• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Garod Radio Corp.; Brooklyn (NY)

• Year
• 1946/1947

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 41693

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• Number of Tubes
• 6

• Valves / Tubes
• 6SS7 12SA7 6SS7 12SQ7 50L6 35Z5

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 455 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)

• Tuned circuits
• 5 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• AC/DC-set / 105-125 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 4.5 inch = 11.4 cm

• Material
• Catalin (a brand name for a thermosetting polymer popular in the 1930s and 1940s - a phenol formaldehyde resin - like Bakelite, but a two-stage process with a lot of work afterwards).

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: The Commander 6AU-1 - Garod Radio Corp.; Brooklyn NY

• Shape
• Tablemodel, low profile (big size).

• Notes
• Built in loop antenna. Two-Tone "Catalin" Plastic Combinations.

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Source of data
• Collector's Guide to Antique Radios 4. Edition

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 15 = 1947 and before

• Mentioned in
• The Radio Collector's Directory and Price Guide 1921 - 1965

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Photofact Folder, Howard W. SAMS (Folder 465-29 date 10-46)

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• Radio Retailing (Radio & Television R.) (April 1946 page 9. January 1947 page 19.)

• Literature/Schematics (3)
• Table Top Radios Vol. 1 Stein 98 (page 83.)

• Literature/Schematics (4)
• Plastic Radios - The Antique Radio Collectors' Source Book

• Other Models

• Here you find 380 models, 99 with images and 345 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Garod Radio Corp.; Brooklyn (NY)