Philharmonic Knob Verification

[Stephen Scheel]

Hello all.  My first post here.

Do these knobs look correct for this philharmonic?  Also i see no hint of FM on this set .. assume it AM only.

THanks

Steve

[Norman S Braithwaite]

The knobs on your set is one of the knob versions used by Scott around 1939/1940.  Scott used several versions of knobs over the run of Philharmonic receivers.  Your receiver is a late AM "beam of light" version.

Norman

[Stephen Scheel]

thank you

[David C. Poland]

Thanks for the good quality photo. I have the same knob set on my BOL red TV band Philharmonic.

FYI - prewar television was pretty much in the experimental phase, in some larger metropolitan areas.

Unlike today, then the audio was broadcast as high frequency short wave signal, and a high frequency SW receiver was needed for the TV owner  to get sound..

[Stephen Scheel]

Gotcha.  So I guess you could opt to receive experimental TV broadcast or FM

David C. Poland said:

Thanks for the good quality photo. I have the same knob set on my BOL red TV band Philharmonic.

FYI - prewar television was pretty much in the experimental phase, in some larger metropolitan areas.

Unlike today, then the audio was broadcast as high frequency short wave signal, and a high frequency SW receiver was needed for the TV owner  to get sound..

[Scott Seickel]

Yes, that is AM only.  On the AM/FM Philharmonics the dial scale that is red on this set is replaced by the 42 to 50 Mhz FM scale.  That would be the old FM band and is no longer used for commercial broadcasts.  The AM/FM sets are easy to identify without looking at the dial as there are square IF transformer cans on the top of the chassis.  AM Philharmonics have round IF cans only.   

Earlier Philharmonics covered the same frequency range so printing "television" on the red dial was probably just a sales gimmick along with making this area of the dial red.