[Boatanchors] Need more info on this radio

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

Here is the schematic.

https://elektrotanya.com/belmont_6p11_sm.pdf/download.html

The radio has the filaments in series requiring a 9V A battery and 90V B 
battery.

Glenn

On 12/27/2025 3:38 PM, hwhall--- via Boatanchors wrote:
> Try asking athttps://antiqueradios.com/  
> There's a lot of old radio restoration knowledge over there. And a sometimes surprising ability to find information & identify set models with just a photo or tube lineup.
>
> Wayne
> WB4OGM
>
> On Friday, December 26, 2025 at 11:00:36 PM MST, Philip Atchley via Boatanchors<boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>  wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> For Christmas my niece gave me an old Belmont 6P11 "PORTABLE?" radio.
> She knew that I was on a Nostalgia trip to get back into working on old
> radios. I'm 82 and first got hooked on radio back in '53 when I was 10
> years old and given an old console radio by the neighbor (it saved him
> lugging it to the junk yard ;-)  It didn't work, but after it threw me
> across the room a few times when I touched things I shouldn't, and burnt
> my fingers on hot tubes, I got that thing working.  Must have been
> something simple like a loose wire or tube in a tube socket as I knew
> NOTHING about working on them. I started listening to stations like BBC
> London, Quito Ecuador and so forth and goodness, for a 10 year old kid
> at the time that was really something!
>
> Anyway, this set is a "portable" with 6 tubes, BCB only, no shortwave
> and I can't imagine how heavy it must have been with a battery pack
> installed.  I have a small (500 Watt) variac and an isolation Xformer
> coming (yes, it's AC/DC too) and I intend to bring it up slowly.  Who
> knows how many years it sat unplugged in the antique shop they found it
> in, in Virginia City NV (they go there maybe once a year on a weekend
> vacation).
>
> The tube lineup is 35Z5 Rectifier, 1A7GT Converter, 1N5GT IF Amp, 1N5GT
> 2nd IF Amp, 1H5GT diode detector & audio, 3Q5GT Audio Output (speced at
> a mighty 165 M.W. output).
>
> I found the schematic and alignment instructions online and downloaded
> it, but the schematic shows no actual values for the resistors/caps and
> so forth (seems odd to me).  I suspect the set was probably made in the
> '40s as the only Belmont Radio Corp sets I was able to see in the model
> list I found online were all from the '30s to the '40s.
>
> I look at this as a rather long-term project, just hope the tubes are
> good as I suspect some may be made out of "unobtainium". . .
>
> HELP!!  Anybody here have any info on this set?  Yes, I know that it
> isn't a "boatanchor" in the usual sense of the word, but it is certainly
> a boatanchor in the portable radio field, large and heavy.
>

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Glenn Little                ARRL Technical Specialist   QCWA  LM 28417
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