THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, March 25, 2010
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Here, indicated by the green arrow, is where the camera in my computer’s lid is hidden. Malzy, Diablo and I are “on the air” now.
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(Please see accompanying article.)
nal photos in our
archives and so I’ve included them along with an excerpted description of the radio as well. The excerpt follows. (We’re even re-cycling history here – a Weirs Times first.) [2002 excerpt begins] Very recently, a read-
er named Al paid a visit, bearing a gift. Al’s gift to me was an especially nice one. He gave me a Zenith model 4K600 radio. Some of my references indicate this is a 1941 model, some say it is a 1942 model. A possible reason for this conflicting information is that this model was perhaps available in both of those years. This unique radio gift was made even more unique because Al brought it complete with the box it came in! Besides having the radio in
Here’s the 1941 Zenith model 4K600 portable radio. The can of Spam is for size comparison and we’ve eaten its contents since the picture was taken.
the original box, the original instruction and warranty information were in the box also. (90-day guarantee provided that the defective component, upon receipt at the Zenith factory, was deemed to be defective by the “powers that be” at Zenith.) The model 4K600, in Zenith vernacular is a
“Pokettradio” (all one word). While by 1941 standards it was indeed small (7 ½ X 4 ½ X 3 ¼).
In my lifetime I’ve never encountered a
pocket that would accommodate an object as large as this! However, for a set of this era, it is very diminutive. To my knowledge, only Emerson made a smaller set, the dimensions of which were 9 X 4 ½ X 2 ¾. (I’m lousy at math, perhaps they are about the same in
There are 4 tubes in this compact Zenith portable radio from 1941, but only one is visible in this photo. The other 3 are hidden underneath the 67.5 volt “B” battery!
volume. But the Zenith looks bulkier.) The model 4K600 operates on batteries only.
(Many portables of the era were known as “3-way” the 3 ways being 110V AC, 110V DC and battery operation.) The small size of this Zenith was made possible by two factors, one a technological development and the other a new product introduction involving no new technology. The product that involved no new technol-
ogy was the introduction of the Eveready #467 battery, a “small 67 ½ volt battery (I like writing articles noted to be fully dimensional, and so the Eveready #467 measures 3 5/8 X 2 31/32 X 1 3/8.) While Eveready had not been in the radio busi-
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