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Ekco Radio Continued,
Model A23 Pictured above is the Ekco A23. This set was released a year after the last “Round” Ekco,
considered on the previous page. This
set has no outstanding points of interest, but none-the-less it has become
rather collectable anyway. As
bakelite sets go it is very large, measuring 22” x 13” x 10”. Considering the cabinet is so large, it is rather surprising
that there seems to be so much wasted space within the cabinet (so picture lower
in page). The set is a fairly standard superhet, featuring a valve line-up
of ECH35, EF39, EBC33, EL33, AZ31. The
receiver is provided with five pushbuttons.
The actual stations selected by the pushbuttons may be changed by
removing the escutcheon that surrounds the five buttons.
Once the plate is removed access is gained to a bank of five oscillator
coil cores and five aerial trimmers. To
change a station selected by a pushbutton it is merely necessary to depress the
appropriate button, then adjust the cores and trimmers with a small screwdriver,
using the desired station as the signal source.
It should be noted that each pushbutton has a tunable range, the five
pushbuttons between them covering the whole MW/LW band (i.e. it would not be
possible to set five stations between 200m and 300m as pushbuttons). When pushbutton tuning is in operation two lamps that
illuminate the main tuning scale are extinguished, and a lamp glows within the
pushbutton area to indicate pushbutton selection is in use. Shown right is a glass
advertising sign used by Ekco in the mid to late 1940's. Shaped like a shield,
it incorporated their new "E" logo.
Continue to
the first Ekco clock-radio, the A33
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The
only other notable point about this receiver is that it featured a band where
television sound could be tuned in.