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.

 1-A 1-A
Desktop Shortwave receiver
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RX
AM   CW   SSB  
80-10 m
TX
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 730/4 730/4
Desktop Shortwave receiver
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RX
AM   CW  
0.48-30 MHz in 5 bands
TX
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 870 870
Desktop Shortwave receiver
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RX
AM  
0.15-18 MHz
TX
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 HT-32 HT-32
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
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RX
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TX
AM   CW   SSB  
10-80 m
 S-38E S-38E
Desktop HF/VHF Receiver
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RX
AM   CW  
0.54-32 MHz in four bands
TX
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 SX-104 SX-104
Desktop VHF Receiver
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RX
AM  
30-50 MHz
TX
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 SX-105 SX-105
Desktop VHF Receiver
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RX
AM  
152-174 MHz
TX
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 HQ-110C HQ-110C
Desktop HF/VHF Receiver
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RX
AM   CW   SSB  
160-6 m
TX
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 NC-66 NC-66
Desktop Shortwave receiver
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RX
AM   CW  
0.15-23 MHz
TX
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 NC-109 NC-109
Desktop HF/VHF Receiver
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RX
AM   CW   SSB  
0.54-40 MHz
TX
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 NC-188 NC-188
Desktop HF/VHF Receiver
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RX
AM   CW  
0.54-40 MHz
TX
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 RA-17L RA-17L
Desktop Shortwave receiver
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RX
AM   CW  
0.5-30 MHz
TX
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 100V 100V
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
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RX
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TX
AM   CW   SSB   DSB   FSK   RTTY  
80-10 m / 160 m optional
 Desk Kilowatt Desk Kilowatt
Desktop Shortwave Linear Amplifier
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RX
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TX
AM   CW   SSB  
3.5-30 MHz
 Messenger I Messenger I
Desktop Transceiver
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RX
AM  
11 m (26.965-27.405 MHz)
TX
AM  
11 m (26.965-27.405 MHz)
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