Posted 5 years ago
Wayne1977
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RCA Manufacturing || Victor Talking MachineYear: 1934Category: Car Radio, perhaps also + sound player/recorderValves / Tubes5: 78 6A7 6B7 41 1-VMain principleSuperhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 175 kHzTuned circuits5 AM circuit(s)Wave bandsBroadcast only (MW).DetailsPower type and voltageLine / Storage batteries (perhaps also batteries) / 105-125 / 6 VoltLoudspeakerElectro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)Power out3.6 W (unknown quality)from Model: M116 - RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; NewShapePortable set 8 inch (usable also without mains)NotesAC 40 watts, DC battery 5.7 amp. at 6.3 volts. This receiver uses a vibrator inverter-rectifier for supplying all plate and grid voltages when operated from battery source.
Despite your excellent reporting of all its various 'specs' Wayne, I remain at a complete loss as to what this thing actually *is/was*...is its "dial face" actually a radio tuning gauge? It just doesn't quite look like it is calibrated to be that, to me...??
Sa wha ?
Glad that's cleared up ! Sa wha ?
<LOLOL> at you guys -- and thanks again keramikos for all your research and reporting about this weird old radio! (I guess...?) :-) :-) :-)
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Thanks Keramikos for putting that into my mental realm. 28 lbs. portable ? Well, I guess a bag of Portland cement is considered portable too. LOL !