• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago (IL)

• Year
• 1939

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 56705

• • Brand: Silvertone

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• Number of Tubes
• 11

• Valves / Tubes
• 6U7G 6J5G 6A8G 6U7G 6U5 6J5G 6Q7G 6J5G 6V6G 6V6G 5Y3G

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 455 kHz

• Tuned circuits
• 7 AM circuit(s)

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

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 105-125 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 12 inch = 30.5 cm

• Power out
• 10 W (unknown quality)

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Silvertone 6159 Ch= 101.555, - Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago

• Notes
• Speaker 12 or 15 inch.

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 11 = ca. 1940 and before

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Riders 11-24, 25, 27

• Other Models

• Here you find 5479 models, 3211 with images and 4185 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago (IL)