Knight (Allied Radio Corp.) Model E10716 Battery Portable Radio
Radio Service Data Sheet
August 1939 Radio-Craft

August 1939 Radio-Craft

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Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Radio-Craft, published 1929 - 1953. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

This "Radio Service Data Sheet" for the Knight (Allied Radio Corporation) model E10716 Battery Portable radio appeared in a 1939 issue of Radio-Craft magazine. A Web search for Knight radios does not turn up very many results, so maybe they were not all that popular. Knight competed with Heathkit for many years in the 1950s through 1970s with their line of build-it-yourself kits. There are still many people who restore and service these vintage radios, and often it can be difficult or impossible to find schematics and/or tuning information, so for that reason I will continue to post these Radio Service Data Sheets and keep a running list (below) of all of them to facilitate a search on RF Cafe.

Knight (Allied Radio Corp.) Model E10716 Battery Portable Radio

Knight (Allied Radio Corp.) Model E10716 Battery Portable Radio Service Data Sheet

Posted December 16, 2021
(updated from original post on 9/19/2014)

Radio Service Data Sheets

These schematics, tuning instructions, and other data are reproduced from my collection of vintage radio and electronics magazines. As back in the era, similar schematic and service info was available for purchase from sources such as SAMS Photofacts, but these printings were a no-cost bonus for readers. There are 255 Radio Service Data Sheets as of April 30, 2025.

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