• Year
  • 1950 ?
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 242505
    • alternative name: RCA Manufacturing || Victor Talking Machine

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 12
  • Main principle
  • Superhet with RF-stage
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast plus more than 2 Short Wave bands.
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 95; 115; 140; 190; 215; 240 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 10 inch = 25.4 cm
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: X372 M - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, low profile (big size).
  • Dimensions (WHD)
  • 25.625 x 14.75 x 13.625 inch / 651 x 375 x 346 mm
  • Notes
  • Power-supply plus audio-output stages on separate chassis. Turret type band tuner.

    Wave bands:

    • AM/MW: 540 - 1630 kHz
    • continuous SW: 7.5 - 21.9 MHz
    • band-spread SW: 10 ranges (3.22 - 8.4 MHz, 2.65 - 4.25 MHz, 4.55 - 5.2 MHz, 5.65 - 6.9 MHz, 6.85 - 7.8 MHz, 9.2 - 10.0 MHz, 11.5 - 12.2 MHz, 14.98 - 15.9 MHz, 17.45 - 18.25 MHz, and 20.6 - 22 MHz)

    The X372 M is an upgraded X372 has an added phonograph pre-amplifier for magnetic pickup. It employs a 6SC7 with the socket rubber-mounted.  (While the tube is drawn in pencil on the paper label, it appears to be factory installed).  For the added tube, there is a separate filament winding in the power transformer plus the necessary circuitry.

    Most probably an Export model made in Canada.

     

  • Mentioned in
  • The G.E. Handbook for World Listening with model X 371, Lund Johansen, 1952
  • Literature/Schematics (1)
  • Foreign Service Journal, Issue 34, USA 1954

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