{"id":14420,"date":"2015-08-20T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14420"},"modified":"2015-08-20T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T11:21:09","slug":"moshe-restores-a-ben-gal-duet-stereo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/moshe-restores-a-ben-gal-duet-stereo\/","title":{"rendered":"Moshe restores a Ben-Gal &#8220;Duet-Stereo&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14430\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Full-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Full\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Full-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Full-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Full.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to<em> SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Moshe, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About 2 weeks ago, a very good friend called me and exclaimed, &#8220;you just have to see this radio&#8230;I&#8217;m keeping it for you!&#8221;&#8211;so, I drove to his aunt&#8217;s house and saw this beauty.<\/p>\n<p>After hauling the radio to my place, I started to check it out, to see what would be needed for restoration; it was working, with bad contacts, poor frequency response and low output.<\/p>\n<p>I took hi-res pictures of this radio, some during restoration. Now the radio sounds great. It has been recapped, a couple of bad resistors and bad wires replaced, contacts have been cleaned, and some good cleaning for the chassis as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14427\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board3\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board3.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Rear2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14432\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Rear2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Rear2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Rear2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Rear2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Rear2.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Front-Detached.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14428\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Front-Detached-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Front-Detached\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Front-Detached-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Front-Detached-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Front-Detached.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As I wanted to keep the original appearance of the chassis, I kept the original filter capacitors on board, but disconnected them from the circuit, added terminal strips and new capacitors from underneath.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14426\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board2.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14425\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board1-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board1\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board1-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Board1.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The radio uses an EF85 tube as the RF stage. With the addition of\u00a0a grounding connection and random wire antenna, it&#8217;s very sensitive on shortwave.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-FrontPanel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14429\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-FrontPanel-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-FrontPanel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-FrontPanel-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-FrontPanel-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-FrontPanel.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>About the Ben-Gal Duet-Stereo:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was made in Israel by Ben-Gal, a label inside shows it was made at 12th of December, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>It is a console model with record player. As the model name suggests, the amplifier and record player are stereo (though the tuner is not&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>The radio has longwave (marked in meters), mediumwave (marked in meters) and 3 shortwave bands (with megacycle and meter band marks).<\/p>\n<p>The shortwave bands overlaps with each other, so cover is continuous:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SW3 2.3MHz to 6MHz,<\/li>\n<li>SW2 5.5MHz to 15.5MHz,<\/li>\n<li>and SW1 14.5MHz to 23MHz.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Open.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14431\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Open-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Open\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Open-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Open-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ben-Gal-Duet-Stereo-Open.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks, Moshe, for sharing photos and this description of this beautiful Ben-Gal Duet-Stereo. I bet the audio fidelity is amazing. My father has a 1960&#8217;s\u00a0console&#8211;with a similar configuration&#8211;made by Admiral, though it was limited to mediumwave and FM reception. Some day, I will try to restore it to its former glory!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the inspiration, Moshe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Moshe, who writes: About 2 weeks ago, a very good friend called me and exclaimed, &#8220;you just have to see this radio&#8230;I&#8217;m keeping it for you!&#8221;&#8211;so, I drove to his aunt&#8217;s house and saw this beauty. After hauling the radio to my place, I started to check it out, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,2436,433,3,305,288,139],"tags":[3644,4131,3659,3643,4132],"class_list":["post-14420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-longwave","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-radio-modifications","tag-ben-gal","tag-ben-gal-duet-stereo","tag-console-radios","tag-moshe","tag-radio-restoration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3KA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17331,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/moshe-sports-his-swling-post-gear\/","url_meta":{"origin":14420,"position":0},"title":"Moshe sports his SWLing Post gear","author":"Thomas","date":"February 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Moshe Zaharia, who recently made my day by sending\u00a0the photo above (click to enlarge). 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I caught the station by accident, while tuning to VOA\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ben-Gal-Front.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ben-Gal-Front.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ben-Gal-Front.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17719,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/part-2-swling-post-shack-photos\/","url_meta":{"origin":14420,"position":3},"title":"Part 2: SWLing Post shack photos","author":"Thomas","date":"March 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Several months ago, we conducted a shack photo contest sponsored by Universal Radio.\u00a0I'm posting\u00a0all of your excellent photos as time allows and putting them under the tag, shack photos. 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Thank you for sharing this video, Moshe! \u00a0I truly enjoy watching Paul's videos--no doubt, any radio turned over to him is in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Boat Anchors&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Boat Anchors","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/boat-anchors-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"hammarlund-hq-140x","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Hammarlund-HQ-140X.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Hammarlund-HQ-140X.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Hammarlund-HQ-140X.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Hammarlund-HQ-140X.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":31577,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/video-moshe-captures-an-echo-in-radio-kuwait-signal\/","url_meta":{"origin":14420,"position":5},"title":"Video: Moshe captures an echo in Radio Kuwait signal","author":"Thomas","date":"April 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Moshe Ze'ev Zaharia, who submits the following videos of his reception of Radio Kuwait at 10:30 UTC on April 6, 2018 from his home in Israel. 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