Le Radio di Sophie

Welcome English-speaking visitor!

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Le Radio di sophie (Sophie's radios - Sophie is the cat) is a website devoted to the enthusiasts and the collectors of Italian antique radio. Here you find a very comprehensive collection of schematics, covering almost the entire valve period (1930-1960) plus the early period of transistor (1957-1970). The schematics can be ordered by e-mail in pdf format at no charge. Take a look at the index to see if the set you are looking for is available.

You can also purchase the entire schematics database, organized into 2 cd-roms: "Radio Italiane Vol. 1" (1933-1953) and "Radio Italiane Vol. 2" (1953-1970). This latter includes many transistor sets, plus portable record players, tape recorders and amplifiers. A third CD ("20.000 valvole - Twenty thousand tubes") contains a very large database of electron tubes. The cd's are priced € 23.50 each plus postal charges.  Please drop a line to ask for further details. The instruction booklet can make you aware of the organization and of the search capabilities of the database.

Great part of the site is devoted to the repair and restoration techniques of vintage sets. Here you can find a lot of technical advices along with some basics of electronics and radio techniques. 

A growing number of pages are reserved to the crystal sets: the theory, the practice of either crystal or small tube sets, and a beautiful construction kit, perhaps the first to be offered in Italy. 

In the Gallery a number of sets are shown and described. There you can find both the vintage radio of the twenties and the transistor novelty of last year... enjoy!

A technical Forum is available for any pertinent discussion: you can ask for schematics, advice, spare parts or just put to everybody's knowledge something of your interest.

Don't forget to sign the Guestbook: any comments or suggestions will be welcome. Thank you. Have a good time with Sophie ! Leonardo & Stefania

(We apologize for not translating in English the entire site, but we are confident that anyone interested in vintage radio will be able to find his way in spite of the foreign language. On the other hand, we are specialized in Italian radio technique, which is rather peculiar as in any other country; so in our opinion there is little point in spreading allover the world what is of interest of just a finite number of people)

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