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Old July 16th 11, 06:12 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default It started as a Radio Shack "TRF" didn't it?

On Jul 15, 7:18*pm, "Brenda Ann"
wrote:
The first radio that fit all the specs to make it a "Superadio" was this
one:

http://www.transistor.org/feature/jutson/details.html

I have a Realistic TRF-10 from 1965, from before Radio Shack had been
acquired by Tandy and before it was associated with Allied Radio. The
catalog number was 12-614, and it was about the size of a Sony 7600.
As implied by the nomenclature, it has a turned RF stage ahead of the
converter. I remember using it to get daylight BCB reception of a
station about 400 miles away (granted, it ws 500kW and across salt
walter).