- Country
- United States of America (USA)
- Manufacturer / Brand
- Federal Radio Corp. / Federal Telephone & Telegraph Co.; Buffalo, NY
- Year
- 1946
- Category
- Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
- Radiomuseum.org ID
- 40384
-
- alternative name: Federal Recorder || Federal Tel. & Radio || Federal T&T
- Brand: Orthosonic / Ortho-Sonic
Click on the schematic thumbnail to request the schematic as a free document.
- Number of Tubes
- 5
- Main principle
- Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 455 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)
- Tuned circuits
- 6 AM circuit(s)
- Wave bands
- Broadcast only (MW).
- Power type and voltage
- AC/DC-set / 110 Volt
- Loudspeaker
- Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 5 inch = 12.7 cm
- Material
- Catalin (a brand name for a thermosetting polymer popular in the 1930s and 1940s - a phenol formaldehyde resin - like Bakelite, but a two-stage process with a lot of work afterwards).
- from Radiomuseum.org
- Model: 1024TB - Federal Radio Corp. / Federal
- Shape
- Tablemodel, low profile (big size).
- Dimensions (WHD)
- 13 x 8.75 x 8.5 inch / 330 x 222 x 216 mm
- Notes
- Bunis/Slusser call it black Catalin. Machine Age says Bakelite.
- External source of data
- Ernst Erb
- Source of data
- Collector's Guide to Antique Radios (7th Edition)
- Circuit diagram reference
- Rider's Perpetual, Volume 17 = 1948 and before
- Mentioned in
- Machine Age to Jet Age III
- Other Models
-
Here you find 205 models, 90 with images and 133 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
All listed radios etc. from Federal Radio Corp. / Federal Telephone & Telegraph Co.; Buffalo, NY