• Year
  • 1930
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 33192

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 9
  • Main principle
  • TRF (Tuned-Radio-Frequency but use of regeneration unknown); 2 AF stage(s); Screengrid 1926-1935
  • Tuned circuits
  • 4 AM circuit(s)
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast only (MW).
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 110 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)
  • Power out
  • 5 W (max.)
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 1055 - Atwater Kent Mfg. Co.;
  • Shape
  • Console, Lowboy (legs < 50 %).
  • Notes
  • The Atwater Kent 1055 TRF radio console used the #100 wood cabinet and the same chassis as the Atwater Kent 66, which used a different cabinet.

    According to Ralph O. Williams, author of The Atwater Kent Radios, The AWA Review Vol. 12, 1999, the top-of-the-line in the 60's series was the Model 66.  

    There is one dial (primary tuning control knob).

  • Price in first year of sale
  • 109.00 $
  • External source of data
  • Ernst Erb
  • Literature/Schematics (2)
  • The AWA Review Vol. 12, 1999, The Atwater Kent Radios, by Ralph O. Williams, pages 169-171.
  • Literature/Schematics (3)
  • -- Original prospect or advert ("L'Illustrazione Italiana" Trevis editor, number 51 December 1930)

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