Motorola CP200 Portable Radio: VHF & UHF Overview

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1948 British Marconiphone P20B Personal Portable Radio

Here’s the other personal portable that Marconiphone brought out, the Model 20B.
This one plays AM and LW stations.
Bandswitch is a little flaky, could use a cleaning.
Got this in a trade with Bob Thompson. He has the website roberts-radios.co.uk, and it has reproduction battery covers available for collectors.
Uses a B114 combination battery pack.
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1955 Olympic Model 449 Personal Portable Radio

An anachronism.
This radio is designed on 1940s standards–using a lid for a loop antenna. All other radios of the same time were using ferrite rod antennas and were shaped like small lunchboxes.
I suspect this radio was based on some of Emerson’s designs, given the chassis layout.
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Hall & Oates – Portable Radio

Video we made for the HallandOates.com music video contest.
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Cavalcade of Homebrew Radios, Part II–1961 Transistor Portable Radio

Here’s another one.
Picked this up from eBay around 1998. The seller said it was a kit radio.
When I got the set, I was surprised to find it was a homebrew. This guy cut his own chassis and cabinet.
The layout is identical to an article in Radio-TV Experimenter entitled “Six Transistor Portable Superheterodyne,” [...]

Replacing Selenium Rectifiers in Tube Portable Radios

Replacing Selenium Rectifiers in Tube Portable Radios
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Tivoli Audio PAL AM/FM Portable Radio

We’ve all owned things that bring on a smile just from looking at, or holding, or listening to them. The Tivoli Audio® PAL®(Portable Audio Laboratory®) radio is, for many of our customers, one of those things.
Originally conceived as a portable version of the benchmark Tivoli Audio Model One™ table radio, the PAL radio has [...]

XTS 5000 Portable Radio Basics

Basic operation of our fire department portable radios
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Hall & Oates – Portable Radio

Take your pick of the modulation
like a kid in a candy store
It’s a hand-carry situation
made for lying on the beach
or dancin in the streets
You got your pertinent information
or you can tune in to hear the scores
There’s a power in a million stations
you can’t ignore
Radio
crank up the power
Radio
rock it for hours and hours
Radio
play it soft and [...]