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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	National Company SW-54 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-30 MHz TX - -
	Collins 32V-3 Desktop Shortwave Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM CW 10-80 m
	Collins 75A-2 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM FM CW 10-160 m TX - -
	Collins R-389/URR Desktop ULF/VLF Receiver -	RX AM CW FSK 15-500 / 500-1500 kHz (2 ranges, 7 bands) TX - -
	Hallicrafters S-76 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.538-34 MHz (1.580-1.720 MHz gap) in 4 bands TX - -
	Hallicrafters S-80 Desktop HF Receiver -	RX FM 0.54-1.62 / 6-18 MHz TX - -
	Hammarlund SP-600 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-54 MHz in 6 bands (0.54-1.35 / 1.35-3.45 / 3.45-7.4 / 7.4-14.8 / 14.8-29.7 / 29.7-54 MHz) TX - -
	Military R209 Mobile Shortwave receiver -	RX AM FM CW 1-20 MHz in 5 bands TX - -
	National Company HRO-50T1 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM FM CW 50-430 kHz / 0.48-35 MHz TX - -
	Central Electronics 10-A Desktop Shortwave Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM CW SSB 160-10 m
	Collins 51J-3 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-30.5 MHz in 30 bands TX - -
	Collins 75A-3 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM FM CW 10-160 m TX - -
	E.F. Johnson Viking II Desktop Shortwave Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM CW 160-10 m
	E.F. Johnson Viking Mobile Desktop Shortwave Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM 80/20/10 m
	Eddystone 680X Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 480 kHz - 30 MHz in five bands TX - -

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