• Country
• United States of America (USA)

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

• Year
• 1939/1940

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 39769

• • 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
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 12SA7GT 12K7GT 12SQ7GT 50L6GT 35Z5GT

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 456 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)

• Tuned circuits
• 6 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: L-56 Catalin Group - Fada Radio & Electric Co.;

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

• Notes

• Loop antenna on back side panel.

  Available in ten eye-thrilling color combinations:

  • F56X   Onyx cabinet with Onyx grille
  • F56A   Alabaster cabinet with Alabaster grille
  • F56AG Alabaster cabinet with Green grille
  • F56AR Alabaster cabinet with Red grille
  • F56AT Alabaster cabinet with Tortoise grille
  • F56AU Alabaster cabinet with Blue grille
  • F56AX Alabaster cabinet with Onyx grille
  • F56MA Maroon cabinet with Alabaster grille
  • F56BA Blue Lapis Lazuli cabinet with Alabaster grille
  • F56GA Green Jade cabinet with Alabaster grille

  See also the Fada models 56 with the same chassis: model L-56W in Walnut bakelite, model L-56BV in Ebony bakelite cabinet with Ivory grille, model L-56T in Burl Walnut wood, model L-56V in Ivory plastic, model L-56 in different bakelite color series or model PL-56 portable.

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Source of data
• The Radio Collector's Directory and Price Guide 1921 - 1965

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 11 = ca. 1940 and before

• Mentioned in
• Collector's Guide to Antique Radios (6th edition)

• Literature/Schematics (3)
• Fada Folder AD 250-B for 1940.

• 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)