• Year
  • 1939–1942
  • Category
  • Car Radio, perhaps also + sound player/recorder
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 286451
    • alternative name: Radio Corp.of Australia

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 5
  • Main principle
  • Superheterodyne (common)
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast only (MW).
  • Power type and voltage
  • Storage Battery for all (e.g. for car radios and amateur radios) / 12 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • -Loudspeaker incorporated, but system not known.
  • Material
  • Metal case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 12405 AK - Astor brand, Radio Corporation
  • Shape
  • Chassis only or for «building in»
  • Notes
  • Two unit, 12 Volt car radio using the PM238 non-synchronous vibrator.

    The 6B8 valve was changed to a 6Q7 with circuit modifications during the 1939 production due to valve unavailability.

  • Mentioned in
  • - - Manufacturers Literature (Astor & E.I.L. (Issue 2) Bulletins A-1, 11/8/1947, for car radio receivers manufactured from 1930.)
  • Author
  • Model page created by Gary Cowans. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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