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  2. Mobile radio - Wikipedia

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    For US licensing purposes, mobiles may include hand-carried, (sometimes called portable), equipment. An obsolete term is radiophone. [a] [1] [2] [3] A sales person or radio repair shop would understand the word mobile to mean vehicle-mounted: a transmitter-receiver (transceiver) used for radio communications from a vehicle. Mobile radios are ...

  3. Koyo Electronics Corporation Limited - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Lafayette Radio Electronics - Wikipedia

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    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 Lafayette hi-fi gear was manufactured by a Japanese subcontractor named "Planet Research".

  5. Transistor radio - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of radios - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. AN/PRC-77 Portable Transceiver - Wikipedia

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    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.

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  9. Armstrong Audio - Wikipedia

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    Armstrong 426 combined amplifier and tuner from the mid-1960s. Initially created to manufacture portable radios, during World War II their factory was used to manufacture radios, public address systems, and various electronic parts. After the war, they began to produce television sets, as well as long range radios for ships, but eventually ...