Zenith TRANS-OCEANIC H500 - General Features

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