• Country
• Australia

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Philips Australia

• Year
• 1958–1960

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 227213

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• Number of Tubes
• 4

• Valves / Tubes
• 1R5 1T4 1S5 3V4

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 455 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• Line / Batteries (any type) / 200 - 250 / 7.5 & 90 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 4 inch = 10.2 cm

• Material
• Leather / canvas / plastic - over other material

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Skipper 196 - Philips Australia

• Shape
• Portable set > 8 inch (also usable without mains)

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 280 x 180 x 120 mm / 11 x 7.1 x 4.7 inch

• Notes

• This radio is a valve portable, made when transistor portables were coming onto the Australian market. Many manufacturers at this stage produced both valve and transistor models to try for full market coverage. It is similar in styling to the (transistor) 199/199C but has no tone control. Mains power is through a 2 pin plug on the side of the radio.

  Batteries needed were a 7.5 volt "A" battery (No 717 or 3717) and a 90 volt "B" battery (No 490P or 3490P). The paperwork inside the case says that the radio "Incorporates automatic "B" battery recharging." but the method is in the "Instruction Book"

  Mains rectification is by a half wave Selenium Rectifier and filament voltage is derived from the HT by dropping resistors.

  There is a switch for selecting mains or battery power or OFF under the handle connector on one side of the radio. This switch is brass and apart from this, the radio would probably qualify as "Double Insulated" by modern standards.

  A protector plate was installed between the batteries and the under-chassis components.

  See also similar model 196A & Fleetwood model FL6000.

  Colours available in Champagne, Cherry & Grey.

   

   

• Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
• 4 lb 7 oz (4.438 lb) / 2.015 kg

• Price in first year of sale
• 33.60 AUS £

• Mentioned in
• Silicon Chip Magazine (Australia) April 2012 P82ff

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• - - Manufacturers Literature (Philips Radioplayer Service Data, October 1958.)

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• RADIOBOTE, Österr. (Heft 46/2013, S.21 f, Kurzbeschreibung)

• Author
• Model page created by Brian Wilson. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 900 models, 689 with images and 411 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Philips Australia