[ARC5] VT-5 tube

[raydio862 at verizon.net]

The VT-5, AKA Western Electric 215 is a small receiving triode used in many early Army and Navy receivers as well as some commercial receiving sets made for early commercial radio station receivers (early radio stations were required to monitor certain frequencies incase of an emergency when the commercial station would have to shut down).  Northern Electric in Canada used them in receivers sold to the public.  The tubes are not that rare but finding sockets for them is more difficult.  

Ray Chase

 

 

From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net <arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Dennis Monticelli
Sent: Monday, April 3, 2023 8:54 PM
To: gewhite at crosslink.net
Cc: ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ARC5] VT-5 tube

 

Elliot,

 

You might consider donating it to a museum that preserves and displays old tubes like this one.  We have a small WE tube collection at the California Historical Radio Society (CHRS) in Alameda, CA, but I'm sure there are other museums in the US that would be happy to have it.

 

Dennis AE6C

Director, CHRS

 

 

 

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 5:48 PM <gewhite at crosslink.net <mailto:gewhite at crosslink.net> > wrote:

    Among the odds and ends I have collected over the past 77 or so years (I have been collecting "stuff" since I was 12) is a Western Electric Co. VT-5 (D80039) VACUUM TUBE. New in its original box, wrapped in a kind of felt-ish padding and a piece of paper with a diagram. It has a four-pin socket of a sort I have never before seen. Voltages shown are 22.5, 45, 67.5 and 90. The end of the box says U.S. Army VT-5, Signal Corps, ser no 6387 There are patent dates on the box from 12-17-18 through 6-12-25

    About 2 1/2" long and 5/8 inches in diameter.

 

If you dig deeply enough on the web you can find a description of this tube.

 

    Anyone interested?

 

 - Gordon Eliot White

    

 

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