“Have I not pass'd thee on the wooden bridge With it's theme of a wandering figure in a familiar landscape - which could be my job description - it's not surprising that some of the lines have stuck with me, for instance: I saw Leopold Stokowski, Artur Rubenstein, Sir Adrian Boult and pianist John Ogdon perform and Richard Baker once appeared there, narrating Vaughn William's Oxford Elegy which combined passages from Matthew Arnold's Thyrsis and The Scholar-Gypsy. You could sit right up in the gallery for 50 pence so, even as a student on a very limited budget, I could afford that. I didn't spend every night listening to the radio and I'd always scan the monthly events at the Royal Albert Hall for classical concerts, such as the famous Tchaichovsky evenings. Apart from light classics, the most memorable songs, regularly featured on this show, were Goodnight Vienna sung by 'whispering' Jack Buchanan, Lazy Bones by Paul Robeson and A Fairy went a Marketing sung by Dame Clara Butt. Baker was the first man to read the BBC television news (in voiceover) in 1954. The show was later rebranded as Baker's Dozen. The programme that I most associate with listening to this radio in my room at the college hostel in Evelyn Gardens was a long-running Saturday evening light classics programme These You have Loved, which had a new host at that time, Richard Baker. Radios 3 and 4 popped up on FM in stereo pretty much where they are today, but we're now preparing for a digital switchover, so they might be moving on again. The red and blue stickers on the tuning panel date from the time that the frequencies of the BBC channels changed, for instance Radio 3 moved to the 247m medium wave band that the tuning panel shows was originally BBC Radio 1. I bought it in 1972 or 1973 at an electrical store on the Edgeware Road, when I was a student at the Royal College of Art. I COULDN'T send my old transistor radio for recycling without drawing it first, as it brings back memories. I have a multimeter and signal generator but no oscilloscope.Philips (Iberia S.A.) 90RL411, 11 semiconductors (transistors), Super-Heterodyne, Long Wave, Short Wave and FM, Modern Plastics (no Bakelite or Catalin), 270 c 140 c 55mm (10.6 x 5.5 x 2.2 inches), Permanent Magnet Dynamic Loudspeaker, source: Radio Museum, Madrid. Now the only frequency measurement I get is 1.6 MHz at the collector of the first transistor. Something went wrong after I tried to fix the intermittent longwave reception. It was working almost perfectly after replacing old electrolytics and the Ge transistors with new ones and I was even able to measure the IF of 465 kHz at the collector of the last RF transistor. However, I am confident that the audio section is working fine as I was able to connect my MP3 player and play it at full volume without distortion. It only passes a faint test signal from the base of the second RF transistor to the audio stage, but a strong one from one terminal of the second IF transformer. Suddenly it is unable to receive any stations, neither will it pass a 455 kHz test signal from the external antenna input to the audio stage. The radio has four RF transistors, four AF transistors and a Germanium detector diode. I am repairing an old four band Transistor MW+ SW radio for which a circuit diagram is unavailable.
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