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.

 Pacemaker Pacemaker
Desktop VHF Transmitter
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RX
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TX
AM   CW   SSB  
80-10 m
 Viking 500 Viking 500
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
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RX
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TX
AM   CW   SSB  
80-10 m
 Viking Valiant Viking Valiant
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
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RX
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TX
AM   CW   SSB  
160-10 m
 S-102 S-102
Desktop VHF Receiver
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RX
AM  
143-149 MHz
TX
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 S-103 S-103
Desktop HF Receiver
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RX
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0.535-1.62 / 5.8-18.3 MHz
TX
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 S-106 S-106
Desktop 6m Receiver
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RX
AM  
50-54 MHz
TX
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 HQ-100AC HQ-100AC
Desktop Shortwave receiver
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RX
AM   CW   SSB  
0.54-30 MHz
TX
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 HQ-100C HQ-100C
Desktop Shortwave receiver
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RX
AM   CW   SSB  
0.54-30 MHz
TX
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 HQ-150 HQ-150
Desktop Shortwave receiver
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RX
AM   CW   SSB  
0.54-31 MHz
TX
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 DX-100B DX-100B
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
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RX
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TX
AM   CW  
10-160 m
 MC-55 MC-55
80-10 m Amateur Converter
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RX
All mode  
80-10 m
TX
All mode  
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 ESM-300 ESM-300
Desktop VHF Receiver
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RX
AM   FM   CW  
85-300 MHz in 5 bands
TX
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 FFR FFR
Heavy-duty receiver
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RX
AM   CW   SSB  
50 kHz - 32 MHz using plug-in tuners
TX
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 51J-4 51J-4
Desktop Shortwave receiver
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RX
AM   CW  
0.54-30.5 MHz
TX
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 KWM-1 KWM-1
Desktop Shortwave Transceiver
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RX
CW   SSB  
10-20 m
TX
CW   SSB  
10-20 m
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