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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	Collins KWM-1 Desktop Shortwave Transceiver -	RX CW SSB 10-20 m TX CW SSB 10-20 m
	Drake 1-A Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW SSB 80-10 m TX - -
	Eddystone 730/4 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.48-30 MHz in 5 bands TX - -
	Eddystone 870 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM 0.15-18 MHz TX - -
	Hallicrafters HT-32 Desktop Shortwave Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM CW SSB 10-80 m
	Hallicrafters S-38E Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-32 MHz in four bands TX - -
	Hallicrafters SX-104 Desktop VHF Receiver -	RX AM 30-50 MHz TX - -
	Hallicrafters SX-105 Desktop VHF Receiver -	RX AM 152-174 MHz TX - -
	Hammarlund HQ-110C Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW SSB 160-6 m TX - -
	National Company NC-66 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.15-23 MHz TX - -
	National Company NC-109 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW SSB 0.54-40 MHz TX - -
	National Company NC-188 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-40 MHz TX - -
	Racal RA-17L Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.5-30 MHz TX - -
	Central Electronics 100V Desktop Shortwave Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM CW SSB DSB FSK RTTY 80-10 m / 160 m optional
	E.F. Johnson Desk Kilowatt Desktop Shortwave Linear Amplifier -	RX - TX AM CW SSB 3.5-30 MHz

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