- Country
- United States of America (USA)
- Manufacturer / Brand
- Fairbanks, Morse & Co.; Chicago (IL)
- Year
- 1935/1936
- Category
- Car Radio, perhaps also + sound player/recorder
- Radiomuseum.org ID
- 39920
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- alternative name: FMC
- Brand: Welco
Click on the schematic thumbnail to request the schematic as a free document.
- Number of Tubes
- 7
- Main principle
- Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 177.5 kHz
- Wave bands
- Broadcast only (MW).
- Power type and voltage
- Storage Battery for all (e.g. for car radios and amateur radios) / 6 Volt
- Loudspeaker
- Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 8 inch = 20.3 cm
- Power out
- 6 W (unknown quality)
- Material
- Metal case
- from Radiomuseum.org
- Model: 74 - Fairbanks, Morse & Co.;
- Shape
- Miscellaneous shapes - described under notes.
- Notes
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The Fairbanks Morse 74 is a battery operated, 7 tube BC band car radio. Has vibrator for generating +B. Has separate unit that holds the speaker.
- Price in first year of sale
- 64.50 USD
- External source of data
- Ernst Erb
- Circuit diagram reference
- Rider's Perpetual, Volume 6 = 1935 and before
- Mentioned in
- Radio Retailing (Radio & Television R.) (April 35, page 3)
- Literature/Schematics (1)
- Gernsback Official Radio Service Manual (Volume 6 = 1936 , Pages 376, 377)
- Literature/Schematics (2)
- Rider's Perpetual, Volume 6 = 1935 and before (Riders (Fairbanks Morse) 6-5)
- Literature/Schematics (3)
- Rider's Perpetual, Volume 7 = 1936 and before (Riders (Fairbanks Morse) 7-10, 17)
- Literature/Schematics (4)
- Radio Today (and Television) (March 1937, Page 49 Lists just IF)
- Other Models
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Here you find 147 models, 87 with images and 117 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
All listed radios etc. from Fairbanks, Morse & Co.; Chicago (IL)