• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Motorola Inc. (ex Galvin Mfg.Co. Chicago); Schaumburg (IL)

• Year
• 1955 ?

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 119880

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• Number of Tubes
• 4

• Valves / Tubes
• 1R5 1AH4 1AJ5 1AG4

• 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
• Dry Batteries / 1,5 & 45 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 2 inch = 5.1 cm

• Power out
• 0.035 W (unknown quality)

• Material
• Plastics (no bakelite or catalin)

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 45P1 Pixie Ch= HS-479 - Motorola Inc. ex Galvin Mfg.Co

• Shape
• Very small Portable or Pocket-Set (Handheld) < 8 inch.

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 6 x 4 x 2 inch / 152 x 102 x 51 mm

• Notes

• Motorola "Pixie" models 45P1 (Black), 45P2 (Brown), 45P3 (Cream), 45P4 (Red) and 45P5 (Teal) are "pocket" recievers making use of subminiature tube technology. IF, Detector and Audio functions are acomplished by three subminiature tubes with a 7-pin miniature pentagrid converter performing RF mixing and oscillator action.

  Batteries used are Eveready 415 (45V) and one C cell. Battery consumption is 185mA for A supply and 5.5mA for B supply.

• Source of data
• The Portable Radio in American Life

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Photofact Folder, Howard W. SAMS (Date 3-56, Set 308, Folder 8)

• Author
• Model page created by Konrad Birkner † 12.08.2014. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 4596 models, 2962 with images and 4095 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Motorola Inc. (ex Galvin Mfg.Co. Chicago); Schaumburg (IL)