Marine Receiver – Allocchio Bacchini AC20

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Dear Sparks,

in Italy there have been some industries produced marine radio gears during the “Radio Golden Age”, one of them was a big factory located in North Italy with name RADIALBA or well known as ALLOCCHIO BACCHINI very famous for the production of domestic radios and first TV sets. This time it is proposed the Marine Receiver model AC 20, these radios have been used on board for more than 20 years from their date of built, very nice audio quality also if the receiver suffered of a certain drift never solved definetively because of its own project: Rotating Drum with tuned tanks, anyway the AC 20 has been very popular among Italian Radio Officers. Unfortunately on the web there are not videos about this receiver. Below the characteristics:

AC20 – Allocchio Bacchini

Paese: Italia

Producer:   Allocchio Bacchini (Radialba); Milano

Anno:  1956

Categoria: Professional receiver

Valvole: 13: 6CB6 6CB6 6BE6 6C4 6BE6 6BA6 6BA6 6BA6 6AL5 6BA6 12AU7 6AQ5 0A2

Principle:  supereterodyne double / triple conversion; ZF/IF 950/62 kHz; 2 Stage AF

Tuned tanks:  9 Circuits

Power supply:  AC voltage 110 or 220 Volts

Speaker: output for external speakers or headphones

Audio power:  2 W (excellent quality)

Model: AC20 – Allocchio Bacchini Radialba

Materials: metal cabinet

Dimension (LxHxD):   490 x 300 x 405 mm / 19.3 x 11.8 x 15.9 inch

Frequency coverage:  75 kHz – 31 MHz

Weight:   25 kg / 55 lb 1.1 oz (55.066 lb)

73’s

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