• Year
  • 1941/1942
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 50815

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 8
  • Main principle
  • Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 455 kHz
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast plus 2 Short Wave bands.
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 115 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 12 inch = 30.5 cm
  • Power out
  • 9.8 W (unknown quality)
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 42-380X - Philco, Philadelphia Stg. Batt
  • Shape
  • Console with Push Buttons.
  • Dimensions (WHD)
  • 28.6 x 39.5 x 13 inch / 726 x 1003 x 330 mm
  • External source of data
  • Ernst Erb
  • Circuit diagram reference
  • Rider's Perpetual, Volume 14 = 1944 = before 1943

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Collections

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 Forum

Forum contributions about this model: Philco, Philadelphia: 42-380X

Threads: 1 | Posts: 1

I bought a Philco 42-380X at a flea market. BC band worked fine, SW bands did not function at all.  After exhaustive tube and component testing, I found a factory installed jumper wire on the complex bandswitch which shorted out the oscillator on the SW bands.  After removal of this wire, the SW bands worked perfectly.  I later found out this radio was produced shortly after the Dec 7, 1941 attack at Pearl Harbor and the federal government required all receivers capable of receiving SW to be disabled to prevent spies in the country from receiving information.  Spotting this wire was difficult, as it was exactly the same wire type and coloring as all the other wires on the bandswitch, and all the solder joints were original.  I had to trace each wire.  

Charles Weigel, 02.Jun.22

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