• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• EICO (Electronic Instrument Co.Inc.) Brooklyn

• Year
• 1960–1968 ?

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 272126

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

• Number of Transistors
• 6

• Semiconductors
• 2N485 2N483 2N482 2N362 2N632 2N632 1N295

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

• Tuned circuits
• 5 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• Dry Batteries / 1 x 9 Volt

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

• Power out
• 0.25 W (undistorted)

• Material
• Leather / canvas / plastic - over other material

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: All Transistor RA-6 Kit - EICO Electronic Instrument Co.

• Shape
• Portable set > 8 inch (also usable without mains)

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 8.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 inch / 216 x 114 x 64 mm

• Notes

• This was a kit that also sold assembled for $49.95 US. It had a 4 x 6 inch oval speaker. It used a 9 volt Eveready battery type 246.

  It used 5 tuned circuits including the antenna, local oscillator/converter, and IF stages.

  Also appeared in the EICO catalogs for 1961, 1963 (page 16), and 1968 (page 7).

  Also appeared in "Transistor Radios, A Collector's Encyclpedia and Price Guide", 1994, by David and Robert Lane, page 40.

• Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
• 2.3 lb (2 lb 4.8 oz) / 1.044 kg

• Price in first year of sale
• 29.95 USD

• Mentioned in
• Photofact TSM Transistor Radio Series SAMS (TSM-24 June 1963 pages 49-53)

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Allied Radio Catalog (Knight) (1961, page 433)

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• Collector's Guide To TrR1 Bunis trans.94 (2nd ed. 1996, page 80)

• Author
• Model page created by David Barker. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 183 models, 180 with images and 130 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from EICO (Electronic Instrument Co.Inc.) Brooklyn