• Year
  • 1933
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 53291
    • alternative name: RCA Manufacturing || Victor Talking Machine

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 8
  • Main principle
  • Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 445 kHz
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast, Long Wave and more than two Short Wave bands.
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 115 ; 225 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)
  • Power out
  • 6 W (unknown quality)
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 240 All-Wave - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New
  • Shape
  • Console, Lowboy (legs < 50 %).
  • Notes
  • 5 bands:
    X - 150-410 kHz,
    A - 540-1500 kHz,
    B - 1500-3900 kHz,
    C - 3900-10000 kHz,
    D - 8000-18000 kHz.
    Incorrect data in "Machine Age to Jet Age" and "Prewar Consoles". 6 legged base.
  • Price in first year of sale
  • 132.50 USD
  • External source of data
  • Ernst Erb
  • Circuit diagram reference
  • Rider's Perpetual, Volume 4 = ca. 1934 and before
  • Literature/Schematics (3)
  • -- Original prospect or advert (Des Moines Tribune (newspaper), 15 Dec, 1933)

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