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January 29th 18, 10:12 PM
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UNELCO 1914 info wanted
On Tuesday, August 25, 1998 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Rob wrote:
I am looking for any information anyone may have on the Unelco Electronics model 1914 AM/SW receiver and its manufacturer, Unelco Electronics of Baltimore, MD. A web search of "Unelco" brought only links to the obviously-unrelated Spanish electric utility :-) The first one I saw was the one my brother brought for $ 10 circa 1972 on "clearance" from a Sears store (I don't think it was ever regular Sears merchandise). It was the first shortwave radio in my family, I bought one at a hamfest circa 1988 for $ 5, and I have seen it in an old TV show somewhere (where it was miscast as a dispatcher's two way radio ! :-) The radio is (to put it kindly) a very inexpensive model with a thin gray plastic body and a circuit similar to what one would expect from a transistor AM (MW) radio of its era (circa 1970). It is nameless on its front panel (marked model 1914......Unelco.........Japan) on the back), has a tiny bottom-mounted speaker, and runs on 3 "D" batteries. The strange thing about it is its use of interchangible coils to switch from band to band (which was common only in much older radios). The radio seems to have been usually sold with band "5" coils (31m thru 16m continuous), though I also have a set of "1"s (MW), and others up to "6" allowed continuous coverage from .54 to 31.5 MHz. Things I want to know: How common/rare is this radio? What market was it intended for ? (For it is so different from the usual radios being sold in USA at the time, I've always wondered if was someone's plan to supply large numbers cheap of SW radios to developing countries, which failed, resulting in a stateside sell-off.) What became of its maker, Unelco Electronics, of Baltimore, MD, of which I've never seen any other reference to. Does it even have AGC? (Mine blocks out on strong signals, has no working AGC, though mine may simply be "broken" in this regard, I don't remember what the other one we had in '72 did.) Are there any other Unelco users out there? (apoligies for being a little "OT" asking about a ca. 1970 radio on an antiques group, but I know no alternate group for this) Rob "Everthing I have is Y1.96K compliant" |
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