Philips model V4A

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This V4A was the earliest version of a range of similar sets.   The radio has no conventional metal chassis. The main components are mounted directly to the inside the Bakelite cabinet and interwired.

General features

Radio type

Mains powered table radio

Circuit type

Superheterodyne, 128kHz IF with delayed AVC

Dimensions

mm, 6.35kg

Cabinet

Bakelite, cloth grille, printed celluloid dial

Loudspeaker

200mm, moving coil, permanent magnet, type 9617

Main controls

Volume/on-off, tuning, waveband switch

Extra controls

none

Connections

Antenna, ground, gramophone

Power

AC, 110-245V in 6 steps, 53W


Wave bands

LW

725-1975m

MW

198-585m

SW

16.7-51m


Circuits and Tubes

Oscillator and mixer

AK2 octode

IF amplifier

AF3 remote cutoff pentode

Detector and audio amplifier

ABC1 duodiode-triode

Audio power amplifier

AL4 power pentode

Rectifier

AZ1 directly heated dual power diode