Ham Radio Equipment from the 1940s

The timeline selects and sorts rigs according to manufacturing dates. Find rigs of your favorite era, or your year of birth. Rigs with uncertain manufacturing dates (like "19xx") are excluded from these pages.

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	Hallicrafters S-52 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.55-43 MHz in four bands TX - -
	Harvey-Wells TBS-50A Desktop HF/VHF Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM CW 10-80m / 6m / 2m
	National Company HFS Desktop HF/VHF/UHF Receiver -	RX AM FM CW 27-250 MHz in 6 bands TX - -
	National Company NC-33 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.5-35 MHz TX - -
	Collins 51J-1 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.5-30.5 MHz in 30×1000 kHz bands TX - -
	E.F. Johnson Viking I Desktop Shortwave Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM CW 160-10 m
	Eddystone 710 Mobile Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 500 kHz - 30.6 MHz in 5 bands TX - -
	Hallicrafters S-38A Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-32 MHz in four bands TX - -
	Hallicrafters S-38B Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-32 MHz in four bands TX - -
	Hallicrafters S-72 Handheld Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-31 MHz in four bands TX - -
	Hallicrafters SX-62 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-110 MHz TX - -
	Hallicrafters SX-71 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM N-FM CW 0.538-35 / 46-56 MHz TX - -
	National Company HRO-50 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM FM CW 50-430 kHz / 0.48-35 MHz TX - -
	RCA SC-88 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.535-32 MHz (general coverage) TX - -
	Collins 32V-1 Desktop Shortwave Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM CW 10-80 m

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