• Year
  • 1937/1938
  • Category
  • Car Radio, perhaps also + sound player/recorder
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 45940
    • alternative name: Wholesale Radio

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 7
  • Main principle
  • Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 262 kHz; 3 AF stage(s)
  • Tuned circuits
  • 7 AM circuit(s)
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast only (MW).
  • Power type and voltage
  • Storage Battery for all (e.g. for car radios and amateur radios) / 6 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)
  • Power out
  • 7 W (unknown quality)
  • Material
  • Metal case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: D-37 - Lafayette Radio & TV Corp; New
  • Shape
  • Chassis only or for «building in»
  • Dimensions (WHD)
  • 11.25 x 7.375 x 5.375 inch / 286 x 187 x 137 mm
  • Notes
  • The Lafayette "custom built 7 tube superhet DeLuxe model D-37 has a plug-in vibrator. The catalog no. 68: "7 watts undistorted output from the 6N7G twin-triode power output tube. Tone control, automatic volume control, sensitivity control." Listprice less control mounting kit is $ 61.90 and Lafayette price $ 30.95. Mounting plates, dials and knobs are supplied for $ 1.00. Extra dynamic speaker to place outside the parked car is model 986 for $ 6.95. See details and summaries for the Lafayette catalog no. 68.
  • Price in first year of sale
  • 31.00 $
  • External source of data
  • Ernst Erb
  • Circuit diagram reference
  • Rider's Perpetual, Volume 14 = 1944 = before 1943
  • Literature/Schematics (1)
  • Lafayette Radio Catalog (Lafayette Spring and Summer catalog no. 68 for 1937, page 103 and 1938 Lafayette Catalog Nº 69.)

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