[Hallicrafters] Echophone and Halicrafters

[rbethman]

Herman,

I'm glad you chimed in!

It just further demonstrates this gray area.

Too many names that were actually made by someone altogether different.

Uniden had themselves buried in so many different advertised named 
products that makes it difficult to keep track of.  They were especially 
involved in many CB radio names that if you can simply identify the main 
board, you can find a large number of them made by Uniden.

Just about "any" upd-858 PLL is theirs.  That covered almost all of 
those by Cobra and Radio-Shack, (Realistic).

I have even traced a few Hy-Gain chassis' that were nothing but Unidens.

Bob - N0DGN

On 4/7/2014 5:25 PM, N4ch at aol.com wrote:
> Yaesu made the Tempo One for Henry Radio, not Trio/Kenwood.   Have 
> heard some guys say they thought the later-offered Tempo 2020 (a 
> fairly high-end hybrid transceiver) was made by Kenwood, but in 
> actuality it was made by Uniden, who made numerous assorted HF and VHF 
> transceivers for quite a few US ham radio suppliers (one example is 
> the Clegg FM-76, Cobra 200, and Midland 13-509.........all were 
> essentially the same 10 watt 220 MHz FM transceivers, differing only 
> in cosmetics). Trio/Kenwood made quite a few early 2 meter FM rigs for 
> RL Drake, too.   Belcom made KLM's Echo II and Echo 70 (early 
> solid-state 2 meter and 70 CM SSB/CW transceivers) as well as a couple 
> of Heath (non-kit) handhelds (but more of Heath's "factory built" 
> FM stuff was made by Marantz/Standard).   The SBE "Sidebander 6" (6 
> meters SSB/CW) was also made by Belcom...........Mizuho made an 
> assortment of low power SSB handheld transceivers for AEA, and the 
> list goes on and on and ON.
> 73, Herman, N4CH.
>