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1-04-2009 | The patient the author had to revive was a Telefunken model T 33 B RFS broadcast radio in a wooden cabinet, fitted with a turntable, and mad...

1-03-2009 | Nothing, zilch, nada from Google on this bright yellow, portable, NBFM 70 MHz receiver/transmitter from Philips duly labelled “Fabr. Nr. LO ...

1-02-2009 | While cleaning out the instrument cabinet in our company shop, I came across a Digisplay unit that I built and used many years ago with cons...

1-01-2009 | This month’s Retronics page takes an unusual slant by presenting µWatch, which beats all of the above hands down for DIY nerdiness.The last...

1-12-2008 | Happy with the good response I got to two previous Retronics stories about little known valves like the Dekatron and E1T, I decided to dig o...

1-11-2008 | Back in the 70’s when engineers were bread-boarding their designs using the new fangled microprocessors they soon found that the traditional...

1-10-2008 | Next year will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Elektor TV Games Computer (TVGC), which first appeared in the April 1979 issue of Elekt...

1-09-2008 | A previous instalment of Retronics discussing the ‘Dekatron’ decimal counter valve [1] having aroused my attention through feedback publishe...

1-06-2008 | The FUP1A PMR test unit had four frequency ranges: 68-88 MHz; 80-95 MHz; 95-110 MHz and 140-175 MHz. The later FUP1D came with the 420-475 M...

1-05-2008 | As early as 1972, a telephone answering machine appeared on the market that was second to none: The ‘Alibi-Nota FL’ with remote listening /...