[Hallicrafters] Echophone and Halicrafters

[manualman at juno.com]

And don't forget, Trio made most of Lafayette's amateur/short wave radio
line.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 17:25:56 -0400 (EDT) N4ch at aol.com writes:
> 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.