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Old 15th Sep 2008, 11:15 pm   #21
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Certainly! I enjoyed this thread so far, another Soviet set can only make it even better
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Old 16th Sep 2008, 11:07 am   #22
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Is your Raduga a Secam-only set? Was it made for the Russian market or for the former East Germany?
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Old 16th Sep 2008, 12:47 pm   #23
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I seem to recall the East-Germans mostly made their own TV sets, but they were forced to use rejected Russian tubes tubes in their first series (Color 20).
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Old 16th Sep 2008, 1:32 pm   #24
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The Raduga is a SECAM only color tv set, it was made for the former East Germany.
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Old 16th Sep 2008, 4:42 pm   #25
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Yes please do put some more pictures up
these are very intresting it give you a much wider scope to look in to
is these made by the same company who made rigonda"s
did rigonda ever make a clolur set ?
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Hello,

in the next weeks I will get another Raduga colour tv set, the 5BG (I am not really sure, perhaps this might be an early Rubin colour tv set), and two Russian colour tv portables: Junost C440 D and Silelis C445 D. I do not know any Rigonda colour tv sets. Rigonda only produced b/w tv sets.

In the attachment I have placed a photo which shows IMHO for the first time in the world a working Sovjet colour tv set, the Raduga 706, and an U.S. working colour tv set, the RCA Adrich, on the same photo. The Sovjet colour tv set was operated with SECAM input, the U.S. colour tv set was operated with NTSC input.

The next time I hope that I can arrange a third color tv set with both, a PAL one.

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Just caught up with this thread. Excellent work Eckhard I agree with other poster that it looks like British colour sets of the late 1960s.

Thanks for sharing the pictures with us.
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The next time I hope that I can arrange a third color tv set with both, a PAL one.

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Hi, just started looking at this thread. I'd like to see this too. Although a digital camera shot won't do it perfect justice, it would be good to see the same image on PAL, SECAM and NTSC.

Good stuff!

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Hello,

recently I found that the picture tube removal of the Raduga is much easier than with other colour tv sets over here. Normally, one has to remove the entire chassis to pull the picture tube out from the back of the set.

The picture tube in the Raduga can be removed from the front of the set. One can remove the bezel and pull the picture tube out of the set without removing the chassis or parts of it.

Does somebody know whether this kind of picture tube removal is also applied to other colour tv sets?

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Old 6th Oct 2008, 5:06 pm   #30
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I think, but I'm not 100% sure, this was also used in some B&O sets such as the Beovision Avant.
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Old 6th Oct 2008, 7:31 pm   #31
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some 60s and 70s Italian B/W sets had the CRT mounted from the front of the set, usually the ones with the tinted glass in front of the screen.
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Old 8th Oct 2008, 4:29 am   #32
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fascinating set. How easy is it to find such things over there? I imagine there are large parts of the former DDR where you can find junk shops or flohmarkts? Or maybe like here in spain you can often just be lucky and find old sets in the street, skips etc.
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Old 9th Oct 2008, 2:36 pm   #33
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Sovjet tv sets are hard to find. Only a few of them survived due to the fire hazards. It is easier to get some from Poland. Recently, I have got a Junost C440. In the next weeks I will collect a Rubin 401.

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Does somebody know whether this kind of picture tube removal is also applied to other colour tv sets?
The Philips K70 apparently, has anyone ever tried it?
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Old 27th Oct 2008, 2:58 pm   #35
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The Philips K70 apparently, has anyone ever tried it?
K70? Surely not? the front of my set (S26K497 I think?) is wooden with a push through tube but I am willing to be proven wrong!

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Old 27th Oct 2008, 3:29 pm   #36
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The information came from "Television", they reckon it takes 2 hours to get the tube out through the back and twenty minutes through the front. I'd imagine they were talking about the standard 26" model.

Go on, try it! Let's see the pictures.
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Hello,

on the last weekend, I got the third Sovjet colour tv set. It is the very rare Рубин-401-1 (Rubin 401-1), made in 1970. The set has 20 valves and fortunately a strong picture tube. The Rubin 401 was the first commercial color tv set in the former Sovjet Union. Here are some photos:

http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...in401front.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...ubin401_01.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...ubin401_02.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...ubin401_03.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...ubin401_04.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...ubin401_05.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...ubin401_06.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...ubin401_07.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...ubin401_08.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...ubin401_09.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...ubin401_10.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...ubin401_11.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...ubin401_12.jpg

I have not tested the set. First, I have to find the schematics for it. The set has a shunt regulator in the horizontal output unit. And the chassis looks in size and design like the early Philips G6 chassis.

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Old 15th Nov 2008, 12:10 am   #38
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Hello Eckhard,

That is a handsome set indeed, I presume with the valve count this set also uses a valve decoder like the G6, must pull my G6 out and get on with it!

Excellent stuff, make sure you post some pictures when you get it fired up! How do you know the tube is good?

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Facinating pictures indeed Eckhard. Thanks for sharing them with us. I wonder how the performance of these sets compares with European sets of the day?

Looking forward to the next piece of news from you!
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