• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Arvin, brand of Noblitt-Sparks Industries

• Year
• 1941

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 33042

Click on the schematic thumbnail to request the schematic as a free document.

• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 12SA7GT 12SK7GT 12SQ7GT 50L6GT 35Z5GT

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 455 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• AC/DC-set / 110 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)

• Material
• Catalin (a brand name for a thermosetting polymer popular in the 1930s and 1940s - a phenol formaldehyde resin - like Bakelite, but a two-stage process with a lot of work afterwards).

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 532 Ch= RE-92 - Arvin, brand of Noblitt-Sparks

• Shape
• Tablemodel without push buttons, Mantel/Midget/Compact up to 14

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 8.25 x 6 x 5.25 inch / 210 x 152 x 133 mm

• Notes

• 550 kHz - 1.700 kHz. Home radio. Arvin model 532 with chassis RE-92 is given in "Radio Retailing" of September 1941 on page 15 as ad and on page 31 as a new model by the editor. On the ad we find size 8.5 x 6 x 5.25 inch, and on page 31 it is 8.25 x 6 x 5.25 inch. We use the latter which seems to be more exact.

   

  Colours and material:                       

  Catalin

  model 532: maroon & yellow or yellow & tortoise

  model 532A: onyx & tortoise

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Source of data
• Collector's Guide to Antique Radios 4. Edition

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 13 = 1942 and before

• Mentioned in
• The Radio Collector's Directory and Price Guide 1921 - 1965

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Radio Retailing (Radio & Television R.) (September 1941 page 15 and page 31.)

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• Table Top Radios Vol. 1 Stein 98 (page 39.)

• Other Models

• Here you find 694 models, 484 with images and 550 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Arvin, brand of Noblitt-Sparks Industries