- Country
- United States of America (USA)
- Manufacturer / Brand
- RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY)
- Year
- 1938
- Category
- Car Radio, perhaps also + sound player/recorder
- Radiomuseum.org ID
- 53835
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- alternative name: RCA Manufacturing || Victor Talking Machine
Click on the schematic thumbnail to request the schematic as a free document.
- Number of Tubes
- 5
- Main principle
- Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 460 kHz
- Wave bands
- Broadcast only (MW).
- Power type and voltage
- Storage Battery for all (e.g. for car radios and amateur radios) / 6 Volt
- Loudspeaker
- Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 5 inch = 12.7 cm
- Power out
- 1.75 W (unknown quality)
- Material
- Metal case
- from Radiomuseum.org
- Model: 8M - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New
- Shape
- Chassis only or for «building in»
- Dimensions (WHD)
- 6 x 5.7 x 10.7 inch / 152 x 145 x 272 mm
- Notes
- Vibrator for +B. Tuning drive ratio: 9 to 1.
- External source of data
- Ernst Erb
- Circuit diagram reference
- Rider's Perpetual, Volume 9 = 1938 and before
- Literature/Schematics (1)
- RCA Victor Service Notes for 1938
- Other Models
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Here you find 5133 models, 3236 with images and 4169 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)