Does anybody have this radio or know about it?

[JB5pro]

Seems hard to believe most every fresh face there is gone by now.
The radio must have tubes but with batteries.

[Kamakiri]

I swear I saw that exact unit on ebay over the last couple days. Thinking it was a Sentinel, but I may be wrong.

[Nick_the_'Nole]

It looks like a Motorola model A1 to me...

[omegaman]

Probably not made in Japan

[Nick_the_'Nole]

Probably not made in Japan

Or maybe it was, and that's the reason for the "aw... dammit" look on the guy's face.

[Electronic M]

It is a Motorola. I own one that was used as a bycicle radio by a paper boy when new.
I can get the model number later tonight if you want.

Neat photo BTW, think I'll print it and put it with the set.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by omegaman

Probably not made in Japan

Most assuredly not. From what little history of the day I know, I think we had sansions on trade with Japan. No inports or exports for a few years before this. Something about the USA being very unhappy on how the Japanese were treating the Chinese in China and Koreans in Korea. Japan did guess wrong in that they didn't expect us to respond the way we did. Namely defeating them. First time in a thousand years that they lost a war I once heard.

[jr_tech]

Mine says "model 5A5" and is Maroon....Motorola for sure.
Measures about 4.5" high x 5.25" deep x 6.25" wide... uses 1R5, 1T4, 1S5, 3S4 and a 117Z3 rectifier when plugged in. Amazingly compact set for the time.
jr

Update...further research shows:
Model A-1 was built in early 40s, Model 5A5 in 1946 (45?)... so it can't be a 5A5

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

Mine says "model 5A5" and is Maroon....Motorola for sure.
Measures about 4.5" high x 5.25" deep x 6.25" wide... uses 1R5, 1T4, 1S5, 3S4 and a 117Z3 rectifier when plugged in. Amazingly compact set for the time.
jr

Update...further research shows:
Model A-1 was built in early 40s, Model 5A5 in 1946 (45?)... so it can't be a 5A5

It's probably a model 3A5, which is simular to a 5A5, but uses a 117Z6. It's in Riders 13 and listed as pre-March 1942.

[Phil Nelson]

Looks like my A1, which Motorola produced in 1941.




http://antiqueradio.org/mot06.htm

Sorry about the teeny photos. I wrote that article 15 years ago, when people had dial-up connections and I was scanning prints from a 35mm film camera.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[stereorob]

Originally Posted by JB5pro

Seems hard to believe most every fresh face there is gone by now.
The radio must have tubes but with batteries.

JB5pro, that is crazy to think, almost going on 70 years ago, more than likely, most of those people really are probubly dead. crazy to think of.


phil, i think you nailed it on the head! i looked at the pics side by side, shure as shit looks like the same one, kudos man!

[Reece]

I really like the looks of that little Motorola, with its recessed knobs and the front cover.

The Day of Infamy picture is taken near Times Square, per the address on the door seen in the background.