• Country
• Australia

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Kingsley (brand); various manufacturers

• Year
• 1946

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 251621

Click on the schematic thumbnail to request the schematic as a free document.

• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 6J8G 6U7G 6G8G 6V6G 5Y3G

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 455 kHz; something special ? Please give information (notes)

• Tuned circuits
• 6 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 240 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil)

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Ferrotune KFT1 - Kingsley brand; various

• Notes

• 5 valve, AC powered, superhet radio receiver.

  This was a kit set for home construction.  It was a "Foundation Kit" consisting of chassis, case, knobs, tuning unit, Kingsley 6” speaker with output transformer, plus valves and components.

   It used a Kingsley superhet KFJB "Ferrotune" permeability tuning unit which would have been modified in the factory for regenerative coupling as used in this receiver.

  The complete kit sold for £12/12/-.

• Price in first year of sale
• 12.60 AUS £

• Mentioned in
• Australasian Radio World, May 1946

• Author
• Model page created by Gary Cowans. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 94 models, 28 with images and 11 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Kingsley (brand); various manufacturers