All Mains Superhet Receiver 5-Valve Receiver

Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) - Defiant; Manchester

  • Year
  • 1933
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 331066
    • Brand: Defiant

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 6
  • Valves / Tubes
  • Main principle
  • Superheterodyne (common)
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast (MW) and Long Wave.
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC)
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: All Mains Superhet Receiver 5-Valve Receiver - Co-operative Wholesale Society
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, high profile (upright - NOT Cathedral nor decorative).
  • Notes
  • An all mains superhet 5-valve receiver which incorporates a single valve oscillator detector followed by a variable-mu intermediate amplifier, screened grid second detector and a power pentode output valve, with a valve rectifier.  It has a mains energised moving coil speaker. There is illuminated single dial tuning calibrated in wave lengths of 200-550 and 1,000-2,000 metres. It is fitted with a combined volume control and on-off switch. Sockets and switch are provided for a gramophone pick-up, and a mains aerial which enables the more powerful stations to be received without an external aerial. Price in 1933 13 guineas.

  • Mentioned in
  • -- Original-techn. papers. (The Producer article December 1933 Defiant 3 and 5 valve receivers)
  • Author
  • Model page created by Howard Craven. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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