• Country
• Great Britain (UK)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Decca, London

• Year
• 1940

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 202033

• • alternative name: Decca Gramophone || Decca Radio

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• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 1A7EG 1N5EG 1H5G 3Q5GT 25Z6

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 382 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast, Long Wave and Short Wave.

• Power type and voltage
• Line / Storage batteries (perhaps also batteries) / 100-250 / 1.5 & 90 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil)

• Material
• Leather / canvas / plastic - over other material

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Double Decca MB5A - Decca, London

• Shape
• Portable set > 8 inch (also usable without mains)

• Notes
• Portable AC/DC mains and dry battery portable radio with special resistive line cord. Similar to the Double Decca MB5B and MB5C model-types but with different mains power circuit and rectifier valve. Also listed by Decca as the BM5A model.

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Trader Service Sheet (suppl. of Wireless & El. Trader, etc.) (473)

• Author
• Model page created by Howard Craven. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 162 models, 120 with images and 90 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Decca, London