Some introductional notes for the
newcomer
Texts about this internet portal can be found in
the footer links and within the forum.
Here you simply click a country to see its radio
makers and by clicking on a radio maker you see
all the displayed antique radios and next you can
click a radio model to find many details - often
including collectors prices (>20.000 for members
only).
This page is the first in the hierarchy of the
alternative search. We believe it will be
indexed most and therefore you will find here a
short description including all the subjects the
site is dealing with. Later we will publish more
precise data about each country with listed
radio manufacturers and you already find a
description about some old radio makers in
Germany.
This Antique Radio Catalogue and Virtual Radio
Museum - also called Radiomuseum (RMorg) - is an
internet portal which presents data and
information for more than 92.500 antique
radios like consoles and portables but also
about audio equipment or antique amplifiers,
antennas, crystal receivers etc. online in the
internet.
Any user can view more than 160 thousand pictures and
memebers can printout more than 61 thousand schematics for
the restoration of the electronic
parts of old radios - also called old time radios
or classic radios. The download of radio pictures
or schematics is possible as well as adding new
radios or correcting existing models.
Members will see the valves and there are hints
for repairing collectible radios. There is only
little on ham radio - called boatanchors - but
many radio amateurs are members and like their
hobby to repair old radios or antique radios.
Many of them are real collectors of vacuum tube
radios or transistor radios. In the USA the radio collectors have many US
radios in their homes, even lowboys or highboys
etc. Many makers are well known like RCA for its
size or Atwater Kent for its early name but also
Bell or General Electric (GE). Crosley is known
for its very cheap radios. Often you hear of
Emerson, Fada or Firestone but also of
Oceanic, Philco and Radiola but there were
thousands of very small radio makers in the
United States of America. Some members (in
Germany!) have made a good effort to show how
this catalogue can look like if many members
contribute to the goal of having a full
catalogue. Look up Zenith - pre WW2
years.
In Europe you have to distinguish between many
countries. For the Netherlands and the German
speaking countries, which are Germany
(Deutschland), Austria (Österreich) and
Switzerland (Schweiz) you find here a most
comlete radio catalogue in very
strict order. There are not only big
manufacturers like Telefunken or AEG but you
find a rich list of about a thousand radio
makers or other gear for radio frequency - and
soon more. SABA is well known by american radio
collectors but also Nora would be a big company.
Also Loewe-Opta - is well known, still
manufacturing now - as perhaps the only maker of
Television sets in Germany now.
Other european countries have also had a big
radio industry but only Philips managed to
remain as a big player today. Most very fine
manufacturers of the old days have vanished like
Ducretet in France where there were also big
names like Sonora or Thomson and Zenith.
Specially in the United Kingdom (Great Britain)
you could find many famous makers because this
country was the first to introduce wireless
radio. In Sweden Luxor will have been the big
name. Many people do not know that also in Japan
there werde early manufacturers of radios -
today Sony will be the most popular.
Look into the radio catalogue either with the
"Simple search" or with the "Advanced search"
where you can either search
for specific radio models or look up only a
certain period of time or a maker or country.
You can also select "Transistor models only"
(pictogram) or different equipment (model type).
You can also search for radios with certain
vacuum tubes. Here with the alternative search
you look in a different way for Antique Radios
and related items and you don't get a sort by
year but by model name. [rmxlnd-en]
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