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 700 Marine Shortwave receiver IMR54 -	RX AM CW 15 kHz - 31 MHz in 10 bands TX - -
	Geloso G-207 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.5-30 MHz TX - -
	Gonset 2-meter Desktop VHF Transceiver -	RX AM 144-148 MHz (VFO) TX AM 144-148 MHz (XTAL)
	Gonset Commander HF/VHF Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM CW 10-160 m/6 m
	Gonset Communicator II Desktop VHF Transceiver -	RX AM 144-148 MHz (VFO) TX AM 144-148 MHz (XTAL)
	Hallicrafters HT-20 Desktop Shortwave Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM CW 160-10 m (continuous)
	Hallicrafters S-77A HF Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-44 MHz TX - -
	Hallicrafters S-81 Desktop VHF Receiver -	RX FM 152-173 MHz TX - -
	Hallicrafters S-82 Desktop VHF Receiver -	RX FM 30-50 MHz TX - -
	Hallicrafters SX-73 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-54 MHz in six bands TX - -
	Hallicrafters TW-1000 Portable Shortwave Transceiver -	RX AM 180-400 / 540-1600 kHz / 1.8-8 MHz 31, 25, 19 and 16 m TX -
	Military AN/ARC-33 Military Transceiver -	RX AM 225-399.9 MHz TX AM 225-399.9 MHz
	National Company HRO-60 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM FM CW 0.05-54 MHz (0.48-35 MHz for early versions) TX - -
	RME 50 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM FM CW General coverage (0.55-33 MHz ?) TX - -
	Siemens 745 E303 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 1.5-30 MHz (230 – 530 kHz optional) TX - -

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