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The 32-volt system could also power other specially made appliances as well as electric lights around the farm. Other farm radios, especially from the late 1930s to the 1950s, reverted to using a large "A-B" dry cell that provided both 90 V for the tube plates and 1.5 V for the tube filaments, as did most tube-based portable radios of that era.
Vintage amateur radio is a subset of amateur radio hobby where enthusiasts collect, restore, preserve, build, and operate amateur radio equipment from bygone years, such as those using vacuum tube technology.
Eventually, all of the old CB radios were sold for under $40. [2] [3] With fewer than 100 stores, far fewer than the aggressively expanding Radio Shack's thousands of local outlets, Lafayette Radio remained more of a dedicated enthusiasts' store than a mass marketer.
Majestic Radios was an American radio brand from 1927 to 1955, trademarked as "The Mighty Monarchs of the Air". Noted for their high quality, they were initially manufactured by the Grigsby-Grunow Company of Chicago. [ 1 ]
Like other makers of the era, they offered a wide line of radios beginning with five-tube sets all the way up to high-fidelity consoles with 20 tubes in 1937–38. Philco also made battery-powered radios which were by then called "farm radios", most of which had cabinets identical to their AC powered versions.
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70 Years of Radio Tubes and Valves. NY: Vestal Press, 1982. Radio News magazine, March 1937, page 567, "The Radio Workshop." Radio-Craft magazine, October 1937, page 204, "New Tubes for the Radio Experimenter." RMA (Radio Manufacturers Association) "Electron Tube Registration List" Fender Musical Instruments, Amplifier Owners Manual's, 1983.
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