• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Radolek Co., Chicago

• Year
• 1933

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 52846

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• Number of Tubes
• 8

• Valves / Tubes
• 78 37 78 78 85 42 42 80

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 456 kHz

• Tuned circuits
• 7 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast, Long Wave and more than two Short Wave bands.

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 110-127 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 10970 - Radolek Co., Chicago

• Shape
• Tablemodel, with any shape - general.

• Notes

• The Radolek 10970 receiver is an 8-tube, 5-band radio with its bands denoted by different color dial lamps.  It receives the following bands:

  Color	From	To		Band
  Orange	118	381	kHz	Long wave
  Red	528	1532	kHz	Broadcast
  Blue	1490	4380	kHz	Shortwave 1
  Green	3620	11840	kHz	Shortwave 2
  White	7250	23100	kHz	Shortwave 3

  This radio was manufactured by Simplex and is electrically identical to the Simplex W All Wave.

• Source of data
• The Radio Collector's Directory and Price Guide 1921 - 1965

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 5 = ca. 1934 and before

• Mentioned in
• Machine Age to Jet Age III

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Cathedral & Tombstone Radios ((pg. 208))

• Author
• Model page created by Peter Rutishauser. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 236 models, 118 with images and 63 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Radolek Co., Chicago