• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Bendix Radio Division; Baltimore, MD

• Year
• 1947 ?

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 116989

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• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 12BE6 12BA6 12AT6 50B5 35W4

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 455 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• AC/DC-set / 105-125 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 4 inch = 10.2 cm

• Material
• Catalin (a brand name for a thermosetting polymer popular in the 1930s and 1940s - a phenol formaldehyde resin - like Bakelite, but a two-stage process with a lot of work afterwards).

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: R526MC - Bendix Radio Division;

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

• Notes
• Catalin: black front, green body.

• Source of data
• Collector's Guide to Antique Radios (6th edition)

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 17 = 1948 and before

• Mentioned in
• Table Top Radios Vol. 1 Stein 98 (page 45.)

• Author
• Model page created by Konrad Birkner † 12.08.2014. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 445 models, 360 with images and 221 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Bendix Radio Division; Baltimore, MD