If you asked the author of this 1960 article whether he had Prince Albert in a can, he would tell you no, that he let Prince Albert out and instead installed a one tube radio.

The former tobacco tin houses a radio using a 117N7GT tube. The filament of this dual tube ran right off line current, with half serving as rectifier. The other half of the tube, a pentode, was “reflexed” to serve simultaneously as RF and AF stages, with a solid state diode serving as detector. The simple circuit could pull in stations up to 70 miles away with loudspeaker volume.

The article concluded that the chassis of the set was “hot.” It warned that care should be taken to make sure the line cord was plugged in the right direction, or all of the internal ground connections should be isolated from the can.

The circuit appeared in the Fall 1960 issue of Radio-TV Experimenter.