This is a fabulous Zenith multi-band AM & Shortwave communications receiver that receives the super VLF band, the AM broadcast band, and 3 shortwave bands for all frequencies from near 5MHz through 30MHz.  This receiver is working very well and is in near mint condition.  It has adjustable volume and RF sensitivity, band selection, and bandspread.  It also has a built in BFO to receive code and SSB signals as well as an automatic noise limiter as well.  It has a built in speaker on the right hand end of the receiver.  This is a pretty rare find and in the 12 years that REA has been buying/selling/restoring and repairing receivers, this is only the 2nd one that we have ever seen and this one is in pristine near mint condition.  In the 2nd picture below, you see part of an operating manual that is being provided on how to operate this receiver.  The 3rd photo shows the back of the radio and you can see it has a built in wave-magnet antenna that in most locations is all you need to get great performance, but it also has antenna connections for an outside or external antenna, as well as an audio output to an auxiliary amplifier or tuner where you could send the audio for more processing or amplification, and of course, all good communication receiver should have an earphone jack, which this has as well.  This is a great compact vintage tube receiver that will outperform most of the expensive state of the art digital radios of today.  Sorry but we only have this one.

$ 395

Spring Sale $ 299

This is the famous National NC-100 HF Receiver.  The NC-100 was introduced in 1936 and was National's first successful receiver to not use plug-in coils.  National's mechanical engineers offered a solution with the NC-100 receiver that eliminated the plug-in coils of the previous model receivers that they made. A movable cast metal coil box called a "catacomb" contained all of the coils mounted in individual shielded compartments with short contact pins mounted in molded insulators on top of the catacomb . The band selector knob turned a rack and pinion gear mechanism that moved the coil catacomb into place engaging the proper coil set pins into short, fixed contacts mounted under the tuning condenser. The mechanical action simulated plugging in a three coil set for each band with the ease of turning a knob while keeping all of the unused coils isolated and shielded. The NC-100 was a general coverage receiver using 12 tubes including a cathode-ray tuning indicator that was included for AM reception.

This receiver is another vintage receiver  from the Frank Wanja estate.  The power cord needs replacing as it is stiff as a board but for you ham radio operators out there, that should be a small price to pay to get this Art Deco receiver going.  We have cut off the end and most of the power cord as it is electrically unsound.  We did plug it into AC power and it powers up.  We do not have time to fully test all of this estate, so we are just making sure that all the parts are there and that the power supply is working to power up these old vintage beauties.  This is a fairly rare model and in all the years I have been in ham radio and running Radio Era Archives, this is the first early NC-100 that I have ever seen.  As you can see, it needs some cosmetic cleaning but all of the DECO is in very nice condition.  On the top view picture, you can see that all the parts are there and that all of the parts are the original with the "NC" on the IF transformers and power transformer.  This is a rarely seen receiver that deserves to be preserved in a museum or ham receiver collection . . . . or perhaps just to use it.  The green jewel lamp is a pilot lamp that lights up when powered u p.  The tuning eye is primarly used for broadcast AM reception. 

This is a working receiver but needs a lot of tender loving care.  We are selling it "as is" as working but have not tested it nor have the time to put it on an antenna system to see what it can do.  This is a very hard to find vintage radio that belongs in someone's earlier communication receiver collection.

$ 250

New arrivals pending:

Near Mint Hallicrafters SX-88 working FB

Collins Gold Dust Twins, 75A-4, KWS-1, Speaker, Spares

Hallicrafters S20R

Several Hallicrafters S38 series (A, B, C, D)