• 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
• 54054

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

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• Number of Tubes
• 6

• Valves / Tubes
• 6K7 6A8 6K7 6Q7 6F6 6X5

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 455 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
• 2 W (unknown quality)

• Material
• Metal case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 9M2 Ch= RC-357A - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New

• Shape
• Chassis only or for «building in»

• Notes
• Vibrator for +B. Mechanical push button tuning.

• 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

• Here you find 5134 models, 3237 with images and 4171 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)