• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Fairbanks, Morse & Co.; Chicago (IL)

• Year
• 1934

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 39911

• • alternative name: FMC
  • Brand: Welco

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• Number of Tubes
• 7

• Valves / Tubes
• 6D6 6D6 6A7 6D6 6B7 42 80

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 456 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast plus more than 2 Short Wave bands.

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 115 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 7014 Ch= 70 [Skyscraper] - Fairbanks, Morse & Co.;

• Shape
• Tablemodel, Tombstone = decorative upright, not cathedral but can have rounded edges.

• Notes

• Band coverage is as follows:

  1	550	1500	kHz	MW - Broadcast
  2	1500	4200	kHz	Shortwave 1
  3	4.3	12	MHz	Shortwave 2
  4	10	23	MHz	Shortwave 3

   

  (Stein "Cathedral & Tombstone Radios" lists two bands for this model.  The schematic and the dial both show four bands.)

• Price in first year of sale
• 69.00 $

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

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

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 5 = ca. 1934 and before

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

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Machine Age to Jet Age II (A Blast from the Past)

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• Cathedral & Tombstone Radios (page 111.)

• Other Models

• 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)