4-Valve "Screen Grid Four" Broadcast Battery Console

Batyphone, C.S. Baty & Co.; Perth (WA)

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  • Year
  • 1931/1932
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 255516

 Technical Specifications

  • Main principle
  • TRF (Tuned-Radio-Frequency but use of regeneration unknown); Screengrid 1926-1935
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast only (MW).
  • Power type and voltage
  • Storage and/or dry batteries / 4 or 6 & ? Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Magnetic loudspeaker (reed) generic.
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 4-Valve "Screen Grid Four" Broadcast Battery Console - Batyphone, C.S. Baty & Co.;
  • Shape
  • Console, Lowboy (legs < 50 %).
  • Notes

  • Four-valve battery console, one dial control. Pressed steel chassis, finished in black duco and highly polished. Aluminium shielding caps. Built-in Amplion speaker with jack for head-phones. Provided with complete set of batteries, either 4 or 6 volt accumulator, Philips valves and aerial equipment.

    Walnut cabinet.

    Price: £23/10.

    Note: Called "Screen Grid Four" in some advertisements.

  • Price in first year of sale
  • 23.50 Aus£
  • Mentioned in
  • South Western Advertiser (Perth), 9 Oct 1931
  • Literature/Schematics (1)
  • Sunday Times (Perth), 10 Jan 1932

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