[electricroo]

Bob I checked out your web site and I saw the first radio that you had listed I fixed one of those about a year ago for a friend. The cabinet was in really bad shape. Here's a link to the cabinet video.
https://youtu.be/Z5U2tVL6cXg?si=KUTkDDqfDb1Quu04

[RodB]

Isn't that a 42-322?

[morzh]

It is, and so is the video called. I think it's just a typo here.

[electricroo]

Sorry about the 42-322 typo. I get dyslexic sometimes, and confused when talking so don't take anything that I say as gospel.

[RodB]

Then you add the fat-finger syndrome and gets more confusing.

[morzh]

I fixed it.

Ron,

You can change the header by going to full edit mode on the very first post. Not the "Quick" but "Full."
This will give you the ability to edit that header.

[MrFixr55]

From the "If I'm going down, I'm taking people with me" Category, I went through the Phorum and N/A to find those few Philcos that were introduced in 1944 the middle of the war! (Knowing that it was impossible!) However, they did sneak out 9 models for the 1942 model year including the A361 from an F1942 (1942 Ford) and A801 from a Chrysler C-1908 radio. before production ceased in March 1942.

[klondike98]

Yep, that model was the first radio I restored back in Jan of 2013.

[DaleHCook]

... before production ceased in March 1942.

Production on the '42 models began by spring of 1941. The only '42 model which I own is the 42-355 AM-FM receiver. It is covered by Service Bulletin 398, and that is dated May, 1941.

[RodB]

Dale, does that 42-355 have the old 40 MHz band FM?

[Arran]

The car radio based models were definitely a late introduction, I'm not sure how long they were produced but car production was discontinued in January or February of 1942, they must have made quite a few as they keep turning up. They discontinued production in, or around the same time in Canada as well, even though Canada technically entered the war in October of 1939. It's interesting to see the evolution of radio production over the period of the 1940-42 model years, such as how they substituted wood for metal in dial escutcheons, replaced brass knob trim with gold paint, and saved on steel by using sheets of asbestos rather then steel bottom covers on chassis, though some still used steel right up until production ceased. There were also peculiar choices made, like substituting P.M speakers for field coil ones, presumably because nickel was a strategic metal, and random choices in tube sockets suppliers.
We had kind of an interesting mix of war production, ground vehicles were typically Canadian versions of American ones, except for tanks, aircraft were almost all of British design, built in Canadian factories, for the RAF and RCAF, and navy ships were more or less Canadian designed, and Canadian built. As for radio equipment, some was British designed, adapted for Canadian production, some was American, and some was Canadian designed and built. I'm not exactly sure what Philco of Canada was doing at the time, if they were not manufacturing radio equipment it must have been components for same, or perhaps gun parts.
Regards
Arran

[DaleHCook]

Rod -

Yes, it has Major Armstrong's pre-WWII FM band from 42 to 50 MHz. The FM slide-rule dial is calibrated with channel numbers from 21 (42.1 MHz), 25 (42.5 MHz), and 29 (42.9 MHz), up to 93 (49.3 MHz), 97 (49.7 MHz), and 99 (49.9 MHz). As is the case in the current FM band, channels have 200 kHz spacing (center frequencies 42.1, 42.3, 42.5, 42.7, 42.9, and so on). As is still the case with FM in the US, carrier deviation was +/- 75 kHz, and pre-emphasis was 75 µs. I can generate a perfect signal using a modern stereo generator operating in mono (to provide pre-emphasis) into the external modulation input of my AN-URM-70 FM signal generator. Although its lowest band is 50-100 MHz, it will easily tune to 49.9 MHz. It will easily deviate 75 kHz in that band.

Dale H. Cook, Semi-retired AM/FM/TV Chief Engineer, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
https://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html

[morzh]

My Zenith Spinet has that FM band. Useless...not sure I want to build a converter.

[DaleHCook]

My Zenith Spinet has that FM band. Useless...not sure I want to build a converter.

I owned my AN-URM-70 FM signal generator for about a decade before I owned the Philco 42-355. I always have a working stereo generator as one of my loaners for work. Mine is an Aphex 400 Digicoder. I own a fair amount of broadcast hardware.

Dale H. Cook, Semi-retired AM/FM/TV Chief Engineer, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
https://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html

[morzh]

I think I repaired a Sencore for Ron, many years ago. We both thought it was the circuitry and he shipped it to me.
Let's just say it was not electronics. It was the plastic shaft. It cracked in such a place that it was not noticeable, until really looked into.