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 Sfj
 Location: Dumfries, UK
 Member since 17 February 2013
 Member #: 1292
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I'm new to the forum, and new to vintage radio. I had fond memories of valve radios from my childhood, and decided to get one to listen to while I work.
The first valve radio I owned (growing up in Canada) was a Farnsworth GK 267 (1947), inherited from my mother:

http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/Recommendations/RadioPrintAds/retro13_farnsworth04.html

and I've just bought a Mullard MAS281:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chapelcross10/8457971597/in/photostream.

although I'm currently having it repaired. I did a lot of DX-ing in my youth, and hope to do more on LW, MW and SW in the UK...
 
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 GTC
 Location: Sydney, NSW
 Member since 28 January 2011
 Member #: 823
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Welcome to the forum. Those Farnsworth sets are very attractive. Old radios are very evocative of our early years.

The Mullard looks familiar, but then I find that with most Mullard/Philps sets. I don't know if we had that particular model in Oz as I can't find any reference to it in my files. But I do note online that it's apparently the Philips model 170A chassis in a wooden case.
 
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