[Vlad95]

I found this radio on my local Facebook a few weeks ago. The original price was 80CAD (about $57USD). Today I looked at this listing again. The price has been reduced to an incredible 25CAD ($18USD). I only have to drive 16 minutes from my house to see the seller, and 5 minutes ago this radio was on my desk. This radio is probably from 1930-31. The Radio Museum labels it as a "Superheterodyne", but this is a mistake, it is a TRF radio.
At first glance, the radio is complete, all visible parts are original and present.
I will have a lot of fun restoring this radio.

[MrFixr55]

Vlad, rather cool radio and for $18, I would have driven much more than 16t minutes or miles.! It does appear to be a TRF radio, my guess being 2 RF amps, a "plate" or "biased" detector and what looks like 2 '45s or 47s in push-pull. The '80 rectifier is likely a modern (1948 or later) replacement. I have 2 RCA 80s like this; they look like a 5Y3 that they put a 4 pin base on. The 80 and 5Y3 have identical specs, but the newer ones are much more rugged. The radio reminds me of the US Radio and Television "Gloritone" 26, except tht your set has 2 output tubes.

I have 2 Canadian radios, a Bulova battery radio (Rogers tubes, they would have been RCA if a US model) and a Canadian Victor Talking Machine (RCA) R-28 radio. 2 unique features of this radio are the Ontario Hydropower approval sticker (kind of like our Underwriter's Laboratories) and the red sticker of the warning that they must purchase a license to use the radio.

[Arran]

Vlad;
I also have an R-646 but it's in rough shape, the chassis is complete, but the speaker is missing, and the cabinet needs rebuilding. I think that the Rogers sets in this era were based around the same designs as Grigsby-Grunow Majestic sets, except in Canada they were sold under both the Rogers and Majestic brands. The tube shields used to have round covers with a series of holes punched in them, my chassis still has two of them, the third is missing. I never did get my set going, it had not only a failed audio interstage transformer, but a failed audio output transformer. I could have bought a better example about 15 years ago in an antique shop, it was electrically restored, or at least repaired, but I didn't have $150 to spare at the time, they are good performers like their Majestic cousins are though.
Regards
Arran