• Country
• Great Britain (UK)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• GEC, General Electric Co Ltd., GENALEX; London

• Year
• 1935

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 199962

• • Brand: Gecophone

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

• Number of Tubes
• 6

• Valves / Tubes
• MX40 VMP4G MHD4 MPT4_Catkin Tuneon U12

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 125 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast (MW) and Long Wave.

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 190-250 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 10 inch = 25.4 cm

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Fidelity AC5 BC3650 - GEC, General Electric Co Ltd.,

• Shape
• Tablemodel, with any shape - general.

• Notes

• 40-100 cps AC mains.

  BC635 is an optional Aerial anti-interference unit (wave trap?) advertised in large print on rear panel (install location). The BC3650 is smaller print. Some have an alternate glass bulb instead of Catkin output possibly MPT4 7 pin (Mullard PEN4VA)

  Uses GEC Tuneon for tuning indicator, made obsolete same year by "magic eyes".

  See also very similar version Fidelity AC5 BC3650L for lower voltage AC, L means lower voltage.

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Trader Service Sheet (suppl. of Wireless & El. Trader, etc.) (54)

• Author
• Model page created by Howard Craven. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 443 models, 287 with images and 237 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from GEC, General Electric Co Ltd., GENALEX; London