• Year
  • 1937/1938
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 33100

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 6
  • Main principle
  • Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 455 kHz
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast and Short Wave (SW).
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 110 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 6 inch = 15.2 cm
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 638CS Chairside - Arvin, brand of Noblitt-Sparks
  • Shape
  • Console: Chairside Radio.
  • Notes
  • The Arvin Phantom Chairside model 638CS is featured in the flier "New 1938 Arvin Radios" from 1937 which emphasizes on the "Phantom Filter Circuit (in "Life" October 18th 1937) and in ads on "ten years of radio progress". The Arvin Phantom Chairside model 638CS is a radio in the form of a chairside radio with a book shelf underneath. The walnut cabinet has roll-over edges. Table step facing grille opening.
  • External source of data
  • Ernst Erb
  • Circuit diagram reference
  • Rider's Perpetual, Volume 8 = 1937 and before

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