- Country
- United States of America (USA)
- Manufacturer / Brand
- RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY)
- Year
- 1937
- Category
- Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
- Radiomuseum.org ID
- 53773
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- alternative name: RCA Manufacturing || Victor Talking Machine
Scanned from the Radio Retailing May 1937.
RECONSTRUCTED LABEL
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- Number of Tubes
- 5
- Main principle
- Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 460 kHz
- Wave bands
- Broadcast plus 2 Short Wave bands.
- Power type and voltage
- Storage and/or dry batteries / 2 & 135 & 7.5 Volt
- Loudspeaker
- Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 8 inch = 20.3 cm
- Power out
- 1.2 W (unknown quality)
- Material
- Wooden case
- from Radiomuseum.org
- Model: 85BT - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New
- Shape
- Tablemodel, high profile (upright - NOT Cathedral nor decorative).
- Dimensions (WHD)
- 13.375 x 20.25 x 9.125 inch / 340 x 514 x 232 mm
- Notes
- Pak-O-Powr $10.--
- Price in first year of sale
- 42.95 $
- External source of data
- Ernst Erb
- Source of data
- The Radio Collector's Directory and Price Guide 1921 - 1965
- Circuit diagram reference
- Rider's Perpetual, Volume 8 = 1937 and before
- Mentioned in
- Collector's Guide to Antique Radios (6th edition)
- Literature/Schematics (1)
- Machine Age to Jet Age II
- Literature/Schematics (2)
- RCA Victor Service Notes for 1937 (RCA Redbook)
- Literature/Schematics (3)
- Radio Retailing (Radio & Television R.) (May 1937.)
- Literature/Schematics (4)
- Cathedral & Tombstone Radios (page 215.)
- Other Models
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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)