Ham Radio Equipment from 1950

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 32V-2 Desktop Shortwave Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM CW 10-80 m
	Collins 51J-2 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.5-30.5 MHz TX - -
	Collins KW-1 Desktop Shortwave Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM FM CW 10-160 m
	Collins R-381 Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW SSB 0.5-30.5 MHz TX - -
	Collins R-390/URR Desktop Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.5-32 MHz TX - -
	Delta 208 Desktop Receiver -	RX AM CW SSB TX - -
	Eddystone 720 Marine Shortwave receiver -	RX AM 130-3750 kHz in 3 bands TX - -
	Eddystone 740 Communications receiver -	RX AM CW 620-205 m / 1.4-3.8 / 3.7-10.6 / 10.5-30.6 MHz TX - -
	Eddystone 750 Communications receiver -	RX AM CW 480-165 kHz / 1.7-4.5 / 4.5-12 / 12-32 MHz TX - -
	Hallicrafters HT-4G HF Transmitter -	RX - - TX AM CW Any three amateur bands between 160-10 m (depending on coil set)
	Hallicrafters S-40B HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-43 MHz in four bands TX - -
	Hallicrafters S-72L Handheld Shortwave receiver -	RX AM CW 0.170-0.4 / 0.54-11.5 MHz in four bands TX - -
	Hallicrafters S-72R Portable Amateur Receiver -	RX AM CW 0.54-31 MHz in four bands TX - -
	Hallicrafters SR-75 Desktop Shortwave Transceiver -	RX AM CW 0.54.32 MHz TX CW 10, 11, 15, 20, 40 & 80 m
	National Company NC-125 Desktop HF/VHF Receiver -	RX AM FM CW 0.56-35 MHz in 4 bands TX - -

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