1L6

<h2 id="purpose-and-design">Purpose and design</h2>
<p>The 1L6 was to be a specialty tube, produced in small quantities by very few manufacturers, mostly Sylvania for use by just a few manufacturers of shortwave portables, such  as Zenith - in their Trans-Oceanics - and its short-lived rivals, such as the <a href="/facts/Hallicrafters/mjPB4Tgv">Hallicrafters</a> TW-1000 and the <a href="/facts/RCA/NWyjNN6R">RCA</a> Strat-O-World and  very few others. In fact, Zenith, Crosley and more than a few others used it in many radios. 1L6 based multi-band radios were made by Crosley, Airline (Montgomery Ward house-brand), Silvertone (Sears house brand), Hallicrafters, FADA, and several others. When the US military commissioned two versions of the Trans-Oceanics, they stockpiled 1L6s in the uncounted thousands, some of which still show up at surplus sales.
</p><p>It was offered to Zenith by Sylvania in place of the larger 1LA6 - for which Zenith made production line changes as the first Miniature-Tube T/O was starting production. The original G500 chassis was punched for a Locktal socket, Zenith changed the phenolic wafer socket to accommodate the smaller tube. NOTE: a 1LA6 (or a 1LC6) will work as a near drop-in replacement for the 1L6 with the use of an adapter socket.
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<h2 id="european-analog">European analog</h2>
<p>The closest European analog to the 1L6 is the DK92.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_vacuum_tubes/twnefNwV">List of vacuum tubes</a></li></ul>

<ul><li>Radio Corporation of America (1960). <i>Receiving Tube Manual - Technical Series RC-20</i>. RCA Electron Tube Division, Harrison, NJ(USA).</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_1l6.html">1L6 Tube</a> at the Radio Museum</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>TransOceanic, the Royalty of Radios (Bryant and Cones) 2008 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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