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Originally Posted by Electronic M
A good set to exemplify the rural electrification going on post war is the Zenith 6G038...A radio with an identity crisis. A big multiband wood table radio, with an antenna that looks like it was borrowed from the Transoceanic poking through the wood top with a nice 5 battery tube circuit and a 117Z6 as a 6th tube so it could run off battery or line voltage like a 3 way portable. In addition to assuaging fears farmers would have of a battery radio being obsolete when power came, it probably also was popular with folks that spent half their year in town and the other half off grid.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/zenith_6g038_ch6c50.html |
Perhaps a reconfiguration of a TO in a fancy wood cabinet?
Do any of your TOs have a similar tube complement?
jr