• Country
• Great Britain (UK)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Vidor Ltd.; Erith (Kent)

• Year
• 1949

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 230968

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• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• CCH35 EF39 EBC33 CL33 CY31

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 456 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)

• Tuned circuits
• 6 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast plus more than 2 Short Wave bands.

• Power type and voltage
• AC/DC-set / 110 / 200-250 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil)

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: CN386 - Vidor Ltd.; Erith Kent

• Shape
• Tablemodel, with any shape - general.

• Notes

• An export version of CN385, but unusually for Vidor LW, is replaced by an extra SW3 band rather than just removing UK domestic station names from scale. Same cabinet.

  Wavebands

  • MW:  200 .. 550 m
  • SW1: 100 ... 32 m (approx.)
  • SW2: 32 ... 14 m (approx.)
  • SW3: 10 ... 12 m (approx.)

  Warning
  Chassis can be live.
  Two scale lamps (bulbs) are apparently in series with mains supply. The Aerial and Earth isolating capacitors need to be be suitably rated safety types.

• Mentioned in
• Radio And Television Servicing books (R&TVS) (1951 Edition under CN385 p.228)

• Author
• Model page created by Michael Watterson. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 146 models, 77 with images and 75 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Vidor Ltd.; Erith (Kent)