• 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
• 33061

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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: 568-A Phantom Belle Ch= 518 - Arvin, brand of Noblitt-Sparks

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

• Notes
• The Arvin Phantom Belle model 568-A 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 Belle model 568-A has no buttons. It is a smaller table radio in walnut and two-tone ivory and mahogany finish with 5 wrap-around vertical grille bars.

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

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

• Other Models

• Here you find 695 models, 485 with images and 552 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Arvin, brand of Noblitt-Sparks Industries