Sky Monarch Vers. 1

Ever Ready Co. (GB) Ltd.; London

  • Year
  • 1955
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 102703

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 7
  • Main principle
  • Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 470 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)
  • Tuned circuits
  • 6 AM circuit(s)
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast, Long Wave and Short Wave.
  • Power type and voltage
  • Storage and/or dry batteries / 1.5 & 90 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 7 inch = 17.8 cm
  • Power out
  • 0.4 W (undistorted)
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Sky Monarch [Vers. 1] - Ever Ready Co. GB Ltd.; London
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, with any shape - general.
  • Dimensions (WHD)
  • 510 x 300 x 210 mm / 20.1 x 11.8 x 8.3 inch
  • Notes
  • Uses Batrymax B103 or Radio Battery B137

    Push pull audio using 2nd DAF96 as phase spliter.

    The Shortwave is actually the Trawler Band, 200 m to 51m (1.5 MHz to 5.9 MHz)

    MW 192 m to 550 m

    LW 800 m to 2070 m

    The DM70 "magic eye" is reverse sense to the regular kind for signal level, though uses the AGC signal, which is on the Mixer only (DK96), no IF AGC.

    There is a tone control.

    Sockets for Gram/PU, external speaker (internal not switched), Aerial and Earth, though there is also a MW loop aerial, loaded with a series inductor for LW. The Trawler band requires the external aerial and earth.

  • Mentioned in
  • -- Original-techn. papers.
  • Author
  • Model page created by Peter Hoddow. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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