26-10-2016, 11:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 26-10-2016, 11:29 PM by Mike Watterson.)
"Not much improvement on SW just a small tweak helped a little. Probably be better at night,"
Depends on conditions and band.
Always compare with a known radio on same aerial. I thought one of my SW only radios had died, but comparison with other sets revealed that all the SW bands were "dead", only 2MHz to 5MHz was working (poorly) and only quite late that night.
Other times the late 1940s battery Vidor SW works with the built in loop (at front panel, it has LW and MW loops near rear).
Aurora can make a lot of interference on SW, while allowing DX VHF! There has been high activity this last week.
Looks like my guess about Supersonic is correct (originally in Northern Rhodesia only, country became independent in 1964 as Zambia). I'd be sure that's an Asian made loudspeaker. They became major suppliers in all of Southern African countries by 1960.
South African "Whites" don't like ex-pat White Rhodesians much, they call them the "When Wees", from their habit of starting to reminisce often "When we lived in Rhodesia, we ...
There is a website for "Ex pats" of that region called the Great North Road where there were some threads on Supersonic. They made some very nice battery valve and later Transistor radio, portable record players and transistor car radios. AFAIK no connection with "Supersonic" Brand in USA today.
See
http://www.radiomuseum.org/m/supersonic_zw_en_1.html
Certainly some 1970s sets listed.
I have an early battery Valve model made by them that was owned from new a friend's mother in South Africa from maybe 1955, the D11
I'd like the D29 http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/supersonic_d29d_2.html
Though some of the transistor sets look interesting and people spoke highly of them on African forums.
I theorise that the failure of the Ever Ready Pioneer was because Africans by mid to late 1950s didn't want something looking like a battery charger with a giant expensive battery sitting outside it. They were buying "ordinary" radios imported and local ones, inc from Supersonic. They had a massive economic growth from early 1950s to mid 1960s.
Depends on conditions and band.
Always compare with a known radio on same aerial. I thought one of my SW only radios had died, but comparison with other sets revealed that all the SW bands were "dead", only 2MHz to 5MHz was working (poorly) and only quite late that night.
Other times the late 1940s battery Vidor SW works with the built in loop (at front panel, it has LW and MW loops near rear).
Aurora can make a lot of interference on SW, while allowing DX VHF! There has been high activity this last week.
Looks like my guess about Supersonic is correct (originally in Northern Rhodesia only, country became independent in 1964 as Zambia). I'd be sure that's an Asian made loudspeaker. They became major suppliers in all of Southern African countries by 1960.
South African "Whites" don't like ex-pat White Rhodesians much, they call them the "When Wees", from their habit of starting to reminisce often "When we lived in Rhodesia, we ...
There is a website for "Ex pats" of that region called the Great North Road where there were some threads on Supersonic. They made some very nice battery valve and later Transistor radio, portable record players and transistor car radios. AFAIK no connection with "Supersonic" Brand in USA today.
See
http://www.radiomuseum.org/m/supersonic_zw_en_1.html
Certainly some 1970s sets listed.
I have an early battery Valve model made by them that was owned from new a friend's mother in South Africa from maybe 1955, the D11
I'd like the D29 http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/supersonic_d29d_2.html
Though some of the transistor sets look interesting and people spoke highly of them on African forums.
I theorise that the failure of the Ever Ready Pioneer was because Africans by mid to late 1950s didn't want something looking like a battery charger with a giant expensive battery sitting outside it. They were buying "ordinary" radios imported and local ones, inc from Supersonic. They had a massive economic growth from early 1950s to mid 1960s.
