252 Temple

• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Fada Radio & Electric Co.; Long Island (NY)

• Year
• 1940 ?

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 39481

• • alternative name: Andrea-Radio || Nater, Henri, Atlanta-Radio; Zürich

• Picture
• Schematics

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• Number of Tubes
• 6

• Valves / Tubes
• 6SS7GT 12SA7GT 6SS7GT 12SQ7GT 50L6GT 35Z5GT

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 456 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)

• Tuned circuits
• 5 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• AC/DC-set / 115 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: 252 [Temple] - Fada Radio & Electric Co.;

• Shape
• Tablemodel, with any shape - general.

• Notes
• BC (545 - 1720 kHz) band with built-in loop antenna.

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

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

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 13 = 1942 and before

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

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Collector's Guide to Antique Radios (6th edition)

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• Table Top Radios Vol. 1 Stein 98 (page 79.)

• Other Models

• Here you find 760 models, 450 with images and 531 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Fada Radio & Electric Co.; Long Island (NY)