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Yes, those were the days Mal... I had an old Adcola when I was a 
teenager. The "front end" looked like a long coil of steel wire and the 
handle was a "phenolic paper" tube which got so hot I needed a glove to 
hold it! :-) I am too young to have enjoyed the really good old days of 
radio (born 59) but I built my first crystal RX on a 30x50cm plywood 
board at the age of 7, I think the "active device" was an OA79, and two 
years later I built my first phonograph amplifier in a plastic icecream 
container. Crystal pick-up, DL96 pentode powered by three 22.5V 
batteries + 1.5V heater and 1kOhm headphones...
It didn't have 200 buttons, not a single button actually, only a 1 meg 
potentiometer for "volume" but I was soooo happy! :-)

hamilton mal wrote:
 > G2AK in Birmingham had Adcola soldering irons
 > for 1 pound and 2 pence, the solder was free.
 > Those were the days and every radio amateur was
 > chattering away in morse