General Features - Zenith TRANS-OCEANIC H500 Operating Manual

There
Is
a World of Entertainment
and
Pleasure
In
Your
New
Zenith Portable
Your
Zenith Super Trans-Oceanic
portable will
operate
on
battery or
110 Volt
AC-DC
current.
It
uses
a
selenium
rectifier
and
is
a
5
tube
superheterodyne
radio,
covering
the
standard broadcast,
foreign
domes-
tic
shortwave
bands,
and
has
continuous short-wave coverage
from
2
to
8 megacycles (38
to
150 meters)
.
It
has seven
tuned
circuits,
and
a 3
sec-
tion
tuning condenser with
a
tuned
radio
frequency
stage
insuring
maxi-
mum
sensitivity
and
selectivity.
Freedom from
blasting
on powerful
stations
is
assured by a
new
automatic
volume
control circuit
which
controls
3
tubes
on
the
broadcast band,
A
Deluxe
Alnico
5,
rubber
mounted, permanent magnet,
speaker
in
conjunction
with an
improved
audio system provides
finer
tone than ever
before.
The
four button
"RADIORGAN''
tone control permits selection
of
16
different
tone combinations.
The
built in
removable
WAVE-
MAGNET
provides reception
in trains,
planes,
automobiles,
boats,
and
steel
constructed buildings.
This standard
Wavemagnet
is
located
on
the inside of the front cover
and
a
special
extension
cable
is
provided
for
its
use
on
windows
of automobiles, planes,
trains, etc.
To
bring
in
shortwave
stations
with
greatly
added volume turning
the
knob on
the
top
right
hand
corner of the
cabinet allows
a
WAVEROD
Antenna
to
snap up, which,
when
fully
extended, provides increased pick
up
for
shortwave reception.
Two
terminals
have been provided
at
the
left
rear
of the chassis
marked "A" and
for external
antenna
and ground
connections.
These
are
for use
in areas
of
extremely
low
signal strength.
By
merely
connecting an
external
antenna and ground
to
these terminals, signals
previously impossible
to
obtain
are in
many
cases
received
with
the
volume and
clarity
of local broadcasts.
This
external
antenna and
ground
is
ay(omatically
connected
to
the
proper standard or
shortwave
circuit
when
the operator presses the
band
selector buttons.
The band
selector
buttons
on
the front
panel provide an
easy
means
of selecting the
standard broadcast
(BC)
or the
shortwave
band
most
suitable to
the
time
of day.
Each shortwave band
is
electrically
SPREAD,
which means
that stations are
separated
from
each other
to a