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Many were dedicated types with special functions, such as VHF receivers for police and fire channels built into a CB radio. The company's best selling products were often shortwave receivers, parts, and portable radios. In the 1960s, many Lafayette brand radios were rebranded Trio-Kenwood sets. A significant share of 1960s and 1970s vintage ...
The RCA model R7 Superette superheterodyne table radio. This is a list of notable radios, which encompasses specific models and brands of radio transmitters, receivers and transceivers, both actively manufactured and defunct, including receivers, two-way radios, citizens band radios, shortwave radios, ham radios, scanners, weather radios and airband and marine VHF radios.
This is a list of books that topped The New York Times best-seller list in 1960. Fiction. The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. [1]
Their first product was a vacuum tube radio released in 1955, [3] [4] and their first transistor radio was the KR-6TS-1 radio released in the spring of 1957 [5] [6] at the price of 14,000 yen. [7] Through the 1960s, Koyo had manufactured and sold millions of portable transistor radios, particularly, their best-selling model KTR-624 had been ...
In the 1960s, company best seller products became transistor radio receivers. One of the most famous was the Koliber model. In 1969, three-band receiver models were available (Dominika and Izabella), as previous radios could only receive two bands, low frequency and medium wave, and a year later the Laura 4-band
A replica of the 1950s radio was created and sold out in two limited runs. Public popularity led to the full reissue of the original design as the Revival in 1993 in original red colour, with various new colours and designs numbering sixteen by the year 2000. [7] [8] [9] The Revival has been Britain's best selling portable radio ever since.
A classic Emerson transistor radio, circa 1958. A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry.Previous portable radios used vacuum tubes, which were bulky, fragile, had a limited lifetime, consumed excessive power and required large heavy batteries.
The AN/PRC-77 entered service in 1968 during the Vietnam War as an upgrade to the earlier AN/PRC-25.It differs from its predecessor mainly in that the PRC-77's final power amplifier stage is made with a transistor, eliminating the only vacuum tube in the PRC-25, as well as the DC-DC voltage converter used to create the high plate voltage for the tube from the 15 V battery.