RCA Model 94BP4, year 1939, portable

[SpeakerFreak95]

hmmm.....reminds me of my old Philco.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

@SpeakerFreak95

Philco was the largest manufacturer of radios at one time.

[jim66j]

I was very impressed at the warm up speed of your radio in the video. I just acquired the exact same radio in excellent condition. I really liked the way you used modern batteries to get it to work. I will probably sell mine on e-bay and not use it. I am up to about 35 old tube radios that I got this summer on the 127 yard sale and at local auctions. I work on most but this one is good. As for your speaker, it is original. Mine has the exact numbers on it too. I got lucky and the handle is good.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks jim66j

Glad you found a nice one. I took another look and when I first got it I was not sure about the speaker. But if yours has the exact same numbers it should mean that it is the original speaker. I looked on Riders and it has an RCA part number that does not match, but that is not unusual.

[jefferyb304]

Really like this radio. It seems to me the permanent magnet speakers from this time had a sort of c or D shaped clip looking structure covering a magnet around an inch round. I have some Jensen pa system style speakers ( like you see in the ceiling of supermarkets ect. ) around here that look similar to that one. Im guessing mine to be from the 70's. They were new old stock finds on ebay.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks for the info and your comments. Looked through the radio and saw everything was there but the speaker magnet seemed to new for 1939, but it is rare to find a radio that not been changed in some way. The radio did not play when I bought it. Re-caped it, may have needed a tube, aligned it, and it's been playing great ever since. Thanks again for the useful information.

[speedyc395]

Wow! I love it :)

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Thanks it is one of my favorite radios and I used it just this morning. RCA was preeminent in electronics in these year and it is like listening to history

[CassetteMaster]

AWESOME radio!

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

You truly have an AWESOME recorder collection. Please keep them, they will be very available to you in the future.

[CassetteMaster]

OF COURSE I'll keep them!!!!

[damusician]

nice radio! those tubes warm up fast like a transistorized set. i don't think the speaker is original.

[AllAmericanFiveRadio]

Yes the tube do warm up fast because they are only 1.5 volts, but the warm up speed is also do to low current.

I also agree with you that the speaker is not original. But it still is a very nice representation of that time in radio.