Erres Radio from Indonesia (Algemeen)

door Graeme, 29.06.2008, 02:14 (5992 dagen geleden) @ Hans Op den Camp

Dear Hans,

Very nice to hear about you and your story of the Erres set. Yes, I am well acquainted with the Dutch history here as I am an enthusuastic student of Dutch East Indies history and collect period ephemera related to the subject.

How nice to know that your grandfather's set is now operating in the Netherlands. A very nice heirloom!

Have you been to Indonesia? Old valve radios are still to be found here, and as I said on the forum they are mostly Philips, Erres or NSF. They can can be bought for between US$10-30 as there isn't much interest in them. As they are all 110v they have to be plugged into a transformer as we are all on 220v here now. There are early wooden cased models from the 1920s available, although all mine are bakelite.

I have a few nice Erres sets and they are all in working order and I use them from time to time to browse the SW bands.

I would be interested to see a photograph of your KY107.

Thank you again for sharing your information with me.

I have sent this to you, Hans, as an e-mail, too. You can contact me directly if you wish. I'd love to see your photos!

Kind regards,

Graeme