• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Sonora Radio & Telev. Corp.; Chicago (IL)

• Year
• 1938/1939

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 252688

• • alternative name: Sonora Electric Phono

• Number of Tubes
• 4

• Valves / Tubes

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common)

• Power type and voltage
• Storage and/or dry batteries

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil)

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: PL-29 Playboy - Sonora Radio & Telev. Corp.;

• Shape
• Portable set > 8 inch (also usable without mains)

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 9 x 9 x 7 inch / 229 x 229 x 178 mm

• Notes

• Tunes 1720 to 535 kc.

• Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
• 9.25 lb (9 lb 4 oz) / 4.200 kg

• Price in first year of sale
• 19.95 $

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Radio Retailing (Radio & Television R.) (May 1939 page 34)

• Literature/Schematics (3)
• -- Original prospect or advert (The Sonora Folder for 1939.)

• Author
• Model page created by Ernst Erb. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 345 models, 207 with images and 259 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Sonora Radio & Telev. Corp.; Chicago (IL)