Very different dial design for a cathedral radio. Knob is in the center of the dial. Was a very cheap way of using the air capacitor inside the chassis . Usually a metal recessed plate was used separately around the frequency dial.Think the cabinet is from a Majestic 105 or 196! Not Rogers Majestic . Chassis appears to be a Grinsby -Grunow from 1934 or so and was a bankruptcy sold item as a store bought radio by some store's name. Sounds pretty good with Bluetooth !!! That 9 tube Stromberg Carlson 340W is a cool looking corner cabinet type highboy. The bottom has an acoustical labyrith type baffle box behind the speaker to increase tone reproduction and fixed up sounds magnificent.
Since I don't see any IF adjustment trimmers, this looks like a TRF set. But it's only a two gang tuning cap, so it must be a single tuned RF stage. That number of tubes makes more sense for a superhet. Maybe there is on untuned RF stage? Looks like three pentodes and a power pentode output + rectifier. OUtput is a directly heated cathode version of the 6F6 (#47) with a 2.5 volt heater, so I'm guessing the pentodes are also 2.5 volt heaters (#57 and #58?). It sure sounds like a superhet though.
That radio is awesome, and yeah, with 47's in the front end and an 80 rectifier, it's an oldie. I wish your museum had an online sales site, I bet you guys could turn a tidy profit
I am almost sure the radio is a Rogers Majestic. And the on and off volume knob on this radio is not original to the radio. The tuning knob is correct.
You know what would be nice and too bad they are no longer on the AM dial there but they still stream online (via TuneIn) is KABL (they caught hell from the FCC for listing Oakland first instead of San Francisco and went as far as to say 960 on your Oakland dial on your Oakland radio, even though they were licensed to San Francisco and FCC rules state that you must identify your city of license first) but even though they tried to identify with Oakland they were and even the call sign paid homage to a San Francisco landmark (the cable cars) and naturally a San Francisco station and very successful too and has a very loyal following and that’s why it still lives on as an online station (in fact many of the great radio stations of their era still live on as online stations KYA also in San Francisco is one that is still heard online just like we have one of our great 60’s & 70’s AM stations online as well (WIXY1260ONLINE)) so check it out (and I got hooked on WDVX as well see what you did it’s now one of my favorites on TuneIn so are the other stations I just mentioned)
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That poor old thing was somebody's pride and joy, paid for with hard-earned Great Depression dollars. And it still sings!
You’re so right. People worked hard to have what little they had. They appreciated what they had more back then than what they do now.
Beautifull old radios.
when you turned the radio around that last time, it look like the one tube was red plating
Mr. Radio with the mystery radio. Nice old set.
I always enjoy your videos. As I have said before i learn something new every time.
Very different dial design for a cathedral radio. Knob is in the center of the dial. Was a very cheap way of using the air
capacitor inside the chassis . Usually a metal recessed plate was used separately around the frequency dial.Think the
cabinet is from a Majestic 105 or 196! Not Rogers Majestic . Chassis appears to be a Grinsby -Grunow from 1934 or
so and was a bankruptcy sold item as a store bought radio by some store's name. Sounds pretty good with Bluetooth !!!
That 9 tube Stromberg Carlson 340W is a cool looking corner cabinet type highboy. The bottom has an acoustical labyrith
type baffle box behind the speaker to increase tone reproduction and fixed up sounds magnificent.
Another great video… Agreed though, daylight savings is dumb… We hate it in the UK too…
That's a really pretty radio!
Since I don't see any IF adjustment trimmers, this looks like a TRF set. But it's only a two gang tuning cap, so it must be a single tuned RF stage. That number of tubes makes more sense for a superhet. Maybe there is on untuned RF stage? Looks like three pentodes and a power pentode output + rectifier. OUtput is a directly heated cathode version of the 6F6 (#47) with a 2.5 volt heater, so I'm guessing the pentodes are also 2.5 volt heaters (#57 and #58?). It sure sounds like a superhet though.
That radio is awesome, and yeah, with 47's in the front end and an 80 rectifier, it's an oldie. I wish your museum had an online sales site, I bet you guys could turn a tidy profit
Tombstone radio ? Here on the east coast I've them referred to as 'cathedral radios'
I am almost sure the radio is a Rogers Majestic. And the on and off volume knob on this radio is not original to the radio. The tuning knob is correct.
I gets darker, earlier because DST ended.
They're keeping Daylight Savings Time on in the US after the time changes again on March 13th.
This is not been made law yet.
Interesting. And yes, hair has been raised.
You know what would be nice and too bad they are no longer on the AM dial there but they still stream online (via TuneIn) is KABL (they caught hell from the FCC for listing Oakland first instead of San Francisco and went as far as to say 960 on your Oakland dial on your Oakland radio, even though they were licensed to San Francisco and FCC rules state that you must identify your city of license first) but even though they tried to identify with Oakland they were and even the call sign paid homage to a San Francisco landmark (the cable cars) and naturally a San Francisco station and very successful too and has a very loyal following and that’s why it still lives on as an online station (in fact many of the great radio stations of their era still live on as online stations KYA also in San Francisco is one that is still heard online just like we have one of our great 60’s & 70’s AM stations online as well (WIXY1260ONLINE)) so check it out (and I got hooked on WDVX as well see what you did it’s now one of my favorites on TuneIn so are the other stations I just mentioned)
Did you Disconnect the Electrolytic Can that is mounted on TOP of the Chassis ?
What is the tune in your intro from?
Thanks to the outgoing president we no longer have daylight savings time here in Brazil.
This is a fairly unique sentence
It´s the same here in Germany with the Time changing thing.
Alastors radio
Don't get the hate for daylight savings time.....people are so weak.
If you can't draw up a schematic for this radio you are useless! 🙄