• Country
• Great Britain (UK)

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

• Year
• 1948

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 79289

• • Brand: Gecophone

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• Number of Tubes
• 4

• Valves / Tubes
• X17 W17 ZD17 N17

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

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

• Power type and voltage
• Dry Batteries / 1.5 & 90 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 5 inch = 12.7 cm

• Material
• Bakelite case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: BC4941 - GEC, General Electric Co Ltd.,

• Shape
• Portable set > 8 inch (also usable without mains)

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 13.5 x 12.5 x 7.25 inch / 343 x 318 x 184 mm

• Notes

• A 2 band all-dry battery portable valve radio housed in a bakelite case. Released April 1948.

• Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
• 17 lb 0 oz (17 lb) / 7.718 kg

• Source of data
• Radio! Radio!

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• - - Manufacturers Literature (GEC Service Bulletin No. 109 BC4941)

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• Trader Service Sheet (suppl. of Wireless & El. Trader, etc.) (916 dated July 9 1949)

• Author
• Model page created by Konrad Birkner † 12.08.2014. 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