• Country
• Japan

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Panasonic, Matsushita, National ナショナル (also tubes); Osaka

• Year
• 1979–1981

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 156207

• Number of Transistors
• Semiconductors present.

• Semiconductors

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast, 2 Short Wave plus FM or UHF.

• Details
• Cassette-Recorder or -Player

• Power type and voltage
• Line plus power jack, mostly with battery or storage battery / 50 Hz, 240 / D: 8 x 1.5 / DC: 13.2 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• 4 Loudspeakers

• Material
• Plastics (no bakelite or catalin)

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 4-Band Stereo Radio Cassette Recorder RX-5500FA - Panasonic, Matsushita,

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

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 475 x 295 x 120 mm / 18.7 x 11.6 x 4.7 inch

• Notes
• National Panasonic RX-5500FA;
  Ghettoblaster-Boombox,
  Dolby NR, Super Permalloy Heads, tape counter, LED VU/batt./tuning meter, CrO² tape bias/eq selector, fine tuning, 2 x man. rec. level control or autom., 2 x 150 mm woofers, 2x tweeters, built in microphones, inputs for aerial, line-in, phono & microphone, ext. DC in, ext. speaker, headphone & microphone jacks, 23 W mains power consumption, made in Japan for Australian/New Zealand market.

• Price in first year of sale
• 399.95 AUS $

• Mentioned in
• Mingay's Price Service (Aug 1979 to Aug 1981.)

• Author
• Model page created by a member from A. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 3049 models, 2826 with images and 632 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Panasonic, Matsushita, National ナショナル (also tubes); Osaka