General Electric Transistor Radio P-807B
 

P-807B, this thing is sharp in person, especially the goldish fabric.

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Damnation, Son, you accumulatin' a pretty good collection of Radidios, ancha ?!? (grin) Keep up the Good Work !

Will do, thanks!
I have to admit, I have had a good portion of my radios for years, but have just got around to getting them fixed/cleaned up.

If in alignment and caps are good, it ought to be quite the performer!

Indeed, picks up as many stations as my bigger AM sets!

Back in the 60's we had a table radio size Sanyo portable (battery only) which had a 5" speaker, strong amp and a huge ferrite bar antenna with external ant. taps. That thing embarrassed many a boatanchor in its ability to cleanly pull in distant stations.

My FIRST radio I got when I was in the 4th grade, 1960! Cost 8 books of Plaid Stamps! Still plays fine. Even has the carry case. Yours looks prettier than mine though. Interesting that the tuning dial is reversed. Must have gone through some revisions.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...1960-radio.jpg


To power it, I took an old #266 battery and hollowed it out to accomodate a standard 9V battery.

Celt, cool story. I have some handhelds that pull stronger than some of my lower-end table-tops, so I know what you mean.

Ed,
It would seem it did. It would be cool to figure out which is older.
Mine has numbers 113A7769 and 3048 under it on the inside.
I just added a 9V connector in line with the old 266 line and taped over the 266 connector. I still can't believe how huge the ferrite bar in this thing is!

It appears yours might be a little older than mine.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...adio-label.jpg

Does yours have the unusual (to me) electromagnetic speaker? No permanent magnet, just a stationary coil and a moving armature connected to the cone.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...radio-spkr.jpg

Indeed, mine does.
Mine also appears to have an encased ferrite bar.

Here some inside photos:
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http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...s/100_0995.jpg
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I had one of those years ago. Mine had a regular PM speaker and was a good performer.

I am curious which would perform better. My guess would be a PM speakers, but the EM sounds really nice for the small 3.5-4" size.

I suspect the speaker is pretty high impedence looking at the fine gauge and number of windings of the coil.

I had an old repairman tell me that the PM speaker version was a good performer, while the EM speaker version was cheaper built and did not perform as well. I can't say since I've only heard the PM speaker version.

Oh well, in any case I don't listen to AM radio, as everything AM local is talk shows(boring to me) and gospel(not my bag). We did have a great oldies AM station, but they couldn't afford to stay afloat in the recession.