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Old 16th Jul 2022, 9:02 pm   #1
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Default Odd sets? Rigonda etc.

What was so odd about those five inch TV's of the 70's, red metal cabinets, clip on PSU, hinged panels?
Were they cold cathode or something?
Vega rings a bell, about £30.
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Old 16th Jul 2022, 9:24 pm   #2
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Similar to this one?
https://antiquetelephones.co.uk/cont...table-TV..html
https://www.snellingsmuseum.co.uk/ar...sion/vega-402d
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Old 16th Jul 2022, 9:27 pm   #3
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Tim's write-up here: https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?t=138119
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Old 16th Jul 2022, 9:29 pm   #4
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They have an incandescent lamp in the circuit. Current limiting?

I have a couple. Interesting little things with interesting soviet components. Fold-out PCBs but be careful of the wires pinging off!
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Old 16th Jul 2022, 9:38 pm   #5
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that's right, think the lamp was some sort of ballast for the psu
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Think the red ones were Rigonda, PSU on the back, knobs on the side 2 tiny loudspeakers underneath. I was overjoyed getting one for christmas as a boy. Used to take it everywhere and run it off Dad's car battery. . . until I flattened it one day then I wasn't allowed to use the car battery anymore.
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What was so odd about those five inch TV's of the 70's, red metal cabinets, clip on PSU, hinged panels?
Were they cold cathode or something?
Vega rings a bell, about £30.
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Old 17th Jul 2022, 4:47 am   #7
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Kevin (McMurdo) posted in the "Not anachronisms" sticky about one of those Regonda's in the dashboard of
Jon Pertwee's 'WhoMobile"

My memory of them were that they were good reliable performers, with a surprisingly sensitive UHF tuner. I repaired one belonging to my grandfather, it had poor sound but just needed a wire dressing away from the scan coils or LOPTX.
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Old 17th Jul 2022, 8:52 am   #8
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That's the name
RIGONDA
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I thought they were Russian?

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Yes, see link in post 3
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I seem to remember that the aerial on the Rigonda handel wasn't conected to anything?
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Rigonda VL100s were the old metal ones, usually in a pale green or grey finish. The Vega 402s were plastic cabinet in more jaunty shades, usually red (appropriately!).
A warm LOPT was the usual problem and unobtainable, though the capacitors could do very odd things.
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I remember examining the raster with a magnifier. It was possible to see blue and
yellow dots in the actual crt phosphor.
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Old 18th Jul 2022, 12:02 pm   #15
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Ha Ha! I remember doing exactly the same attempting to discover why the screen looked like blotting paper. It reminded me of the old washing powders with the blue grains!
I have six faulty LOPTs. Shame really as they were quite advanced other than the out of date transistors. John.
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Old 18th Jul 2022, 8:19 pm   #16
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Rigonda VL100s were the old metal ones, usually in a pale green or grey finish. The Vega 402s were plastic cabinet in more jaunty shades, usually red (appropriately!).
A warm LOPT was the usual problem and unobtainable, though the capacitors could do very odd things.
other way round Glyn the Rigondas were red and the Vega 402's were green. at least the ones we had were. Brian
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I've come across several different cabinet colours and designs. The earlier ones were painted metal, the later ones had coloured plastic cases.

I thought they were Russian. The components had Cyrillic writing on them and it says "Made in USSR" on the back. But I discovered recently that the Vega TVs were made in Lithuania which was part of the Soviet Union at the time.

Link to manufacturer, including a picture of the now-demolished factory:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hers...ompany_id=5694

List of all models: https://www.radiomuseum.org/m/kauno_lt_en_1.html

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Old 18th Jul 2022, 9:32 pm   #18
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I seem to remember that the aerial on the Rigonda handel wasn't conected to anything?
The image in link in post#7 shows it was just a support for the included UHF aerial.

Perhaps there was a VHF version for Europe, where that substantial telescopic aerial made more sense.
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I thought they were Russian. The components had Cyrillic writing on them and it says "Made in USSR" on the back. But I discovered recently that the Vega TVs were made in Lithuania which was part of the Soviet Union at the time.
Just about everything from the USSR was marketed here simply as Russian - radios from Latvia (VEF models and Astrad Solar), Ukraine (Meridian), Belarus (Vega Selena). There were Russian models, from pocket sets to the huge high quality Leningrads, but we don't seem to have imported many of them.

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Old 19th Jul 2022, 2:55 pm   #20
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Funniest thing about the Russian radios and Tv's we bought and sold was the fact the rep came in a Lada Niva 4 wheel drive, a bit different to the other reps of the day . must admit thought the spares and service info was very good this would be mid 70's.
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