General Electric (GE) Model F-63 Table Radio (1937)
The GE F-63 is a collectible Art Deco style radio that has an unusual louvered composite dial. Not only are
there separate dials with pointers for the broadcast and shortwave bands, but also for volume and tone
controls too. The original purchase price was $44.95.
A new feature of GE's 1938 line (which was available in the second half of 1937) was the "exclusive GE tone
monitor", billed as "a new development that ensures amazingly life-like reproduction to the entire musical scale".
Search as I may, other than veiled references to "extended tone range", I have to date unearthed no definitive
statement as to what the "tone monitor" development actually was. I therefore assume it to be little more than
creative advertising, perhaps in truth referring to the "visual tone indicator" that provides the capability to
monitor the current setting of the tone control.
The F-63 features a 6-tube ac-powered superhet chassis with, extracting the words from original GE
advertising, "foreign and domestic reception, automatic-volume-control, stabilized electrodynamic speaker, louver dial,
four-point tone control with visual indicator, visual volume control indicator. Handsome modern-style cabinet" I have to
confess that the reference to a "stabilized" speaker is a new one on me! However it appeared in a number of
GE advertisements at the time. The tube complement is:- 6A8 (mixer/LO), 6K7 (IF amp), 6H6 (2nd
detector/AVC), 6F5 (1st AF amp), 41 (AF output) and 80 (rectifier). The tuning range is from 540-1750kc
(standard broadcast) and 2.2-7.0mc (band C shortwave). It uses a 6.5" loudspeaker. The schematic is
available here.
there separate dials with pointers for the broadcast and shortwave bands, but also for volume and tone
controls too. The original purchase price was $44.95.
A new feature of GE's 1938 line (which was available in the second half of 1937) was the "exclusive GE tone
monitor", billed as "a new development that ensures amazingly life-like reproduction to the entire musical scale".
Search as I may, other than veiled references to "extended tone range", I have to date unearthed no definitive
statement as to what the "tone monitor" development actually was. I therefore assume it to be little more than
creative advertising, perhaps in truth referring to the "visual tone indicator" that provides the capability to
monitor the current setting of the tone control.
The F-63 features a 6-tube ac-powered superhet chassis with, extracting the words from original GE
advertising, "foreign and domestic reception, automatic-volume-control, stabilized electrodynamic speaker, louver dial,
four-point tone control with visual indicator, visual volume control indicator. Handsome modern-style cabinet" I have to
confess that the reference to a "stabilized" speaker is a new one on me! However it appeared in a number of
GE advertisements at the time. The tube complement is:- 6A8 (mixer/LO), 6K7 (IF amp), 6H6 (2nd
detector/AVC), 6F5 (1st AF amp), 41 (AF output) and 80 (rectifier). The tuning range is from 540-1750kc
(standard broadcast) and 2.2-7.0mc (band C shortwave). It uses a 6.5" loudspeaker. The schematic is
available here.
...with the new and exclusive GE "Tone Monitor".
GE F-63. The years biggest radio buy...
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