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 Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 10:36:08 AM on 13 July 2010.
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 Wa2ise
 Location: Oradell, US
 Member since 2 April 2010
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Bought this radio, a Philco model 401, just a few months ago.

Philco 401
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It runs on 240VAC, has a power transformer, uses 4 tubes: ECH42, EAF42, EL41 and EZ40. It picked up several stations in the New York City area with not much of an antenna (a steel desk). It was quite happy with 240V.60Hz (most American homes are fed center tapped 240VAC, yielding a pair of 120V mains, and I have a special outlet fed by both),
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