• Year
  • 1933
  • Category
  • Amateur-Receiver (amateur bands, may include broadcast bands)
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 207861

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 7
  • Valves / Tubes
  • Main principle
  • Superhet with RF-stage
  • Wave bands
  • Short Wave (SW only)
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 110 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • - For headphones or amp.
  • Material
  • Metal case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Ham Super 3A - McMurdo Silver, Inc.pre WW2;
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, with any shape - general.
  • Notes
  • The McMurdo Silver 3A Ham Super is a superheterodyne receiver, covering 1.5 to 15 MHz in four bands with a unique ganged plug-in coil system. Amateur bands have band spread tuning.

    There is also a six tube battery operated variant.

  • Mentioned in
  • QST (May 1933 page 63)
  • Literature/Schematics (1)
  • QST (March 1933 page 1)
  • Author
  • Model page created by Martin Bösch. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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