating from maybe the late 60s/early 70s.
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10th Jul 2018, 3:29 pm
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Dekatron
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Re: Cleveland 500 radio
That loudspeaker.
DFWB. |
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10th Jul 2018, 4:37 pm
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Dekatron
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Re: Cleveland 500 radio
Yes it looks like a far-eastern cheapie to me: the style of the 1000uF 16V electrolytic is classic!
I'd say the brand is "Diamond" and the model-number is Cleveland 500. (Certainly not French: the French never really had much of a MW broadcasting network post-WWII: their big push being for LW and FM, neither of which this radio has!) |
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10th Jul 2018, 5:09 pm
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Re: Cleveland 500 radio
Thanks for your replies so far.
I was wondering it it could be a USA model (MW only) and someone has added a mains transformer. I am trying to get hold of a better photo to show the station names, that may help. Mike |
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10th Jul 2018, 5:54 pm
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Octode
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Re: Cleveland 500 radio
Hello,
From the picture below the station names seem to be in German. WIEN rather than Vienna. Might be related to this https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/sudfun...3838_grau.html Yours, Richard |
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10th Jul 2018, 6:59 pm
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Re: Cleveland 500 radio
Here is a photo of the dial showing the station names, it does seem there are a lot of European names.
Mike |
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10th Jul 2018, 8:55 pm
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Dekatron
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Re: Cleveland 500 radio
Predominantly German stations with a few big names from other countries around.
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11th Jul 2018, 9:52 am
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Re: Cleveland 500 radio
I think it looks more like a dial from a prewar woodie than a 1970/80s transistor.
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11th Jul 2018, 10:00 am
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Re: Cleveland 500 radio
Not prewar. NDR (Nord Deutsche Rundfunk) wasn't known as that before mid '50s.
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11th Jul 2018, 10:01 am
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Re: Cleveland 500 radio
Well you know what I mean. The times when there were hardly any British radio stations and the dials were filled with foreign sounding names.
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