[NJARC] HONG KONG COLLECTOR

[Alex Magoun]

A little far south of where my wife is for the next two weeks, but maybe the
museum links and photos will help her find something similar in Shanghai.
We had no luck in my previous visits, but the array of radios and
electronics assembled by Hong Li Zou (5,000 radios, recorders, TVs, and
10,000 tubes) suggests that either he collected everything that survived the
Cultural Revolution or that more is out there in flea and "cat" (ecch)
markets.  It also suggests that prices are not a bargain, especially in
renminbi.  He turned out an offer of 200,000 renminbi (currently ~30,000USD,
but in China, 1 renminbi has about the purchasing power of 1 dollar) for one
of the first color TVs for the Chinese market, and I expect the 1930s Soviet
radio he bought in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, in the 1980s would be hard to
acquire for any price.  At least some of these are on display at what may
now be Guangdong Polytechnic; I can't find South China Poly on Google Maps,
or any recent Google listings.

 

How 'bout that 6L6C tube in the Soviet radio with the Cyrillic L?

 

Cheers, Alex