I like Nordmende. Their radios just seemed to ooze quality. The Globetraveler series exemplified that. It is the epitome of what was considered a high end portable radio in the late 1960s: well built, beautiful sounding and feature-laden. Nordmende Globetraveler II At the time, the Globetraveler would have been way out of my league in terms of affordability. Besides, I was just a kid then. Today, however, a gently used version can be found online quite cheaply. With a little bit (hopefully) of effort, it can be made to look and run like new. Such is the case with my Globetraveler II.

It’s the North American equivalent of the European Globetrotter TN6000. Its best feature is a bandspread tuner that allows you to tune specific shortwave broadcast bands individually and comfortably without the “touchiness” of a tuner that covers all bands in a single sweep of the dial. These bands range from 13m to 80m. Not sure why they included an amateur radio band, because as far as I know, broadcasting never took place in the 80m band. Besides the need for cosmetic cleaning, here were the issues with mine: • Shortwave bandspread tuner non-functional on some bands and band switching was noisy.

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This was major for me, as the bandspread tuner was what set this radio apart from many others. • Audio was slightly distorted (crossover distortion).

Socket uses a silly switch that cuts out the battery when an a.c. Cord is plugged in.

Silly because the lever that actuated the switch often stuck, cutting out the batteries even when the cord was pulled. • Power supply needed re-capping. No surprise there after 45 years, but ripple persists.

Call Centre Scripts Templates more. Since I prefer battery power, this is not a big deal for me, but I suspect a leaky diode or two in the bridge rectifier. • A dangerous carry handle that likes to unhook easily on its own. Caution with this one! The bandspread tuner was not an easy fix. The first approach is always to try to clean all switches.

I used a run-of-the-mill switch and potentiometer cleaner on the tuner’s wafer sections. The tuner became less and less functional the more I sprayed until it totally failed. By this point, my mind went straight to the hardest solution, and I began to believe the local oscillator stage failed. The thought of accessing this tiny board gave me a slap of reality, and I bit the bullet and bought a decent but expensive cleaner (DeOxit). A couple of sprays later, it came back to life.