AVR-5-A Airport Receiver
RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY)
- Country
- United States of America (USA)
- Manufacturer / Brand
- RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY)
- Year
- 1934 ?
- Category
- Commercial Receiver (may include amateur bands)
- Radiomuseum.org ID
- 282941
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- alternative name: RCA Manufacturing || Victor Talking Machine
Photo courtesy of Mark Roth.
Photo courtesy of Mark Roth.
- Number of Tubes
- 9
- Main principle
- Superhet with RF-stage
- Wave bands
- Broadcast, Long Wave and more than two Short Wave bands.
- Power type and voltage
- Alternating Current supply (AC) / 110-125 Volt
- Loudspeaker
- Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)
- Material
- Wooden case
- from Radiomuseum.org
- Model: AVR-5-A Airport Receiver - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New
- Shape
- Tablemodel, high profile (upright - NOT Cathedral nor decorative).
- Dimensions (WHD)
- 13.5 x 22 x 0 inch / 343 x 559 x 0 mm
- Notes
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The AVR-5-A is a 5-band radio sold commercially as an airport receiver. The coverage of the five bands is as follows.
X: 150-410 kHz
A: 530 - 1500 kHz
B: 1500 - 4000 kHz
C: 3.6 - 10 MHz
D: 7.6 - 18 MHz
This receiver has eight controls, which include: Band switch, Tuning, Volume, AVC on off, Sensitivity, Tone/Power on off, Phones-Speaker switch, and CW Osc on off (beat frequency oscillator).
- Author
- Model page created by Rodney Boleyn. See "Data change" for further contributors.
- Other Models
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Here you find 5125 models, 3228 with images and 4161 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)