• Year
  • 1937
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 53767
    • alternative name: RCA Manufacturing || Victor Talking Machine

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 16
  • Main principle
  • Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 460 kHz
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast plus more than 2 Short Wave bands.
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 105-125 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 12 inch = 30.5 cm
  • Power out
  • 25 W (unknown quality)
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: 816K - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New
  • Shape
  • Console with Push Buttons.
  • Dimensions (WHD)
  • 30 x 43 x 18 inch / 762 x 1092 x 457 mm
  • Notes
  • BC and 6xSW: 530-1,720 kc; 2,400-7,100 kc; 7,100-21,750 kc; Spread bands 49 m, 31 m, 25 m, 19 m. AFC.
    There is also the similar canadian model 816K.
  • Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
  • 68 kg / 149 lb 12.5 oz (149.78 lb)
  • External source of data
  • Ernst Erb
  • Circuit diagram reference
  • Rider's Perpetual, Volume 9 = 1938 and before
  • Literature/Schematics (2)
  • RCA Victor Service Notes for 1937 (RCA Redbook)

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