There is a certain niceness about these old tube radios, click it on and walk away, as the tubes warm up, sound gradually comes up, in a real considerate kinda way. They always do instant-on in the movies, not the way it actually was...
Hard to plug it in and test it as it runs only on a 67.5 Volt battery. That's why it only has four tubes instead of five like most of this age. The fifth tube was the rectifier to convert AC wall current to DC current needed by the amplification tubes. This model was produced for the last of the households still using battery power before the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) arrived in their neighborhood.
good info. I imagine a farm out in the countryside, a lady hanging wash on a clothesline listening to this-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkly3MfrpvY&list=PLvu2oOrWFl_NAWjb60sL9rhpjykvxsgLh
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it looks great and I like that color of red. did you happen to plug it in and test it? I bet it sounds... old in a good type of a way.
The cool thing is, it only receives old songs.
No hip hop stations
There is a certain niceness about these old tube radios, click it on and walk away, as the tubes warm up, sound gradually comes up, in a real considerate kinda way. They always do instant-on in the movies, not the way it actually was...
Hard to plug it in and test it as it runs only on a 67.5 Volt battery. That's why it only has four tubes instead of five like most of this age. The fifth tube was the rectifier to convert AC wall current to DC current needed by the amplification tubes. This model was produced for the last of the households still using battery power before the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) arrived in their neighborhood.
good info. I imagine a farm out in the countryside, a lady hanging wash on a clothesline listening to this-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkly3MfrpvY&list=PLvu2oOrWFl_NAWjb60sL9rhpjykvxsgLh
I did not know about the 67.5 volt battery. Thanks for that info.
Apparently 67.5 volt batteries are still a thing https://www.batterybob.com/products/2399-exell-467a-675-volt-alkaline-neda-200/
Speaking of metric voltages...:-)
Alkaline-Manganese Dioxide battery technology. Whatever that is. I'll fire up the Google.
67.5 is metric, 67-1/2 is Imperial. My mistake.
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