• Year
  • 1932
perfect model
  • Category
  • Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 54717
    • alternative name: RCA Manufacturing || Victor Talking Machine

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 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 8
  • Main principle
  • Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 175 kHz
  • Wave bands
  • Broadcast only (MW).
  • Details
  • Record Player (perh.Changer)
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 105-125 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)
  • Power out
  • 3 W (unknown quality)
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: RE80 - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New
  • Shape
  • Console, Highboy (legs > 50 %).
  • Notes
  • The RCA model RE80 has a stretcher base cabinet. Scratch filter. Information from Alan Douglas for this model: "According to the "Red Book", the RCA service manual 1931/32, this RCA model RE-80 was announced November 15, 1932 with a list price of $ 125. Date of sample shipment was November 16, 1932 and first stock shipment was November 19, 1932. This model was produced 2292 times."
  • Price in first year of sale
  • 125.00 $
  • External source of data
  • Ernst Erb
  • Circuit diagram reference
  • Rider's Perpetual, Volume 4 = ca. 1934 and before

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