• Country
• Argentina

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Philips Argentina, FAPESA, Miniwatt tubes; Buenos Aires

• Year
• 1938

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 183199

• Number of Tubes
• 9

• Valves / Tubes
• EF8 EH2 EBC3 EF5 EM1 EBC3 EBC3 EL3 EL3

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 475 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast plus more than 2 Short Wave bands.

• Details
• Record Player (perh.Changer)

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 110 - 245 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 10 inch = 25.4 cm

• Power out
• 18 W (unknown quality)

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Opera 769 - Philips Argentina, FAPESA,

• Shape
• Console with any shape - in general

• Notes
• Equipped with Miniwatt "Silentodo" EF8 tube that eliminates background noise.
  Continuous tuning from 5 to 580 Meters in 5 bands including amateur 5 and 10 meter bands.
  Can be operated with DC by using a vibrator unit.
  Negative feedback distortion corrector.
  Connectors for external speaker and pickup input.
  Tuner isolated in an anti-microphonic chamber.
  EM1 visual tuning indicator
  

• Source of data
• - - Manufacturers Literature

• Author
• Model page created by Jorge Mochkovsky. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 275 models, 170 with images and 198 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Philips Argentina, FAPESA, Miniwatt tubes; Buenos Aires