• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Montgomery Ward & Co. (Wards, Airline); Chicago, IL

• Year
• 1936 ?

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 238434

• • Brand: Airline or Air-Line

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• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 6F7 6K7 75 6F6 80

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); 2 AF stage(s)

• Tuned circuits
• 6 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast plus 2 Short Wave bands.

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / Either transformer: 50-60Hz, 119V or 25Hz, 105-155 or 220V or 40-60Hz, taps at 108,125,150,220,250 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 6 inch = 15.2 cm

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Airline 62-198 Ch= 585D - Montgomery Ward & Co. Wards,

• Shape
• Tablemodel, Tombstone = decorative upright, not cathedral but can have rounded edges.

• Notes

• The Montgomery Ward Airline 62-198 is an AC operated 5 tube BC, Police and SW band receiver.  This radio uses chassis 585D from Belmont Radio.  The schematic and alignment instructions are found in Riders (Belmont) 7-7 and 7-8.

  Band Frequency Ranges are as follows:
  BC Band.............530 - 1720kHz
  Police Band........2.35 - 7.70MHz
  SW Band...........7.6-19.0MHz

  This model was manufactured for Montgomery Ward by Belmont Radio Corp., Chicago, Ill.

• Mentioned in
• Machine Age to Jet Age II (page 59)

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Cathedral & Tombstone Radios (page 47.)

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 7 = 1936 and before (Pages 7-7, 7-8)

• Literature/Schematics (3)
• Airline Radio Service Manual (Airline Radio Service Manuals 1929-1942 Vol 1 Pages 287-289)

• Author
• Model page created by Noemi Erb. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 2290 models, 1459 with images and 1787 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Montgomery Ward & Co. (Wards, Airline); Chicago, IL