I just picked up an old Realistic receiver that has 5 bands; AM, FM, Marine
Band, SW1 & SW2. It's a rectangular receiver taller than it is wide, and
runs off 4 C-cell batteries (or an electrical outlet adaptor). All I can
find on it for a model is "12-1433" on a label on the back, along with the
following info: 23 solid state devices, 12 transistors, 10 diodes, 1
thermistor. Does anyone have any pointers to specs, pix, manuals, whatever?

Rachael Caldwell wrote:

I just picked up an old Realistic receiver that has 5 bands; AM, FM, Marine
Band, SW1 & SW2. It's a rectangular receiver taller than it is wide, and
runs off 4 C-cell batteries (or an electrical outlet adaptor). All I can
find on it for a model is "12-1433" on a label on the back, along with the
following info: 23 solid state devices, 12 transistors, 10 diodes, 1
thermistor. Does anyone have any pointers to specs, pix, manuals, whatever?

I looked on the Radio Shack site and could find nothing. You might wish to ask
Radio Shack directly:

http://www.radioshack.com/helpdesk/index.jsp?display=store&subdisplay=contact&stillHa veQuestion=yes

Good luck.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

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says...
I just picked up an old Realistic receiver that has 5 bands; AM, FM, Marine
Band, SW1 & SW2. It's a rectangular receiver taller than it is wide, and
runs off 4 C-cell batteries (or an electrical outlet adaptor). All I can
find on it for a model is "12-1433" on a label on the back, along with the
following info: 23 solid state devices, 12 transistors, 10 diodes, 1
thermistor. Does anyone have any pointers to specs, pix, manuals, whatever?




Look for a nearly identical looking (it is exactly the same inside)
radio sold under several names, the most common one, and the one I had
was Lloyd's. I believe there was a Philco version, and there was a very
similar looking Lafayette one too. Not a great radio by any means, but I
enjoyed my Lloyd's enough to buy a Realistic one at a garage sale later
on. They (I think Lloyd's was the actual maker) cranked them out for
years. I saw one at a neighbor's garage sale with some odd name on it,
they had brought it with them from Australia. I didn't buy that one.


BDK

On Aug 14, 1:02 pm, "Rachael Caldwell" wrote:
I just picked up an old Realistic receiver that has 5 bands; AM, FM, Marine
Band, SW1 & SW2. It's a rectangular receiver taller than it is wide, and
runs off 4 C-cell batteries (or an electrical outlet adaptor). All I can
find on it for a model is "12-1433" on a label on the back, along with the
following info: 23 solid state devices, 12 transistors, 10 diodes, 1
thermistor. Does anyone have any pointers to specs, pix, manuals, whatever?


Radio Shack radios actually had TWO model names per radio: the
official model (what you cited) and a fancy name for promotional
literature. I suspect that you've got one of the "Astronaut" named
radios from the 70s. Open it up and see if there's a paper label
listing exactly what each transistor and diode is, along with a crude
schematic. On that label may be the actual radio name.

That sounds about as easy as finding info/spec's on the radio; got any
useful suggestions?

"rat" wrote in message
oups.com...
Get a radio shack catalog from the mid 70's. They made a lot of those
multiband junkboxes.

Where does one find these catalogues?


"BDK" wrote in message
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says...
Get a radio shack catalog from the mid 70's. They made a lot of those
multiband junkboxes.



You should find it in a 70, 71, or so Radio Shack Catalog. I bet they
must have made a million of those things if you added up all the names
they were sold under.

BDK