Walkabout MT1
Philips Australia
- Country
- Australia
- Manufacturer / Brand
- Philips Australia
- Year
- 1962/1963
- Category
- Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
- Radiomuseum.org ID
- 311812
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- Number of Transistors
- 6
- Main principle
- Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 455 kHz
- Wave bands
- Broadcast only (MW).
- Power type and voltage
- Dry Batteries / D: 6 x 1.5 Volt
- Loudspeaker
- Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil)
- Material
- Plastics (no bakelite or catalin)
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- Model: Walkabout MT1 - Philips Australia
- Shape
- Tablemodel without push buttons, Mantel/Midget/Compact up to 14
- Notes
-
6 transistors, 2 diodes, B/C mantel, silver grey with copper gold dial and trim.
There is an interesting component in this radio; there are connections for external aerial and earth, which is not unusual for radios of his era but between the terminals inside the radio there is a small neon bulb. This is obviously to provide a parh to earth for an static or incipient lightning strike. As there is no resistor present, the neon would conduct if the voltage difference exceeded about 90 volts. The neon is shown as B1 (position S2 on the schematic).
- Price in first year of sale
- 26.30 AUS £
- Mentioned in
- Mingay's Price Service (Aug 1962 to Aug 1963.)
- Literature/Schematics (1)
- -- Original-techn. papers. (Philips Service Notes, August 1962.)
- Literature/Schematics (2)
- J.R. Publications Transistor Radio Service Handbook (Supplement for Vol. 1, 1960, Page P2a)
- Literature/Schematics (3)
- J.R. Publications Transistor Radio Service Handbook (A Series Handbook, Page P13.)
- Author
- Model page created by Martin Kent. See "Data change" for further contributors.
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