Antique radios, Old Time Radios
Radio Museum's Guidance - H E L P
Dear
Guest:
Radio Museum’s home page is the starting point
to search the world's largest collection of tube
radios,
transistor radios and tubes.
For simplicity we will refer to Radio Museum
as “RMorg” and home page as “HP”. From the
HP you can navigate the entire content of our
site. If you ever get lost you can return to the HP
with a click on your language flag icon or
the “Radios” tab (at upper-left). By selecting
other flags you may switch to different
languages.
6 Ways to get H E L
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Underlined expressions like the one above are
click-
links to additional information on a subject.
Small blue icons with an “i” are help pages
in the context of the current frame.
Please use the icons extensively for help.
You find different forms on the HP to search for
individual radios or groups of radios. As a
beginner you should just try the simple
search until you are comfortable with the
functionality. Please keep in mind that you must
only enter single-string model names or type
numbers. NOT manufacturer or brand names!
A valid example is: “Lindau”
or “468”. Next click GO to the right.
The search engine will attempt to find a best
match for your request. An exact match will show
the model's data page. In case your search
criteria are ambiguous you will see an
intermediate list of partially matching radios.
Select / click any model. If it’s not what you
wanted, use the back-arrow of your browser
and try another one in the list.
The “Forum” tab also lets you access a FAQ
section. Another tab “Texts” leads to other
interesting reference articles on radio
collecting, history and technology. "Tubes" is a
rather new topic. Finally the “Links” tab
provides pointers to external web pages with
related content.
Valuable
Member:
Members have access to additional
functions. The
“Market” tab grants access to our Bazaar. It’s
what the name says – Members may trade whatever
they would like to sell or need to buy, but only
if it relates to radios. The tag “Forum” also
leads to themed discussion areas for exchanging
information, questions and advice. It’s visible
to guests - except "Talk".
Members have several additional privileges.
They may
view
collector’s prices and the complete set of tubes
per model. Small photos are expandable to large
screen views. Furthermore, members access
schematics for printing or may request missing
ones – there is a good chance some members will
find them
for you as a new member ...
You can build your personal page within
RMorg. Whenever you provide own photos of
specific existing models, they will show up in
your personal page as well as new models you
contribute. Once you have a personal page at
RMorg you may upload other photos. I.e. a
personal radio collection displayed in shelves,
your pet, family, or hospital recovery from
electrocution
…you name it. But for every model you
can also get a private form where you list
details for you and your family like price
paid, your work done on it etc. And you can also
bring in new models or manufacturers and add/change
data. Administrators check before it is up.
How to become a
member
You can apply for membership by clicking on “Sign
in
for new membership“ - upper-left on the HP.
Then follow the procedures.
Before you apply for membership please
consider:
RMorg is a non-profit organization and can
only
succeed if our service is not used as “a free
lunch”. Many motivated members contribute
and
spend considerable time and effort without
material benefit. To share is “Give and Take”.
So much depends on your support and
contributions. Many members found their home
within RMorg.
Searching for radios is quite simple
For an example, let’s use the upper HP-form
labeled “Simple search for Old Time Radios”.
Enter a single string of the model name or type
number – i.e. K6. It may even be incomplete.
Click GO. A list of radios will be shown. In our
example we see a line for a model “D detew
29/30 Superhet K6 RAD + Symbols, Date”. The
first letter is the country of origin, D for
Deutschland = Germany. The next fields are
manufacturer, name, type-number and kind of
equipment. Some symbols may be shown next
indicating the availability of text, photos,
schematics and price info. A click on this model
will show its data page where you see three
photos and below a link to four more. As a
member you may view any photos in higher
resolution. Just above the photos
members find a link to schematics if available.
Once you're done, go back to the HP via a click on
either your flag or the “Radios” tab on top.
At this time RMorg has an almost complete radio
catalog for The Netherlands, Germany, Austria
and Switzerland from ancient radio history up to
about 1974. You will find about 39,000 US models too
but most are yet very incomplete - except for
Atwater Kent, "United" and Zenith (mainly
pre-war). Please check them and see what we could do
together! Or use the left-side HP link-list to
access individual collections and photos of
members on their own HP within RMorg.
How to upload
photos, schematics, information
etc.?
As a logged-in member navigate to a specific
model's data page as explained above. There is a
link-line down on any data page. The link “add
information to model” brings up another page to
specify what you intend to upload. Please read
the information carefully and use the blue info-
buttons extensively wherever they are found.
Practice a while to become familiar with file
naming conventions and size, acceptable image
formats et al. If you intend to contribute
schematics, we ask you to read the FAQ’s in the
Forums section on how to prepare them. Also check
whether a schematic is really missing or if
you have a better quality one. RMorg imposes a
high quality standard on any contributions – our
community deserves the best in seriousness,
reliability and precision, so let’s try not
being sluggish.
Any contributions will be checked by
Administrators/Peers and accepted or rejected if
not compatible with the rules, but you will
always be notified if something was rejected.
What else?
There are a lot of other interesting features to
explore on RMorg’s HP. We appeal to your sense
of adventure to discover those, rather than
drowning you in a flood of words here. Remember:
You have a friend wherever you go: the
blue “info”-button!
So travel the link-list left of our HP at
leisure. See the personal collectors and
collections pages. Find contact to
administrators. Browse and contribute to the
forum. Build you own page within RMorg as a
member, show off photos of you radio collection,
kids, pets, family. Bring in new models if you
can.
Encountering
errors?
Visiting the RMorg site for full capabilities
needs certain functionalities in your browser /
system to be active. Here are the three most
likely symptoms you might see:
1. Automatic login not possible.
You must enable cookies for the RMorg site to
verify your identity. (You may still block the
rest of the world). RMorg does not use cookie
data for any purpose other than to run the site!
2. Same as above, but you had deleted your
cookie-cache or not allowed any cookies at
all. – You must login manually once with cookies
enabled for RMorg. If you forgot your login
data – just click the appropriate link.
3. Certain links within the RMorg site don’t
work. –You must have Javascript installed and
enabled. Check “Extras / Internet options /
Security / Internet / Java-Applets enabled”.
4. You get error pages. Please don't enable
CACHE because this means that you get the pages
out of your own system, not from RMorg, once
called a certain page.
What advantage do
I gain by joining as a member?
Besides the benefits stated above, consider what
follows. Just go to the forum, ask
questions and you’ll find valuable help,
information and tips & tricks on all aspects of
old radio issues. Don’t give up if it’s not in
your language yet. Just add a note in your
language asking for someone to help you out. You
will be heard and answered.
Once you build your personal page within RMorg,
you have a good chance to become quite prominent
on the web. If you entered your first and last
name at your RMorg’s personal page, you may end
up first rank on Google search results! And
imagine how many new contacts and friends you
would find.
Can I join without paying
the one-time fee?
Yes, you can. But please do consider the following:
You are a full member but have to earn your admission for
schematics and large pictures first.
Why is there a one-time fee?
To discourage abuses, yet to remain attractive to serious
applicants, collectors who are truly interested in active
participation. Towards this goal, the admission procedure
was made more stringent in February 2004. The new
admission fee is part of this.
How to have it waived:
Please read further down what members can do for RMorg. If
you like what you see, proceed as prescribed under Option
2 except that instead of using PayPal (or other payment)
you will give us a brief statement by eMail as to what you
can and are willing to do for RMorg.
Any obligations?
Not really. We consider to have a gentleman's agreement
with you and are confident you will act accordingly. There
is no set form in which your contribution should be made.
You may contribute adding information to listed models
and/or supplement the existing framework with models not
covered so far. If we insist on one thing, it is that "you
must enjoy doing it".
Members who enter on option 1 (for free) have to earn the
privilege of getting schematics or being able to enlarge
pictures by adding first either 19 collector prices or
enhance 19 fields for models or to add 12 new models or 12
pictures of his/her own (or 19 others) or to upload 4
schematics. All other privileges are given at the start.
In other words:
You are not really obligated, but all members are
encouraged to participate. The following items are
representative of those available to most members:
1.
A member should feel free to post items of interest to any
forum open to them.
2.
Members are encouraged to submit supporting data to fill
in the coarse structure for some models.
3.
A member may also submit text and/or graphics to add a new
model to the museum database.
NOTE: There is no fixed format in which to contribute
information for new members. As a member gains exposure,
he or she may wish to adhere to a generally accepted
format to upload information for the text portion of model
data sheets.
The primary objective of the organization is for all
members "to enjoy what the organization offers".
Foundation Radiomuseum Luzern (Switzerland) Translation:
Peter König
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