[Boatanchors] Manual Docs Schematic needed - General Electric EF-150 Shortwave Receiver kit circa 1961

Howard Weinstein k3hw at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 29 15:44:52 EST 2010


Gang,

I just procurred a 50 year old General Electric model# EF-150 Shortwave Receiver Kit circa 1961. It was manufactured at their facility in Utica NY. 

It's really cool with an etched phenolic circuit board, plastic cover so that you can see all of the compmonents, and came with a soldering iron, solder, hookup wire, a high impedance earphone (Trimm/Cannonball style), and other stuff. 

The top of the "chassis box" is clear plastic and the base is a square black plastic frame with a pressboard insert and cardboard component layout template glued to it. - No component values though. The phenolic circuit board mounts on the pressboard base and you solder jumpers for all of the external connections. It's about the size of a classic cigar box in height, width, and depth.  

Unfortunately the instruction manual and several parts are missing.

Anyway I GOOGLE'd it and the only information I could find on this specific kit was an article in 1962 edition of Popular Mechanics featuring the kit. Not enough info though - no schematic or anything.

Does anyone out there know anything about this kit? At least with a schematic I can figure out what goes where, replace the missing parts, then build it and play with it. It is quite unique...

Tnx es 73 de Howie K3HW 




      


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