Roy's antique radios and electronics
old farm radio tubes  

Farm radios

These are battery powered farm radios from the 1930's and 40's. Please click on a thumbnail below for larger pictures and more info.

 

Farm radios were produced in the 1930's and 1940's for use in rural areas where 115vac supply was not available. Various dc power sources were used.
  Sentinal 80B
Sentinal model 80B 167-S 		  Unknown farm radio
Unknown farm radio 		 
 

The Sentinal radio above is marked as a 2v radio as it uses 2v filament tubes. A 5E1 ballast tube is used to regulate the tube heater current, so that the filament 'A' supply can use either 2v re-chargeable cells or a 3v dry cell battery.
 
 
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