iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 13/10/2026

Identity crisis? What identity crisis. 🙄 A 10nF capacitor that knows it’s really a 310kΩ resistor. 🤣

Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 04/10/2026

With AI tools already used to create everything from “art” to propaganda and bioweapons humanity is in danger of becoming like a monkey in charge of an excavator who might use it to find more nuts. As his excavator becomes more and more powerful the potential for destruction is immense.

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 22/09/2026

Has your spout stopped swivelling freely. Schoolboy humour aside there’s a grub screw hidden at the base of it which retains it to the main body of the tap. Once removed the spout can be pulled out and the rotating surfaces can be cleaned. I can swivel my spout with one finger now. 🤣🤣🤣

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 09/09/2026

And, of course, she’s sounding great. I wonder if the post Internet generation get what a big thing shortwave listening was back in the day. It opened up the world. ✨

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 09/09/2026

The Trio R-2000 is fully restored and shrugging off her 40 years on this planet. 😍

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 08/09/2026

The Trio R-2000 is done bar putting the covers on. A nice little receiver.

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 01/08/2026

Despite going on sale in 1957, just one year after the first transistor radios were released here in the UK, it produces a nice clean signal at the speakers when it receives a decent signal over the air. Of course styling was still rooted in the old valve “portable” paradigm but that soon changed!

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 01/08/2026

I was able to hide some modern electrolytic capacitors inside the bodies of the old (failed) ones (re-stuffing) but for some it just wasn’t possible. To a casual observer I hope the signs of restoration aren’t too in your face.

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 01/08/2026

I had hoped to leave the 1957 Invicta Portable Model 30 in original condition but it was barely receiving even the two strong MW stations we still have left in my part of the UK. Now it sounds like it would have to my grandfather when he bought one in the fifties. 😎

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 31/07/2026

The latest addition to my film library. They don’t make ‘em like this any more. 😱🤣🤣🤣

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 25/07/2026

Just Wow, Wow, Wow! A shame about the Booster (they’ll sort it) but I am finally beginning to believe that the Ship design can be human rated. Transformative is often overused but not in this instance. 👏👏👏👏👏

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 07/07/2026

From BBC Radio 3 on FM just now. Sweet to my old ears at least. ☺️

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 07/07/2026

From a sooty mess with a broken dial glass that could barely be heard at full volume to a sweet sounding radio. Quite a challenge and one I had put off for a couple of years because of that dial glass. By no means an invisible join of the pieces but it will have to do.

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 27/06/2026

I’ve just spent a happy couple of hours with 14 Wolfhound puppies (2 litters) and no, I am already fully dogged. 🤣

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 19/06/2026

Tucking into a special post-prandial treat - a reindeer antler. 🥰

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 19/06/2026

Just arrived. It might look modest but the Invicta Portable Model 30 was released in 1957. The first transistor radio ever sold in the UK was in 1956 so this is real history and it still works! My grandfather had one so you can imagine my delight when I found such a pristine and original example. 😍

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 02/06/2026

She now picks up California! 🤣 A couple of firsts: the first time I’ve been able to use the stereo Bluetooth output ("stereo" radio) and the first time I’ve had space for a discrete Bluetooth chassis mount. The iPad Pro doesn’t do justice to the bass response, albeit still using the shop speakers. 🥰

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 18/05/2026

She's come a long way from a filthy old chassis that could hardly make a noise through the speakers. And another first for me as she's the first vintage valve radio I've had with a THD (total harmonic distortion) under 0.4% at normal listening levels. Still picking my jaw off the floor for that one!

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 17/05/2026

My first "visual alignment" using my new spectrum analyser instead of a sweep generator and an oscilloscope connected to the AGC voltage. Much better precision and a very welcome doubling of the output signal.The "Before" curve looked deceptively good and I nearly didn't bother!

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 16/05/2026

A bitter/sweet moment for yours truly. The Lockheed L1011 (aka Tristar) was my first longhaul type and, with the obvious exception of Concorde, was the best aircraft I ever flew. So sad to hear, courtesy of NSF, that this one is the last airworthy Tristar flying. 😢 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU-J...

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 11/05/2026

I’ve just had my teeth out. 🤣

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 10/04/2026

I know it’s been said before but apart from the crew off to the left every human in the universe is living on that planet in front of us. Evolution has not optimised us to live elsewhere but we badly need to make it happen. So fragile!

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 08/04/2026

Damn! It’s almost working on FM (AM is deaf but that isn’t surprising given the ferrite is disconnected) so I suppose that means I’ve got to try and restore it! 😱🤣

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 08/04/2026

Yet to be cleaned of course, let alone glued, but the good news is that most of the glass is present although there is a bit of a divot at the major intersection. But before I attempt that I need to see if the radio is electronically viable!

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 08/04/2026

The next patient. Every restorers nightmare: a broken dial glass. I’ve been looking for a replacement for well over a year but with no luck so I’m just going to have to bite the bullet. This one may be my toughest challenge yet. 😱

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 07/04/2026

For those who were a little frustrated by hearing how stunning the Moon looked to the Artemis II crew but being unable to share in real time here are a few highlights which don't include the Earth! Source: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 01/04/2026

After 30 years plus of use it was finally time to retire the Sabatier bread knife in favour of one of Japan’s finest. Now that’s a knife! 😱🤣

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 23/03/2026

Looks even nicer with its knobs on. 😍

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 21/03/2026

The Philips Hurricane de Luxe 50IC361 is nearly done. Just some cosmetic touches but I thought I'd share. Possibly one of the best sounding transistor radios of its size ever? This one, an '07 variant, was probably made in 1975 and rrestored 51 years later by yours truly. 😇

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 03/03/2026

Success - only a 30º turn needed to free the pivot point! Just a quick test before the needle is zeroed and the meter calibrated. Almost impossible to source but now that I have it working I know it’s worth spending money on an electronic restoration.

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 03/03/2026

I’m now making a start on the next patient, a Philips Hurricane de Luxe 50IC361. I needed to partially disassemble the signal strength meter to loosen the screw (green threadlocker) to free the stuck needle. A very scary place to work. 😱

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 01/03/2026

The Beolit 700 is finally done. Not the best sounding radio I’ve done (case induced speaker compromise?) but it had some interesting challenges with three blown transistors and a broken handle as well as the usual culprits.

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 14/02/2026

Spoler alert! The biathlon women’s sprint podium. An absolute thriller: I doubt there’ll be a better race for this Olympics and there were some wonderful results lower down the order. 😍

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 14/02/2026

Why does it sound so good? Check out the size of the speaker! 😱

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 14/02/2026

I picked up a "non-working" Tandberg TP41 this week on eBay for the price of a few coffees. Sometimes you get really lucky! It'll get the usual electronic refresh in due course and I think the teak cabinet will come up a treat with some Danish Oil even if it is a Norwegian radio!

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 10/02/2026

Brilliant Mixed Doubles curling bronze medal match between Italy and GB and a well deserved win by Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner. The home team fans were impeccable. A delight to watch and enjoy. 👏👏👏🥇

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 06/02/2026

A new tool in the arsenal arrived today, a six month old R&S spectrum analyser. My vintage R&S RF signal generator sits underneath. Will it make my radio restorations any better? Not often but I’ll have more fun. 😈

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 28/01/2026

But she still works. There’s still work to do (cosmetic plus a trial replacement of the AM front end FETs) but this Sony ICF2001D lives again.

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 28/01/2026

44 capacitors, three ceramic filters and an LED replaced, on a separate board. You’d hardly think there was room!

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 20/01/2026

Trump writes 'Shockingly, our "brilliant" NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER' when his administration previously welcomed the deal. Mentally ill?

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 12/01/2026

The next patient, a Sony ICF-2001D, has been prepped ready for surgery. 😱🤣

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 10/01/2026

Opening night for the return of the Cirque du Soleil’s Ovo to the Royal Albert Hall last night. As always so many “Wow” moments - if you’ve been to a Cirque show you’ll understand. ❤️

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 03/01/2026

I've just finished my second workout of the year but, unfortunately, my home gym is a much more modest affair than that on the yacht Alpha Nero. 😍 Note to self: must try harder in the next life. 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYk...

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 02/01/2026

And still before I was born by a few years I read that in the summer of '49 the Radio Constructor magazine's circulation was still being restricted by paper rationing. Maybe we've forgotten the devastating consequences of armed conflict? Today, of course, our first loss would be the Internet.

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 02/01/2026

A side-note in tthe November '48 issue of Radio Constructor magazine was one of the first reports here in the UK of a newfangled device called a transistor. Embarrassingly it was written only a handful of years before I was born. 😱 Little did they know how things would change... 🦖

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 07/12/2025

No skinny-dipping in the hot-tub then! 😱😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7D2...

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 18/11/2025

Not something I’ve seen in the garden here before. I think he’s after berries.

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Bob Andersson @andersson-design.com · 15/11/2025

The tree is being “planted” in the river beside the village green. Christmas approachetheth. 🤣

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