• Country
• United States of America (USA)

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

• Year
• 1936

• Category
• Car Radio, perhaps also + sound player/recorder

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 53548

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

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• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 6D6 6A8 6K7 6B7 42

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 260 kHz

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• Storage Battery for all (e.g. for car radios and amateur radios) / 6.3 Volt

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

• Power out
• 2.25 W (unknown quality)

• Material
• Metal case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 5M - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New

• Shape
• Chassis only or for «building in»

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 10 x 7 x 7.125 inch / 254 x 178 x 181 mm

• Notes

• vibrator for +B.

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• Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
• 23.5 lb (23 lb 8 oz) / 10.669 kg

• Price in first year of sale
• 40.00 $

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 7 = 1936 and before

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• RCA Victor Service Notes "Red Book" Series

• Other Models

• Here you find 5131 models, 3234 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)