In brown plastic cabinet and plastic knobs.
Gold coloured scale and ornament on the front. For
medium wave and long wave. Model D3923 has medium wave and short wave.
The receiver is very
compact; there is no room for a tuning condenser; it has
permeability tuning using two coils. At both ends of the
tuning scale the radio switches to another band. The red
indicator show the tuning range (GO or PO).
Several model were made of this receiver.
An adapter made it possible to use the radio on 220
volts AC or DC. In later models a UBC41 was used instead
of a UAF41. Older models also used the UY42 rectifier,
instead of the
UY41.
The receiver was made in the colours
amaranth, ivory, brown, red,
pistachio green and sky blue.
Listen to "Perdido"
by
Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra,
with Harold Baker (tp), Quentin
Jackson (tb), Johnny Hodges (as), Raymond Fol (p),
Wendell Marshall (b) and Butch Ballard (d), recorded in
Paris, June 20, 1950