[Boatanchors] First American Transistor Radio

[Todd Bigelow - PS]

I have an old Motorola 'Pixie' that looks like an early transistor, but 
is actually a battery operated Tube portable. Tiny, too! I'm guessing it 
was a pre-cursor to the next step...transistors. Perhaps an attempt to 
get people used to tiny (for those days) radios?

Somewhere in my 'stuff' is also a pair of tiny (maybe 3" sq) Orion 
transistors with cases, in their original boxes. Certainly early, 
probably not the first, though. They have a very 50s-ish look to them.

Who made the Vanguard? That was an early transistor of US origins, 
wasn't it? Had a green one, sold it at a hamfest maybe 10 years back.

Howard, were those mexican 'super stations' still on the air in the 70s? 
I could swear I picked up some X*** station(s) back then on the cold New 
England nights...

de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ

Howard L Ritter, Jr wrote:

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