• Year
  • 1933
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 331059
    • Brand: Defiant

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 4
  • Valves / Tubes
  • Main principle
  • TRF (Tuned-Radio-Frequency but use of regeneration unknown)
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast (MW) and Long Wave.
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC)
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 3-Valve All Mains Bandpass Receiver - Co-operative Wholesale Society
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, high profile (upright - NOT Cathedral nor decorative).
  • Notes
  •  A 3-Valve All Mains Bandpass Receiver, incorporating a variable-mu HF stage, screened grid detector, pentode output valve, with valve rectifier. Mains energised moving coil loudspeaker, illuminated single dial tuning, calibrated in wavelengths 200-550 and 900-1900 metres. It is fitted with a combined volume control and on-off switch. Sockets are provided for gramophone pick-up. The mains aerial device permits the receiver to be used without an external aerial on the more powerful stations. Price in 1933 £9 15s 0d.

  • Price in first year of sale
  • 9.75 £
  • Mentioned in
  • -- Original-techn. papers. (The Producer article December 1933 Defiant 3 and 5 valve receivers)
  • Author
  • Model page created by Howard Craven. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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