Here’s the other personal portable that Marconiphone brought out, the Model 20B.
This one plays AM and LW stations.
Bandswitch is a little flaky, could use a cleaning.
Got this in a trade with Bob Thompson. He has the website roberts-radios.co.uk, and it has reproduction battery covers available for collectors.
Uses a B114 combination battery pack.
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An anachronism.
This radio is designed on 1940s standards–using a lid for a loop antenna. All other radios of the same time were using ferrite rod antennas and were shaped like small lunchboxes.
I suspect this radio was based on some of Emerson’s designs, given the chassis layout.
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Here’s another one.
Picked this up from eBay around 1998. The seller said it was a kit radio.
When I got the set, I was surprised to find it was a homebrew. This guy cut his own chassis and cabinet.
The layout is identical to an article in Radio-TV Experimenter entitled “Six Transistor Portable Superheterodyne,” [...]
