• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY)

• Year
• 1938

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 53112

• • alternative name: RCA Manufacturing || Victor Talking Machine

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• Number of Tubes
• 12

• Valves / Tubes
• 6K7 6J7 6L7 6K7 6U5 6K7 6R7 6J5 6J5 6F6 6F6 5U4

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 455 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast, Long Wave and more than two Short Wave bands.

• Power type and voltage
• Powered by external power supply or a main unit.

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 12 inch = 30.5 cm

• Power out
• 10 W (unknown quality)

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 12Q4 Ch= RC-338 - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New

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

• Notes

• Eight bands. Three plug-in  AC power supplies available: PSU10A, PSU10B and PSU10C. Power supply PSU10E is for 117 or 234 Volt DC-line. 

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

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

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 11 = ca. 1940 and before

• Mentioned in
• Guide to Old Radios

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Machine Age to Jet Age III

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• Cathedral & Tombstone Radios (page 215.)

• Other Models

• Here you find 5132 models, 3235 with images and 4167 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY)