• Country
• United States of America (USA)

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

• Year
• 1946/1947

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 82181

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

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

• Number of Tubes
• 6

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

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 456 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• AC/DC-set / 110 - 120 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: 700 Cloud - Fada Radio & Electric Co.;

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

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 10.5 x 6.5 x 5.5 inch / 267 x 165 x 140 mm

• Notes

• Colors: Mainly marblized Green or Dark Blue Green(Onyx)& White trim; Yellow & Red trim; Maroon & White trim; Yellow & Brown trim; Alabaster (?). When having original folders etc. we will manage to separate the different colors with the correct suffixes.

  Many sets have been tinkered with other color or knobs etc. Before uploading pictures, please control your set and look also for most similar FADA models 845 with wrong colors etc. The material of the models 845 is STYRENE plastic (Stein, Plastic Radios, page 95).

• Source of data
• -- Collector info (Sammler)

• Mentioned in
• Collector's Guide to Antique Radios (7th Edition) (Sideli: Classic Plastic Radios...)

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Photofact Folder, Howard W. SAMS (Date 1-48, Set 32, Folder 482-7)

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• Radio Retailing (Radio & Television R.) (June 1947 page 3.)

• Author
• Model page created by Juan Antonio Pardo-Alonso. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 762 models, 452 with images and 533 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)