[Boatanchors] First American Transistor Radio

[Howard L Ritter, Jr]

As a kid in Oxford, Ohio, in 1958 I was thrilled to acquire a 
"7-Transistor" battery-operated Motorola AM portable that thrilled me 
even more by picking up, at night, WFAA in Dallas and the legendary 
250KW XERF in Ciudad Acuna, Coahuila, Mexico, plus a lot of closer 
out-of-state stations. That was the start of my lifelong interest in 
DXing and, indeed, in radio as something other than just a source of 
music.

If this radio wasn't the first, and I suppose it wasn't, it must have 
been close.

--howard n7exn


On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 07:15 PM, Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:

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> 	What American company marketed the firs consumer transistor radio and 
> what
> year?	
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