• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• DeWald Radio Mfg. Corp., Pierce Airo Inc.

• Year
• 1941

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 37530

• • Brand: Pierce Airo

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• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 12SA7 12SK7 12SQ7 50L6GT 35Z5GT

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 455 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)

• Tuned circuits
• 6 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

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

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

• 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: 562 "Jewel" - DeWald Radio Mfg. Corp.,

• Notes
• BC (540-1700kHz) band with built-in loop antenna.

• Price in first year of sale
• 19.95 $

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

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

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 12 = ca. 1941 and before

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

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Radio Retailing (Radio & Television R.) (March 1941.)

• Other Models

• Here you find 442 models, 195 with images and 344 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from DeWald Radio Mfg. Corp., Pierce Airo Inc.