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The term All American Five (abbreviated AA5) is a colloquial name for mass-produced, superheterodyne radio receivers that used five vacuum tubes in their design. These radio sets were designed to receive amplitude modulation (AM) broadcasts in the medium wave band, and were manufactured in the United States from the mid-1930s until the early 1960s.
Zenith kept circuit boards out of their televisions until the Chromacolor line of the early 1970s, and even then used them only with solid state components, mounting the four tubes used in the Chromacolor "4 tube hybrid" on the steel chassis. Zenith began using circuit boards in radios when they converted to solid-state in the late 1960s, but ...
The 1L6 is a 7 pin miniature vacuum tube of the pentagrid converter type. It was developed in the United States by Sylvania. It is very similar electrically to its predecessors, the Loktal-based 1LA6 and 1LC6. Released in 1949 for the Zenith Trans-Oceanic shortwave portable radio, this tube was in commercial production until the early 1960s.
The first post-war T/O was the 8G005Y, designed by Robert Davol Budlong, an industrial design consultant responsible for many of the Zenith radio products. Priced at $125, it was in production from 1946 to 1949 in several variants. Total produced, 110,000. The 8G005Y used eight tubes, (2) 1LN5, 1LA6, 1LD5, 1LE3, (2) 1LB4, and 117Z6. [7]
EM34 tuning eye EM84 tuning indicator. A magic eye tube or tuning indicator, in technical literature called an electron-ray indicator tube, [1] is a vacuum tube which gives a visual indication of the amplitude of an electronic signal, such as an audio output, radio-frequency signal strength, or other functions. [1]
Tubes used in AC-powered radio receivers of the early 1930s 2A3 – Directly heated power triode, used for AF output stages in 1930s–1940s audio amplifiers and radios. 2A5 – Power Pentode (Except for heater, electronically identical to types 42 and 6F6 )
The Zenith Models 11, 12, and 14 are examples of these kinds of radios. [8] After screen-grid tubes became available for new designs in 1927, most manufacturers switched to plate detectors, [9] [2] and later to diode detectors. The grid leak detector has been popular for many years with amateur radio operators and shortwave listeners who ...
The pentagrid converter is a type of radio receiving valve (vacuum tube) with five grids used as the frequency mixer stage of a superheterodyne radio receiver. The pentagrid was part of a line of development of valves that were able to take an incoming RF signal and change its frequency to a fixed intermediate frequency , which was then ...