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Originally Posted by sean
It appears so. The first one should tune 88-108Mc on the 201-299 band and 42-50Mc on the 21-99 band (42.1 to 49.9Mc). The Stromberg Carlson radio would tune 88-108Mc on the 200-300 band and 42-50Mc on the 20-100 band (I would assume 42.0 to 51.0Mc).
BTW, the first photo is also a Stromberg Carlson:
http://www.radioatticarchives.com/radio.htm?radio=3198 |
Some older (late '40s) Zenith radios also tuned AM and both FM bands, although the old FM scale on these sets was actually calibrated in MHz (mc) rather than channel numbers on that range. The radios I'm thinking of are the old Zeniths with the arc-shaped tuning dials and the ones with round dials and a "Tone Register" tone control system. I am guessing the latter were made in the late '40s as well, owing to the presence of the old 40-MHz FM band which was eliminated from all Zenith, et al. FM radios after all FM broadcasting transitioned to 88-108 MHz by 1949 or thereabouts.
There may be next to nothing to hear on the old 42-50 Mc. band today, although I suppose one could overhear old cordless telephones which operated on the old 46-49 MHz range if such are still in existence nowadays, which I doubt -- all current cordless telephones now operate in the GHz [gigahertz] range. Most of the old 46-49MHz cordless phones have probably been scrapped, due to being forced into obsolescence by the new 5.8 GHz phones now in use.