• Country
• United States of America (USA)

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

• Year
• 1925

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 54645

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

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• Number of Tubes
• 8

• Valves / Tubes
• UX199 UX199 UX199 UX199 UX199 UX199 UX199 UX120

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• Dry Batteries / 3 & 22.5 & 22.5 & 45 & 45 & -4.5 & -22.5 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• - This model requires external speaker(s).

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Radiola 28 AR-920 [Battery] - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New

• Shape
• Console, Highboy (legs > 50 %).

• Notes

• Highboy stand (console table) available.

  The set was still sold for $9.95 by a wholesale dealer in NY in 1933 (see advertisement).

  Radiola 28 chassis was also adapted for use in the RCA Radiola 28 AR-998 [Battery].

  The AC version Radiola 28 chassis was adapted for use in the RCA Radiola 28 AR-969 [AC].

• 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 1 = 1931/1934 (for 1919-1931)

• Mentioned in
• Collector's Guide to Antique Radios 4. Edition (National Geographic, January 1926)

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Radio Manufacturers of the 1920's, Vol. 3

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• Radio Broadcast, May 1926, p. 30

• Literature/Schematics (3)
• Radio Retailing (Radio & Television R.) (ad June 1927 page 79.)

• 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)