Ham Radio Equipment from the 1950s

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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	Eddystone 880/2 HF Receiver -	RX AM CW SSB 0.5-30 MHz TX - -
	Hallicrafters FPM-200 HF Transceiver -	RX AM CW SSB HF TX AM CW SSB HF
	Hallicrafters S-107 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-54 MHz TX - -
	Hallicrafters S-108 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-34 MHz in 4 bands TX - -
	Hallicrafters S-119 Sky Buddy II Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.535-1.64 / 2-5.5 / 6-16.4 MHz TX - -
	Hallicrafters SX-101 Mk IIIA Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 10-80 m with 2 m / 6 m converter options TX - -
	Hallicrafters SX-101A Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW SSB 10-80 m / 30-34 MHz TX - -
	Hammarlund HQ-145 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW SSB 0.54-30 MHz TX - -
	Hammarlund HQ-180A Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW SSB 0.54-30 MHz TX - -
	Hammarlund HQ-180C Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW SSB 0.54-30 MHz TX - -
	Heathkit MR-1 'Comanche' Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW SSB 10-80 m TX - -
	Heathkit TX-1 'Apache' Desktop Shortwave Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM CW SSB 10-80 m
	Kenwood 9R-4J Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.55-30 MHz in four bands TX - -
	Lafayette HE-10 (KT-200) Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-30 MHz in 4 bands TX - -
	National Company NC-60 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-31 MHz TX - -

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