• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY)

• Year
• 1939

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 97197

• • alternative name: RCA Manufacturing || Victor Talking Machine

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• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 6SA7 6K7 6SQ7 25L6G 25Z6G

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

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

• Power type and voltage
• AC/DC-set / 105-125;210-250 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent or electro-dynamic (moving coil), system not known yet. / Ø 5 inch = 12.7 cm

• Power out
• 1.5 W (unknown quality)

• Material
• Bakelite or Plastics (type unknown)

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 5Q8 G Ch= RC-396B - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New

• Shape
• Tablemodel, low profile (big size).

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 13.5 x 9.75 x 8.875 inch / 343 x 248 x 225 mm

• Notes
• color ivory.

• Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
• 17 lb (17 lb 0 oz) / 7.718 kg

• Source of data
• Collector's Guide to Antique Radios (6th edition)

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 11 = ca. 1940 and before

• Mentioned in
• Machine Age to Jet Age III

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• RCA Victor Service Notes "Red Book" Series

• Author
• Model page created by Konrad Birkner † 12.08.2014. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 5118 models, 3224 with images and 4145 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY)