09-24-2023, 12:15 PM
Following my earlier post, I have now renovated the very unusual Philco BP413 receiver.
This receiver was built in 1944 and was a utility receiver that has a single band of 1.4mhz - 4.2Mhz. This would be 160m and 80m, but I think it may have been intended for use of monitoring the marine band / trawler band. From what I have found out, they were used during the beach landings and carried in a waterproof back pack by troops. They were probably used to listen to the British Forces Radio transmissions after the landings.
I have replaced all the capacitors and some resistors and the radio works well with it's quite large internal speaker. The radio was powered by the same battery used by the WS38 radio. I have now built in a Mains Battery Eliminator circuit to power the BP413.
The original radio when I got it had been painted with rosewood varnish, but the original colour was a dull battleship grey. I decided to strip it all down to the wood and paint with matt black. This makes it look much better.
Steve
This receiver was built in 1944 and was a utility receiver that has a single band of 1.4mhz - 4.2Mhz. This would be 160m and 80m, but I think it may have been intended for use of monitoring the marine band / trawler band. From what I have found out, they were used during the beach landings and carried in a waterproof back pack by troops. They were probably used to listen to the British Forces Radio transmissions after the landings.
I have replaced all the capacitors and some resistors and the radio works well with it's quite large internal speaker. The radio was powered by the same battery used by the WS38 radio. I have now built in a Mains Battery Eliminator circuit to power the BP413.
The original radio when I got it had been painted with rosewood varnish, but the original colour was a dull battleship grey. I decided to strip it all down to the wood and paint with matt black. This makes it look much better.
Steve
