It's an Italian ham receiver from the 60s I think, 12 American tubes,
double conversion, well made. It followed me home from the Belton
hamfest. Right now it's on the Variac to see if it works. It looks
very good but has a crack in the dial cover and needs a Geloso logo disc
for the dial. Does anyone know of any source of parts? This is the
only one I've ever seen.
Thanks
Hank wd5jfr

Oops, missed one tube it has 13!
"Henry Kolesnik" wrote in message
...
It's an Italian ham receiver from the 60s I think, 12 American tubes,
double conversion, well made. It followed me home from the Belton
hamfest. Right now it's on the Variac to see if it works. It looks
very good but has a crack in the dial cover and needs a Geloso logo
disc for the dial. Does anyone know of any source of parts? This is
the only one I've ever seen.
Thanks
Hank wd5jfr

Hello Hank:

The vfo, with logo, was sold separately and a small number of them were
sold. They come up from time to time on eBay, often unbuilt. You should be
able to find both parts with a semi-diligent search.

73, Colin K7FM

There's a web site dedicated to Geloso on
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvall...40/geloso.html

At the top of the page there's a good image of the logo, maybe you could
copy it?

73 de 'BF


"Henry Kolesnik" wrote in message
...
It's an Italian ham receiver from the 60s I think, 12 American tubes,
double conversion, well made. It followed me home from the Belton
hamfest. Right now it's on the Variac to see if it works. It looks very
good but has a crack in the dial cover and needs a Geloso logo disc for
the dial. Does anyone know of any source of parts? This is the only one
I've ever seen.
Thanks
Hank wd5jfr

G9BF Calling! wrote:
There's a web site dedicated to Geloso on
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvall...40/geloso.html

Wow, neat.

Thankies.

Jeff

I didn't mention it but the G.212-TR came along for the ride. It's AM,
CW only but the Rx has a product detector. The serial numbers on both
are in the low 2000s so there must have been a few made. I wonder if
many made it to the USA or still exist? The Tx has a good logo badge,
it looks like it clear cast plastic with lettering that's relieved and
gold filled. I've uploaded some pics to
http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l237/wd5jfr/
Thanks

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73
Hank WD5JFR

"G9BF Calling!" wrote in message
et...
There's a web site dedicated to Geloso on
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvall...40/geloso.html

At the top of the page there's a good image of the logo, maybe you
could copy it?

73 de 'BF


"Henry Kolesnik" wrote in message
...
It's an Italian ham receiver from the 60s I think, 12 American tubes,
double conversion, well made. It followed me home from the Belton
hamfest. Right now it's on the Variac to see if it works. It looks
very good but has a crack in the dial cover and needs a Geloso logo
disc for the dial. Does anyone know of any source of parts? This is
the only one I've ever seen.
Thanks
Hank wd5jfr

"Henry Kolesnik" wrote in message
...
I didn't mention it but the G.212-TR came along for the ride. It's AM, CW
only but the Rx has a product detector. The serial numbers on both are in
the low 2000s so there must have been a few made. I wonder if many made it
to the USA or still exist? The Tx has a good logo badge, it looks like it
clear cast plastic with lettering that's relieved and gold filled. I've
uploaded some pics to http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l237/wd5jfr/
Thanks


"G9BF Calling!" wrote in message
et...
There's a web site dedicated to Geloso on
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvall...40/geloso.html

At the top of the page there's a good image of the logo, maybe you could
copy it?

73 de 'BF


"Henry Kolesnik" wrote in message
...
It's an Italian ham receiver from the 60s I think, 12 American tubes,
double conversion, well made. It followed me home from the Belton
hamfest. Right now it's on the Variac to see if it works. It looks
very good but has a crack in the dial cover and needs a Geloso logo disc
for the dial. Does anyone know of any source of parts? This is the
only one I've ever seen.
Thanks
Hank wd5jfr


Handsome looking set. I have a Geloso VFO N.I.B. that I picked up
a while back for a homebrew CW transmitter project I'll get around
to doing someday Let us know how it plays when you fire it up.

Pete

On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:08:47 -0500, "Henry Kolesnik"
wrote:

The serial numbers on both
are in the low 2000s so there must have been a few made.

Not if they started with number 2000 !!

null wrote:
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:08:47 -0500, "Henry Kolesnik"
wrote:

The serial numbers on both
are in the low 2000s so there must have been a few made.

Not if they started with number 2000 !!


Serial numbers often start at arbitrary values, I'm not sure why, but
some manufactures seem to like to hide production numbers.

James Sweet wrote:

null wrote:
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:08:47 -0500, "Henry Kolesnik"
wrote:

The serial numbers on both
are in the low 2000s so there must have been a few made.

Not if they started with number 2000 !!

Serial numbers often start at arbitrary values, I'm not sure why, but
some manufactures seem to like to hide production numbers.


Its simple. it is done to keep your competition from knowing your
real market share, and the uninformed to think you were more popular in
your market. OTOH, I have seen single & double digit serial numbers on
equipment, including a RGB video switcher for a DEC minicomputer with
serial # 00001. Ch 55 in Orlando had serial #16 LaCart Video Automation
system at their transmitter site when I worked there, 20 years ago.


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