1950s Motorola “Ranger 1000″ Transistor Portable Radio

This is the transistorized version of the famous super-sensitive “Ranger” radios.

It has a metal handwired chassis. Can’t remember how many transistors it has in it, but I think it’s around either eight or nine.

Was dead as a doorknob when I first got it. Once I replaced all the electrolytics, it sprung into life–and then some.

Almost as good as a GE Superadio.

The quality of this radio is superb.

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2 Responses to “1950s Motorola “Ranger 1000″ Transistor Portable Radio”

batterymaker on April 9th, 2010 at 2:42 pm

And expensive–I …
And expensive–I suspect this was their top-of-the-line transistor radio.
umajunkcollector on April 9th, 2010 at 2:42 pm

I betha having …
I betha having something like this back then was really something amazing!

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