1940 Philco Wireless Remote Control Radio 40-217
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2022
- please adopt me and I run your electric bill up. Vintage Philco console AM Shortwave radio resurrection. Interesting early remote set with typical philco gimmicks
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Follow up video on remote control section repair by new owner.
That remote set up would have been jaw dropping in 1940. The whole neighborhood would have come over to witness it.
I bought one of these with the remote off of eBay for $0.01 several years ago. That was the minimum bid and I was the only bidder. I had to drive about 6 hours to Ohio to pick it up. I felt sorry for the guy so gave him $20 anyway. I still have not restored it although I later picked up another remote box that was in better shape. The remote boxes used to show up on eBay from time to time for a reasonable price. This was the very first remote controlled anything sold commercially and as such is a keeper for anyone's collection.
I have an old Philco 39-45 I've had since I was 16 (1966). It was part of a rummage sale at my church. The parish priest told me I could have it. It didn't work. But I got it working that afternoon. Beautiful sound.
I’m sure this radio will be adopted very quickly. It has a beautiful Art Deco design.
Best Shango comment ever, “WENR. OK, I’ll just leave that one alone.”
Those are Chicagoland stations. The radio was home in the Midwest back in the day.
This set is amazing. I'm 62 and when I visited my high school teacher once, she had a remote controlled radio and TV. Both remotes were like a decadic phone. You literally dialed in a TV station or a radio station but the great thing was that they were both connected by cables not wireless remotes. There was plenty of length and all the pots were on the remotes. If you unplugged the remotes, the internal pots and tuning kicked in if it needed say if the remotes were stolen or lost. I live in Australia and we had some great minds here. My grandmother bought my mum an Australian made Kriesler 6 element 3 way radio gram. The tweeters are electrostatic ribbon units and the bass and mids were magnavox. It was 10 watts a channel push/pull and the neighbours complained about the volume.....especially the bass. It hasnt been turned on for years and I will dim bulb it when I get the chance. Thanks Shango. You are a very talented man. You have what I have....a 6th sense which you are born with. Some technicians don't get it. I do. Cheers Andrew Melbourne Victoria Australia. The pic is me on the right with my first love. We had a wonderful relationship until HIV took him from me.
Shang's Tibetan Prayer Wheel moment 😌
It's supposed to look like a spinet piano! When the cover is open, it looks like a music stand, and the "teeth" thing represents the lyre-shaped support for the pedals. A wild creation from the hay-day of radio! Love the Chicago stations on the presets. WBBM and WGN are of course still around. WMBI is the Moody Bible Institute station, 90.1 FM now (a 100,000 watt station, btw - the AM station was sold off only last year and is now WXES). And I remember listening to a revived WJJD playing genuine "oldies" (from the '40s and '50s) at work in the '90s.
I have a 1942 philco console that my grandfather bought. Has had one new rectifier tube and NO work under the chassis. Still works LOUD with very little hum. No doubt needs caps, but still blasts out the audio. When I was young, I used the phono input so the thing was one half of my stereo. I am 67 now and the thing still works. Don't always dis Philco they were the most popular radio builder of the time and you got what you paid for.
Its been adopted out and its new daddy already purchased a remote for it. Can I get 200 more comments that it lived in Chicago? Please ohh pretty please... Chicago, Chicago that toddling town Chicago, Chicago I will show you around I bet your bottom dollar you'll have some fin in Chicago, Chicago The town that Billy Sunday couldn't shut down
AWESOME! This is the spark I think I need to get my 39-116 (very similar, except for the cabinet) running. I picked it up as a leftover from an auction, $20. Has all original Philco tubes...
Philco had an even earlier wireless remote radio, in 1933!! This one needs to adopted and restored, it has to be a mega rare survivor. Imagine how much it must have cost in it's day?!
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I had (my Mom owned this, until her death) a Philco "tube" radio/ phono, nightstand (GREAT SOUND, GREAT PHONO,WORKED!), that I sold, in 1990, for $15! I STILL MISS IT! BEAUTIFUL WOOD CABINET, TOO!
Also IF you want to use the sets own manual volume control, all you have to do is push directly in on the volume control and then turn the control up or down while pushing IN on the control.
I’ll admit that I just started watching, so this may be corrected, but this may be a bit older. One of these made an appearance in the movie Topper Takes A Trip from 1938
As prev mentioned, the callsigns are all Chicago area stations. Also, the "Television Sound" was to receive the prewar TV audio for use with the Philco's prewar "Vision Only" television attachment, which never made it to market
That volume control is amazing. Yes it's gimmicky but it was full of great ideas and the build quality is pretty darn impressive. If I were a person of means at that time, I'd love to have this in my 1940 mancave.