Fifty years ago, this Italian gentleman is expressing his approval at the loudspeaker volume coming from this one-tube medium wave set, described in the March 1961 issue of Radiopratica magazine.

The set used a single dual tube, an ECL86, known in America as a 6GW8. The tube was reflexed to get double duty out of the tube, allowing the use of a speaker with a relatively simple circuit. The set ran off line current, thanks to solid state rectifiers, and the detector is also a solid state diode.