• Year
  • 1923 ?
  • Category
  • Commercial Transmitter & Receiver (TRX not Amateur)
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 311428

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 9
  • Valves / Tubes
  • Wave bands
  • Short Wave (SW only)
  • Power type and voltage
  • Storage Battery for all (e.g. for car radios and amateur radios)
  • Loudspeaker
  • - only for Earphone!
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 100 Watt Inter-aircraft Set AD5 - Marconi Co. Marconiphone,
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, high profile (upright - NOT Cathedral nor decorative).
  • Notes
  • Marconi 100 Watt Inter-aircraft Set AD5. For small fighting machines.

    Wave range:

    • T:  75 - 125 m. with 2 tubes
    • R: 75 - 125 m. with 7 tubes

    Marconi advert in Flight magazine July 2nd 1925 says:

    "The Marcony Type A.D.5 Aircraft Telephone apparatus is a short wave set which has been designed, after much research, to provide communications between small machines without in any way imparing their fighting efficiency. The trailing aerial has been eliminated, its place being taken by a fixed aerial built into the structure of the machine."

  • Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
  • 30.5 kg / 67 lb 2.9 oz (67.181 lb)
  • Mentioned in
  • Flight : the aircraft engineer & airships, UK May 29th 1924 p-343
  • Author
  • Model page created by Miguel Bravo-Cos. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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