RL Drake 1A Ham Radio Receiver - $450 (Iowa City)

You're looking at an extremely rare Drake 1A ham radio receiver.
This HF amateur radio band receiver was the RL Drake company's first amateur radio receiver, circa 1957-58, with only approximately 500 of these radios made.
It was a revolutionary design for its time, being designed for single sideband use, taking up a fraction of the space of competing radios, weighed less than 20 pounds (when competing radios often weighed 50-100 pounds) and outperformed the competition.
This radio began Drake's long legacy of producing high-performance amateur and professional radio equipment, which carried on into the early 2000s.
This radio covers the 80-10 meter amateur bands, plus gives coverage of WWV at 10 MHz.
It has a 100 kHz crystal calibrator and speaker built in.
The radio powers up immediately and receives well on all bands.
I used it for a few years at my vintage radio position and enjoyed it.
I've enjoyed having it around, but newer shiny radio objects have come into the house and I don't have a spot on the bench for this any longer.
So, it's time to find a new home for this cool piece of radio history.
Price: $450/best offer.
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