• Year
  • 1937/1938
perfect model
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 227058

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 19
  • Main principle
  • Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 465 kHz
  • Tuned circuits
  • 9 AM circuit(s)
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast, Long Wave and 2 x Short Wave.
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 115 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • 2 Loudspeakers
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 51F 18th Century - Capehart Corp.; Fort Wayne, IN
  • Shape
  • Console with any shape - in general
  • Notes
  • 51F 18th Century
    Cabinets:
    The models 50 with cabinet Modern and 51 with the cabinet 18th Century have chassis from the 300 series but less the changer and show a smaller cabinet. They were made for three seasons only as 50D Modern, 50E Modern and 50F modern, 51D 18th Century, 51E 18th Century and 51F 18th Century.
    The same is 60-D, 60-E and 60-F with cabinet modern.
    Also models 60 Modern and 61 18th Century were made without changers, for season 1935/36 as 60-D and 61-D (for $ 495), for season 1936/37 as 60-E and 61-E and for season F but all with the bigger chassis series 400. To all of those one could add the conceiled Record Changer model 160.
    Chassis
    Tuner Series 400-F for LW, broadcast and two SW bands: with the following 12 tubes: 6K7, 6K7, 6L7, 6K7, 6G5, 6K7, 6H6, 6K7, 6H6, 6J7, 6C5, 5Z4 - according to Rider's 8; F-1 Amplifier with 6N7G, 2 x 6C5G, 6F6G, 2 x 6L6G and 83.
    The Capehart 400 series were introduced for season 1931/32 without suffix, followed by A 1932/33, B 1933/34 etc. through to season 1948-50. See here the "Common information for the Capehart model pages for the 1930s and 1940s".

  • External source of data
  • Capehart sales brochure
  • Author
  • Model page created by Ernst Erb. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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