"BDK" wrote in message
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WOW! My dad sold Juliette and Lloyd's, and Windsor, along with the
horrible Alaron (not listed), and another awful one that started with
an
A. I had many of the radios listed at one time or another. I used to
get
to fix the dead ones sometimes, and usually took a couple of the dead
ones and made one good one and kept it.

Lloyds seemed to be the best, the CB stuff with their name on it was
really pretty decent. I had several walkie talkies that were identical
to ones sold at Allied and Lafayette. I had one that had a three
channels, a solid aluminum case, and had selectable 100mw or 300mw Tx
power. I had that thing for about 10 years, it died of old age, all
the
switches were totally worn out.

Thanks for posting this.

BDK

There's a couple of Alarons here, plus plenty of others:

http://www.transistor.org/collection/collection.html

Frank Dresser

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"BDK" wrote in message
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WOW! My dad sold Juliette and Lloyd's, and Windsor, along with the
horrible Alaron (not listed), and another awful one that started with
an
A. I had many of the radios listed at one time or another. I used to
get
to fix the dead ones sometimes, and usually took a couple of the dead
ones and made one good one and kept it.

Lloyds seemed to be the best, the CB stuff with their name on it was
really pretty decent. I had several walkie talkies that were identical
to ones sold at Allied and Lafayette. I had one that had a three
channels, a solid aluminum case, and had selectable 100mw or 300mw Tx
power. I had that thing for about 10 years, it died of old age, all
the
switches were totally worn out.

Thanks for posting this.

BDK

There's a couple of Alarons here, plus plenty of others:

http://www.transistor.org/collection/collection.html

Frank Dresser




Arvin!! I knew it started with an A!!! I had an Arvin cassette recorder,
a total POS!!

I got a whole 2 grocery bags of Regency TR-5C's some with the exact same
case, some with an odd shiny plastic one. They almost all worked, after
a little playing with them. Bad solder joints on the volume control were
the most common The earphone jacks on all those old radios were junk.. I
sold them all for 2 bucks each at school.

The Crown TR-690 was another one my dad sold. I had one good one that I
stupidly left the battery in and it was ruined about 10 years ago.

I had a few of the Regency Xr2a, with the attached earphone. A nice
"listen to the radio during school" radio. I also had an amazingly tiny
for the time "pen" radio that was taken from me when I started laughing
at something they said on some show while I was sitting in Language Arts
class. I don't know what happened to it. It was blue and red and had a
little knob where the ball point button was at the top. Volume was a 3
click slide switch. Really weak, not quite as weak, and just weak. A AAA
battery ran it for about two weeks. I got it at some radio shop in NY. I
haven't ever seen anything remotely like it, ever.

I had about 50-60 of some Regency model not in her list. They were
mostly black and gold, and red and silver. Seemed to be basically well
made, but whoever was soldering the 9V battery clip leads to the clip
itself should have been canned. Most of them fired up instantly with a
new clip. Sold them at my school and a nearby girls HS for 2.00.

Thanks Frank!! LOL, I see a whole bunch I had, fixed, or...ummm..tested
pyro technics on.

BDK