Kankan radio receiver

The Kankan radio was manufactured in 1966-1969. It is a four-valve superheterodyne equipped with two germanium diodes. The chassis of the device is made of a printed circuit board to which electronic components are mounted. It was, at the time, a relatively new solution introduced at Diora in the early 1960s. The Kankan was designed to receive radio waves in UHF, short, medium, and long wave bands. It has a broadband magnetoelectric speaker and a ferrite antenna. On the back panel there are sockets for a connecting an external antenna, a ground wire, a tape recorder, gramophone, or an additional speaker. It is an AC-powered tabletop radio. The Kankan receiver was also manufactured in two variants that were different to the one described here. The Kankan’s twin model is the Sarabanda radio, which only differed in its Bakelite housing. Manufacturer: Zakłady Radiowe Diora, 1967 Inv. No.: MIM1359/V-299 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements Licence: CC BY-NC-SA