Ham Radio Equipment from the 1950s

The timeline selects and sorts rigs according to manufacturing dates. Find rigs of your favorite era, or your year of birth. Rigs with uncertain manufacturing dates (like "19xx") are excluded from these pages.

 RT-176 / PRC-10 RT-176 / PRC-10
Military Portable Transceiver
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RX
FM  
38-55 MHz
TX
FM  
38-55 MHz
 MB-5 MB-5
Mobile Shortwave receiver
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RX
AM   CW   SSB  
80-10 m
TX
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 MB-560 MB-560
Mobile Shortwave Transmitter
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RX
CW   SSB  
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TX
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80-10 m
 SRR-13A SRR-13A
Desktop Shortwave receiver
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RX
AM   CW  
2-32 MHz
TX
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 EK-07 EK-07
HF Receiver
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RX
AM   CW  
0.5-30.1 MHz
TX
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 745 E309b 745 E309b
Desktop Shortwave receiver
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RX
AM   CW  
255-525 KHz / 1.5-30.3 MHz
TX
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 ATS-2 ATS-2
Vertical antenna tuner
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RX
All mode  
TX
All mode  
 GSB-1 GSB-1
SSB Adapter
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RX
AM   SSB  
Determined by [[Rig:5606]]
TX
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Determined by [[Rig:5606]]
 PAL-500 PAL-500
Heavy-duty amplifier
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RX
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TX
All mode  
 SBE-2 SBE-2
Transmitter Exciter
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RX
USB   LSB  
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TX
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2-32 MHz
 SBE-3 SBE-3
Transmitter Exciter
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RX
USB   LSB  
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TX
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2-32 MHz
 XKF XKF
Frequency Shift Exciter XFK Receiver-Transmitter
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RX
CW  
TX
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1-6.9 MHz
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