Is it Still of any Use?

[@jdrs4214]

goseph joebbels and his boss chitler, are rolling over in their graves because you modified the Volksempfänger. Thank you for sharing this Mister. That’s a beautiful radio you have there; very well kept, despite its old age.

[@douro20]

That's a permanent magnet reed speaker in there. GE used an electrodynamic reed speaker in many of their portable transistor radios back in the 1960s.

[@michaelquinones-lx6ks]

Here in the states AM radio is still alive and well. Nothing beats AM because, When the sun goes down, you can hear stations from other states. Still that's a very nice radio.

[@adrianponce8402]

Lindo 🐱, tengo la misma radio , como hiciste la antena, cuanto cable usaste y como la tienes ubicada? Gracias

[@muzz1106]

The cat haha, well done

[@acestudioscouk-Ace-G0ACE]

Interesting work and looke almost too clean and tidy inside. Thanks for the video.

[@German_byte]

I enjoyed seeing that old Volksempfänger working again. Perhaps you could open the capacitor box and measure if the capacitors are leaky. They can’t be too bad given that the radio still works. Great that the radio has not been verbastelt.

[@edgeeffect]

None of my transistor radios ever made the "cool tuning noise" .... I wonder if it's a unique feature of vacuum tubes? In England vacuum tubes were called "valves".... what do you call them in Deutschland?

[@DoctorVolt]

That characteristic hissing and whistling comes from the regeneration. A principle that these early radios often used. A transistor receiver using this method would produce the same sounds. By the way, in Germany we call these "Röhren", means the same like "tubes" in our language.

[@godfather00cz]

actually it is a czech radio playing around the 9:00 :)

[@DoctorVolt]

Cool, that this old box can still receive stations more than 500km away!

[@BecomeMonke]

Amazing

[@mingosutu]

Nice one!! I like your cat, by the way!!

[@youallanone]

Very interesting , does this radio have only 3 tubes?

[@DoctorVolt]

Yes, 3 tubes were actually enough to build a radio in these times.

[@edgeeffect]

That power cord looks like it's old but not as old as the radio??? A 1960-1970 repair????

[@DoctorVolt]

I don´t know of which age the power cord is. But all I can say is that it is not the original. But at least the plug seems to be the original one.

[@alezisc-a3420]

suena a historia

[@uhf001]

tuxedo cat!!!

[@DoctorVolt]

Best cat ever!