Emerson FU424 Portable Radio

[Teflon65]

The old Emerson logo came back for a time, on their Emerson Heritage stereos, which resemble old radios, but with a CD player, a cassette slot, and a record player.

[douro20]

Do you know if $168 is unreasonable for an Emerson 999 "Champion" pocket radio?

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

@douro20

I'll ask and see what a friend says

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

@douro20

1958. If there are no cracks and all original and in good condition, it is a good buy.

[RedPortiaOne]

Beautiful radio Rick with a nice detailed review. You must be very proud to own it.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

It is a neat radio and have not seen another one. You have reminded me that I need to take the batteries out of it. Thanks

[joernone]

Rick,

Nice portable.

Question: You're also a collector, and as such, do you update the caps in every one of your radios, which over time can get somewhat expensive, or only the caps in selected units?

Thanks again.

Regards,

John

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Hey John,

When I first started I repaired everyone I got. But now it has to be something unique or I just want to repair it. The early 1920 radio is almost a must to repair but I have a few still waiting on me. Basically now it has to be something I don't have already, like the Magnavox or most recently the RCA 1-BT-32 transistor, which I'm listening to now.

Regards,

Rick

[mariopica]

It starts runing quick !

Batteries should have costed as expensive as

for our´s notebooks today :-)

Emerson was not a loved brand in Brazil.

I can remember in the 60´s, Emerson TV sets

were sold here and they were not reliable.

Constant problems. I don´t trust this brand but I know I must be wrong. Emerson is not

sold in Brazil nowadays. Browsing the WEB I found Emerson LCD tvs but probably is chinese.

Thank you for the excelent video. Very interesting radio.

Mario.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

LOL. Big companies do really dumb things sometimes. And to make unreliable equipment is dumb. I don't believe I have ever seen an Emerson TV. Except for the collectable radios I find I don't see Emerson equipment in the USA either. I guess they still sell consumer equipment?

Rick

[Ronbob59]

Great lesson for all of us in the AllAmericanFiveRadio continuing education course. As always, thank you for sharing Rick.

Ron

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

LOL. Well I'm still learning also. That's why I like this stuff so much, everywhere I look there's something different. It keeps it so interesting.

Thanks Ron.

[Organgrinder010]

It's a pretty blue color. :)

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Yes it is. I keep it away from light that will fade it. Blue is particularly bad for that.

[HD7100]

Another well put together presentation. What an interesting circuit.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks. It is a neat idea and it works really good too.

[RCAradio]

That COOL radio like the art style portable I hope found one same as your. I have model 505 7 tubes portable pretty good radio pick up very strong on RF amp.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Emerson made some really nice radios and they work very well.

[KC2PIZ]

I have a 505 and the design of it from the chassis to the back plate and the placement of the batteries is almost the same.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thats a nice looking radio. Uses 1T4, 1R5, 1S5, 3Q4, 117N7GT updated for the newer tube. Never saw one yet (live) but I would like to have one. Thanks.

[analogrules1986]

Does the FU in the model # mean F?<k You, Lol! Very nice sounding radio and I'm digging the blue too. Emerson back then wasn't considered a cheap brand for sure.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

It stands for Felix Unger! It is a well built and well designed radio. I have not seen another.

[jenko701]

Another great video,where did you find correct batterys.A side note, I told you I am a TV tech ,We still use the term B+ even now.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

I may my batteries and in this radio I used 6 D cells for the 9 volts. Then I used 9 volt batteries plugging them together to make the B+ battery. My fourth video I put up is "RCA Model 94BP4, year 1939 portable", you can see how I use them in that video.

B+ is the original term for high voltage battery from the first radio circuits. As you well know radio is the where all electronic technology was derived. Thanks!

[Hammondlover2]

I have a silvertone battery set coming in a couple weeks thats also got some interesting features. It is a six tube set using two 1N5GT's as a pair of IF's. The AC plug goes into a socket on the chassis, but you have to twist it to activate a switch that turns from AC to DC.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

That does sound interesting, and six tubes, probably has a RF amp. Should bring in lots and lots of stations. A plug switch, it is interest all the different ways the manufactures used to do the same thing. Might be because of patents.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

The 3Q5GT has a 2.8Vdc filament and the other tubes like 1N5GT have a 1.4Vdc so in the DC mode a 9V battery is used light the filaments. The 117P7 has a 117Vac filament.

Complete list 1N5GT, 1A7GT, 1N5GT, 1H5GT, 3Q5GT, 117P7

1N5GT, 1A7GT, 1N5GT, 1H5GT, 3Q5GT, DC mode

1N5GT, 1A7GT, 1N5GT, 1H5GT, 117P7, AC mode

[CindyBradyTooh]

*OUTSTANDING* video! Very well done. Very detailed. :)

~Cindy! :)

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[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

THANKS!

[coondogtheman1234]

I saw a radio similar to this one but it was on an ad for my cable company before the became comcast they were advertising that TV advertising has better results than radio advertising the speaker and dials were in almost the same position as the radio in the ad, is this set AM only? thats a good design use 2 tubes one for AC and one for DC, nice radio did you need to do anything to fix it or no

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Yes it is AM only and I replaced all the wax and electrolytic capacitors. Also I replace the power cord and plug. This is the only radio I have that has one audio output tube for DC and another tube for AC. I would think that must portable radio using an 117P7 audio tube or a similar audio tube would have a comparable circuit. Thanks.