• Country
• United States of America (USA)

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

• Year
• 1940/1941

• Category
• Car Radio, perhaps also + sound player/recorder

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 34179

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

• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 6SA7 6SK7 6SQ7 6K6G 6X5G

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

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• Storage Battery for all (e.g. for car radios and amateur radios) / 6 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 5 inch = 12.7 cm

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 579 Ch= Series A - Belmont Radio Corp. B.R.C.;

• Shape
• Chassis only or for «building in»

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 6 x 6.5 x 11.5 inch / 152 x 165 x 292 mm

• Notes

• Vibrator for +B. With Ivory knobs and push buttons. Broadcast 530 to 1550 kc.

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 14 = 1944 = before 1943

• Literature/Schematics (3)
• Belmont Folder for 1941.

• 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.