• Country
• New Zealand-Aotearoa

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Philips Electrical Industries of New Zealand Ltd.; Wellington

• Year
• 1936 ?

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 338258

Click on the schematic thumbnail to request the schematic as a free document.

• Number of Tubes
• 6

• Valves / Tubes
• KF3 KK2 KF3 KF3 KBC1 KL4

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 456 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)

• Tuned circuits
• 9 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast and Short Wave (SW).

• Power type and voltage
• Batteries / addl. power jack / 135 & 2 Volt

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Radioplayer 72B - Philips Electrical Industries

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

• Notes

• 6-valve superhet with RF stage dual wave receiver.

  Powered by 135 volt B. battery and 2 volt 110 AH accumulator.

  Also available as Radioplayer 72VB vibrator model. 

• Mentioned in
• More Golden Age of Radio (Page 115)

• Author
• Model page created by Brian Stevens. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 145 models, 139 with images and 116 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Philips Electrical Industries of New Zealand Ltd.; Wellington