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    Posted 1 year ago

    KenCoh
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    Can anyone identify this radio, built into a hardwood end table (in a pair). Model numbe.r illegible. Made by UABC. What company was that? Why does label say that and RCA?

    Thank you!

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    1. keramikos, 1 year ago
      Hi, KenCoh. :-)

      Cool. Dunno what UABC stands for in this context, but the only Internet hits I could find were for a Mexican radion station.

      A potential source of information is that white label that looks like it might have patent numbers on it, but I can't read any of them.

      Could you take better focused pictures of both labels, edit your post and add them?
    2. keramikos, 1 year ago
      Hi again, KenCoh. :-)

      It seems possible that the UABC reference is to vacuum tubes. Below is a tinyurl dot com link for a Wikipedia article that explains those letters (the Wikipedia article link contains underscore characters and Collectors Weekly Show & Tell software doesn't play well with those.

      Here is the pertinent excerpt:

      *snip*

      "U" identifies tubes with heaters to be connected in series across the mains supply, drawing 100 mA

      "A" stands for a low-current (signal) diode section

      "B" for a double diode with common cathode section

      "C" for a triode section

      *snip*

      (The tinyurl link for "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_diode_triode")

      https://tinyurl.com/7m4a9dwb

      I still suspect that if the white label on the back of the radio has patent numbers on it, more information could be gleaned from them about your end-table radio, especially if some of them are design patents.

      Better pictures of both labels would be helpful.

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