Pockette 1-TP-2E

• Country
• United States of America (USA)

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

• Year
• 1960

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 180834

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

• Picture
• Schematics

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• Number of Transistors
• Semiconductors present.

• Semiconductors

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• Dry Batteries / 4 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 5 cm = 2 inch

• Material
• Plastics (no bakelite or catalin)

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Pockette 1-TP-2E - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New

• Shape
• Very small Portable or Pocket-Set (Handheld) < 8 inch.

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 2.625 x 4 x 1.125 inch / 67 x 102 x 29 mm

• Notes

• RCA Victor 1-TP-2E Transistor Radio, High Impac cabinet white color with gold color metal speaker grill, earphone jack. Made in USA with full size leather case. Uses a 4 volt mercury battery. The name "Pockette" was mentioned in an original RCA print ad from 1960: "The smallest BIG radio ever made!"

• Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
• 0.3 kg / 0 lb 10.6 oz (0.661 lb)

• Mentioned in
• Collector's Guide To TrR1 Bunis trans.94 (1996, page 216)

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Beitman Radio Diagrams, Vol. 21, 1961 (page 132)

• Author
• Model page created by Eckhard Wegner. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• 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)