09-24-2025, 09:05 AM
Hi Folks,
Heare is a link to the Pacific 15 from Nostalgia Air:
https://www.nostalgiaair.org/pdfs/Pacifi...orp-15.pdf
This is definitely a Depression era TRF set using an RF amp, biased detector (sometimes referred to as a "power detector") an output stage and a rectifier. This set has a ballast tube instead of the Cordohm "curtain burner" power cord with the heater resistor as part of the cord. This ballast tube is counted as a tube, likely as a marketing ploy to make this sound like a true 5 tube radio, which were usually Superhets. If the case is correct to the radio (and if the dial moves with the tuning knob, then it likely is), this is rather upscale for this set. Most of these sets did not even have a calibrated tuning dial. They were labeled 0-100 like the 1920s TRF sets.
In my book, fairly high on the Cool-ometer
Heare is a link to the Pacific 15 from Nostalgia Air:
https://www.nostalgiaair.org/pdfs/Pacifi...orp-15.pdf
This is definitely a Depression era TRF set using an RF amp, biased detector (sometimes referred to as a "power detector") an output stage and a rectifier. This set has a ballast tube instead of the Cordohm "curtain burner" power cord with the heater resistor as part of the cord. This ballast tube is counted as a tube, likely as a marketing ploy to make this sound like a true 5 tube radio, which were usually Superhets. If the case is correct to the radio (and if the dial moves with the tuning knob, then it likely is), this is rather upscale for this set. Most of these sets did not even have a calibrated tuning dial. They were labeled 0-100 like the 1920s TRF sets.
In my book, fairly high on the Cool-ometer
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MrFixr55
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