• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Arvin, brand of Noblitt-Sparks Industries

• Year
• 1937/1938

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 33029

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• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 6A7 78 76 41 80

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

• Wave bands
• Broadcast (MW) and Tropical/Marine/Police Band(s) = 150-200m.

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 110 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 5 inch = 12.7 cm

• Power out
• 3.5 W (unknown quality)

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 518 Phantom Baby Ch= 518 - Arvin, brand of Noblitt-Sparks

• Shape
• Tablemodel, Tombstone = decorative upright, not cathedral but can have rounded edges.

• Notes
• The Arvin Phantom Baby model 518 is featured in the flier "New 1938 Arvin Radios" from 1937 which emphasizes on the "Phantom Filter Circuit (in "Life" October 18th 1937) and in ads on "ten years of radio progress". Some models feature also Arvin's "Presto-Station-Changer" for selecting one out of 10 stations - like with a telephone dial. But the Arvin Phantom Baby model 518 has no buttons and is a rather inexpensive radio in choice of walnut, antique white, and two-tone ivory and mahogany.

• Price in first year of sale
• 19.95 $

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

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

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 8 = 1937 and before

• Mentioned in
• Radio Retailing (Radio & Television R.) (April 1937.)

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Machine Age to Jet Age II

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• Table Top Radios Vol. 1 Stein 98 (page 39.)

• Literature/Schematics (3)
• Cathedral & Tombstone Radios (page 55.)

• Other Models

• Here you find 697 models, 487 with images and 556 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Arvin, brand of Noblitt-Sparks Industries