I recall staring at the Eldico transceiver in the ham mags for months.  Imagine a one cubic foot rig that incorporated both transmitter and receiver in one unit.  There were actually two VFO's that could control either transmit, receive, or amazingly both with one knob!!!  That blew me away in those days.  Of course I couldn't afford anything that state-of-the-art.

At 09:43 AM 4/19/02 -0400, you wrote:
>There were many more Hallicrafters models.  The 100 and 101 just happened to
>be the most popular.  The first radio I owned was a Hallicrafters S-85
>general coverage receiver.  HeathKit was also a really major player at the
>time--there were probably more HeathKit receivers and transmitters actually
>in daily use that there were some of the commercially-built rigs.  There
>were also GlobeKing and Gonsett, just to name two that immediately leap to
>mind.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David R. Basden" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:36 AM
>Subject: Re: Old Receivers
>
>
>The major manufacturers in the early 60's were Hallicrafters, National,
>Hammurland, and Collins.  As I recall, the SX100 (general coverage) and
>SX101A were the Hallicrafters models, the Nc300 and then NC303 were  the
>National models, the Hammurland HQ160 (general coverage) and HQ170 were the
>Hammurland models, and the Collins 75A4 was the Collins model .  A couple
>of others whose makers I have forgotten were the GPR90 and the RME4300.