• Country
• Canada

• Manufacturer / Brand
• RCA Victor (International), Montreal

• Year
• 1956

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 279207

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• Number of Tubes
• 4

• Valves / Tubes
• 1L6 1U4 1U5 3V4

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 455 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)

• Tuned circuits
• 6 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast plus 2 Short Wave bands.

• Power type and voltage
• Dry Batteries / 1.5 & 90 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 5 inch = 12.7 cm

• Material
• Plastics (no bakelite or catalin)

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 5QB43 - RCA Victor International,

• Shape
• Tablemodel without push buttons, Mantel/Midget/Compact up to 14

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 14 x 9 x 6.5 inch / 356 x 229 x 165 mm

• Notes

• RCA 5QB43 is a 4-Tube Battery Operated BC/SW Band Receiver.

  Tuning range:

  Standard broadcast 515 - 1620 kHz
  B-Band 2.2 - 7.1 MHz
  C-Band 6.9 - 22 MHz

  Battery: RCA VS022

• Price in first year of sale
• 57.50 $

• Source of data
• -- Original prospect or advert

• Mentioned in
• Eaton's 1956 Christmas catalog.

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• -- Original-techn. papers.

• Author
• Model page created by Bernhard Nagel. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 667 models, 437 with images and 606 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from RCA Victor (International), Montreal