AVR-5-A Airport Receiver

RCA (RCA Victor Co. Inc.); New York (NY)

  • Year
  • 1934 ?
  • Category
  • Commercial Receiver (may include amateur bands)
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 282941
    • alternative name: RCA Manufacturing || Victor Talking Machine

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 9
  • Main principle
  • Superhet with RF-stage
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast, Long Wave and more than two Short Wave bands.
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 110-125 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: AVR-5-A Airport Receiver - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, high profile (upright - NOT Cathedral nor decorative).
  • Dimensions (WHD)
  • 13.5 x 22 x 0 inch / 343 x 559 x 0 mm
  • Notes
  • The AVR-5-A is a 5-band radio sold commercially as an airport receiver.  The coverage of the five bands is as follows.

    X: 150-410 kHz

    A: 530 - 1500 kHz

    B: 1500 - 4000 kHz

    C: 3.6 - 10 MHz

    D: 7.6 - 18 MHz

    This receiver has eight controls, which include: Band switch, Tuning, Volume, AVC on off, Sensitivity, Tone/Power on off, Phones-Speaker switch, and CW Osc on off (beat frequency oscillator).

  • Author
  • Model page created by Rodney Boleyn. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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