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1959/60 Bush TR82C/B/D

  • 22-03-2014 5:12pm
    #1
    Ihatehalloween
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    Hi
    I have a 1959/60 Bush TR82C/B/D and was wondering if anyone knows what sort of antenna I need to plug into the co axial jack.

    Any advice appreciated


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  • #2
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    It's for an old pre VHF-FM Car aerial*
    In those days a dedicated car radio (in UK anyway) needed a separate licence.

    The MW/LW car aerials were not just a whip:
    1) The car body and capacitance to earth formed the "earth"
    2) They used coax where the centre wire was a fine coil to act as aerial loading. Later they used ordinary coax (so as to work for VHF) and the radio then had two loading coils (LW & MW bands).

    So you need about 1mH series inductor, 0.5m to 1m whip and an Earth to simulate. If using in a car you need an inline adaptor to add 1mH in series, but it should do something on a modern 75cm AM/FM car aerial on a car. The "bee sting" and "shark fin" car aerials are useless for vintage radio and very poor compared to a 20cm whip with helical coil on it, which is poor compared to traditional 75cm am/fm Whip even for a new car radio. It seems appearance is now more important than functionality.

    From about 1953 some valve portable radios had socket for a car aerial. Many transistor sets from 1957 to late 1980s had it.

    Browse http://www.radiomuseum.org

    (* Only some continental portables had VHF-FM in 1950s, most UK car aerials for AM only, even though VHF-FM existed from 1955 in UK (1949 Germany and on Band II in 1945/1946 USA, Band I late 1930s). I have two UK portables 1957 and 1958 with VHF-FM, the only two ever made in UK, they do have external aerial sockets (inside rear cover) but unlike German sets not for car aerial).


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