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Old December 4th 05, 10:56 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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I'm wondering if any of you older guys can ID an old model transistor radio
I am trying to hunt down.

In the late 60's I remember my older brother had an AM radio roughly about
6'X4' with a chromed speaker grill on the left side and a left pointing
horizontal chevron shaped tuning dial window on the right side. There were
thumb wheels on the right side of the radio for volume below and tuning
above. This radio came with a standard thick brown leather case that had
perforations for the speaker, and a chevron cutout to match the tuning dial
window. Four batteries were housed in a plastic holder that plugged into a
wire lead similar to a 9 volt battery connector in the back of the radio. I
seem to recall Kmart selling them up until the late 60's.

Can anyone remember this model and maybe a link to a picture?


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Old December 4th 05, 11:20 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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homepc wrote:
I'm wondering if any of you older guys can ID an old model transistor radio
I am trying to hunt down.

In the late 60's I remember my older brother had an AM radio roughly about
6'X4' with a chromed speaker grill on the left side and a left pointing
horizontal chevron shaped tuning dial window on the right side. There were
thumb wheels on the right side of the radio for volume below and tuning
above. This radio came with a standard thick brown leather case that had
perforations for the speaker, and a chevron cutout to match the tuning dial
window. Four batteries were housed in a plastic holder that plugged into a
wire lead similar to a 9 volt battery connector in the back of the radio. I
seem to recall Kmart selling them up until the late 60's.

Can anyone remember this model and maybe a link to a picture?




That sounds like a Trancel (Toshiba) I had in the early to mid 60's.
I may still have it in a storage. I'll take a look for it. If it's still
around, I'll put up a link to some pictures so you can verify it's the
radio of which you speak.


p
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Old December 4th 05, 11:32 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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I'm wondering if any of you older guys can ID an old model transistor
radio
I am trying to hunt down.

one of us older guys? take a look at Sarah's web site. she has
her collection on line. over 1500, tx radios. if you can't find
a pic there, you are not going to find it.

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

hope that works...

toomanyradios.
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Too Many Radios wrote:

I'm wondering if any of you older guys can ID an old model transistor
radio
I am trying to hunt down.

one of us older guys? take a look at Sarah's web site. she has
her collection on line. over 1500, tx radios. if you can't find
a pic there, you are not going to find it.

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

hope that works...


I was just over there myself... that's a whole days project looking at all the
pics.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


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Old December 5th 05, 12:45 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Thanks for the link, I found it after seeing one almost like it!

http://tinyurl.com/7bjks



"Too Many Radios" wrote in message
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I'm wondering if any of you older guys can ID an old model transistor
radio
I am trying to hunt down.

one of us older guys? take a look at Sarah's web site. she has
her collection on line. over 1500, tx radios. if you can't find
a pic there, you are not going to find it.

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

hope that works...

toomanyradios.





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Old December 5th 05, 12:47 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default Vintage AM radio identification

homepc wrote:
I'm wondering if any of you older guys can ID an old model transistor radio
I am trying to hunt down.

In the late 60's I remember my older brother had an AM radio roughly about
6'X4' with a chromed speaker grill on the left side and a left pointing
horizontal chevron shaped tuning dial window on the right side. There were
thumb wheels on the right side of the radio for volume below and tuning
above. This radio came with a standard thick brown leather case that had
perforations for the speaker, and a chevron cutout to match the tuning dial
window. Four batteries were housed in a plastic holder that plugged into a
wire lead similar to a 9 volt battery connector in the back of the radio. I
seem to recall Kmart selling them up until the late 60's.

Can anyone remember this model and maybe a link to a picture?



You just described dozens of models of transistor sets.
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Old December 5th 05, 11:05 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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dxAce wrote:

Too Many Radios wrote:


I'm wondering if any of you older guys can ID an old model transistor
radio
I am trying to hunt down.

one of us older guys? take a look at Sarah's web site. she has
her collection on line. over 1500, tx radios. if you can't find
a pic there, you are not going to find it.

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

hope that works...



I was just over there myself... that's a whole days project looking at all the
pics.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


That was FUN !

yodar
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