808A
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Year:
1933/1934
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Category: Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner |
| Valves / Tubes |
8:
58 58 58 58 58 2A6 2A5 80
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| Main principle |
Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 472 kHz
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| Wave bands |
Broadcast plus more than 2 Short Wave bands. |
| Details |
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| Power type and voltage |
Alternating Current supply (AC) / 110 Volt |
| Loudspeaker |
Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) |
| Power out |
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| from Radiomuseum.org |
Model: 808A - Atwater Kent Mfg. Co.; |
| Material |
Wooden case |
| Shape |
Console, Lowboy (legs < 50 %). |
| Dimensions (WHD) |
24 x 40 x 12.5 inch / 610 x 1016 x 318 mm |
| Notes |
This model 808A cabinet as Lowboy on 6 short legs, rounded body with tiger wood and wood inlay, brass faceplate, was used also for model 711J and 310. According to "Slusser", the mentioned models are from 1933. For being able to tune in stations well, the model uses a "shadow tuning indicator" or "shadow indicator" (often called Shadowgraph as principle or brand) of 1200 ohms. |
| Price in first year of sale |
78.00 USD |
| External source of data |
Ernst Erb |
| Source of data |
Collector's Guide to Antique Radios (6th edition) |
| Circuit diagram reference |
Rider's Perpetual, Volume 4 = ca. 1934 and before |
| Mentioned in |
Pre-War Consoles |
| Literature/Schematics (1) |
Radio Retailing (Radio & Television R.) (October 1933 issue, page 19) |
All listed radios etc. from Atwater Kent Mfg. Co.; Philadelphia, USA
Here you find 504 models, 324 with images and 327 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
