• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Belmont Radio Corp. (B.R.C.); Chicago, Ill.

• Year
• 1937

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 34205

Click on the schematic thumbnail to request the schematic as a free document.

• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 6A8 6K7 6R7 25L6 25Z5 L49B

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 465 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• AC/DC-set / 119 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)

• Material
• Plastics (no bakelite or catalin)

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 602 ivory [antenna yellow, IF 465 kc] - Belmont Radio Corp. B.R.C.;

• Shape
• Tablemodel, with any shape - general.

• Notes

• The Belmont model 602 has an IF of 465 kHz, but with a suffix B or C it has 470 kHz, B having a yellow antenna and C a tan antenna. See schematic for that. All 3 versions were availaible in the colors black, brown and ivory. This results in the following 9 models:
  602 black, 602 brown, 602 ivory: 602B black, 602B brown, 602B ivory; 602C black, 602C brown and 602C ivory. The ivory models are in plascon, the others in bakelite.

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Source of data
• Collector's Guide to Antique Radios 4. Edition

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 8 = 1937 and before

• Mentioned in
• The Radio Collector's Directory and Price Guide 1921 - 1965

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Radio Retailing (Radio & Television R.) (June 1937.)

• Other Models

• Here you find 442 models, 206 with images and 383 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Belmont Radio Corp. (B.R.C.); Chicago, Ill.