The Humble Kitchen Radio

[french frank]

Bit late in the day, but this was my first radio when I left home. Someone gave it to me because they couldn't imagine anyone living without a radio:



I understand Her Majesty would consider nothing else.

[gradus]

Our kitchen Roberts does FM and DAB. The aerial broke years ago but it still copes with DAB 99% of the the time with the end of the aerial jammed in the wider diameter broken bit - sorry for the tech-talk. Good quality sound too for a portable.

[mangerton]

And I found a picture of the batteries in the Dynatron - yes, two big cubic Ever Readys - bringing back memories !
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Ah! The famous PP9. I once constructed an amplifier powered initially by a PP9, before I built a mains power supply. There was also a PP6, used by my first radio - a KB Carioca for which in 1964 I paid "ten and a half guineas" or £11.025. There was a prime example of psychological pricing.

Other famous batteries include the bell battery, the cycle lamp battery, and a real rarity, the grid bias battery.

Yes, I know, we're way off topic, and I really must get out more. But it's coming down in buckets here.

[johnb]

It probably did come with instructions, but I've no idea where they are now.


I've tried taking the battery out and replacing it, but that didn't work. I'll take it to some different places and try again.

Jean,

Depending on how old your radio is you can probably download the instruction manual from the Pure website. You say that your radio is tiny and uses earbuds so it might be a PocketDAB. If so the Pure website has downloads for the PocketDAB 1000/1500/2000 models. (For the PocketDAB 1500 you press the menu button and then select "Autotune UK" in order to do a full rescan of the UK DAB stations.)

Guides for the Pure PocketDAB series: http://support-uk.pure.com/downloads...ket-dab-family

Guides for all the Pure radios: http://support-uk.pure.com/downloads...al-radio-hi-fi

[LeMartinPecheur]

Our kitchen radio is a very well-known brand, but not necessarily for radios...

...INDESIT.

It came free with our first washing machine IIRC, c1977. The washing m/c is long gone but the radio continues to deliver. Needs careful positioning for acceptable sound quality but I blame that on the local FM signal and the metal frame in the window it sits near.

I've always presumed that it was re-badged as Indesit rather than actually their product, but could be wrong. Is there a gazetteer of 1970s plastic portable radios anywhere online?

[jean]

You say that your radio is tiny and uses earbuds so it might be a PocketDAB. If so the Pure website has downloads for the PocketDAB 1000/1500/2000 models. (For the PocketDAB 1500 you press the menu button and then select "Autotune UK" in order to do a full rescan of the UK DAB stations.)

It's quite new, and appears to be called Move 2500.

I had found 'Autotune' on the Menu button, but it didn't seem to do anything when I pressed it. I tried again at your suggestion, and all the stations have come back!

Thank you.

[Beef Oven!]

Ah! The famous PP9. I once constructed an amplifier powered initially by a PP9, before I built a mains power supply. There was also a PP6, used by my first radio - a KB Carioca for which in 1964 I paid "ten and a half guineas" or £11.025. There was a prime example of psychological pricing.

Ten and a half Guineas is £11.5s in old money, (L.s.d) or £11.25 in new money.

[Bryn]

It's quite new, and appears to be called Move 2500.

I had found 'Autotune' on the Menu button, but it didn't seem to do anything when I pressed it. I tried again at your suggestion, and all the stations have come back!

Thank you.

http://support-uk.pure.com/downloads/213-manual

[Nick Armstrong]

Our kitchen radio is a very well-known brand, but not necessarily for radios...

...INDESIT.

It came free with our first washing machine IIRC, c1977. The washing m/c is long gone but the radio continues to deliver. Needs careful positioning for acceptable sound quality but I blame that on the local FM signal and the metal frame in the window it sits near.

I've always presumed that it was re-badged as Indesit rather than actually their product, but could be wrong. Is there a gazetteer of 1970s plastic portable radios anywhere online?

This the one? http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/indesit_r15.html

Radiomuseum.org is the friend of all retro radio fans! This is the history of Indesit:

http://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=8372

- they made tellies and radios between 1960 and 1980, apparently

I had no idea, but am oddly glad to know it now!

Call me sad

[teamsaint]

Ten and a half Guineas is £11.5s in old money, (L.s.d) or £11.25 in new money.

I think you will find that Mangers is correct.

But don't worry, you'll soon get the hang of the New currency.

remember 1 shilling = 5 NP !!

[Beef Oven!]

I think you will find that Mangers is correct.

But don't worry, you'll soon get the hang of the New currency.

remember 1 shilling = 5 NP !!

I think not!

I lived in a market street in the east end and I mastered our glorious money system and then they went and changed it to something foreign!!!

Eleven pounds and five shillings is what the total is. Thus £11.5s or in new money £11.25. Work it out yourself!

I know I'm right!

[Bryn]

I think you will find that Mangers is correct.

But don't worry, you'll soon get the hang of the New currency.

remember 1 shilling = 5 NP !!

Indeed, a very simple calculation. Well below QM100 level.

[Beef Oven!]

Indeed, a very simple calculation. Well below QM100 level.

Not so simple for you lot! Otherwise you'd get it right!

[Nick Armstrong]

FIGHT !!!!!

[Beef Oven!]

FIGHT !!!!!

Yep, the one on the left is about to be KTFO!