To be fair, the seller sold it for this modest price because he was not sure if the radio worked. I spent a whopping $5 on the little Arvin in the Hamvention fleamarket. Though I believe I spent more money at the Dayton Hamvention this year than I have in all previous years, I only purchased one radio: the Arvin 68R58 eight-transistor. I display in proudly in my ham shack.Īnd thank you for sharing your memories and the great photos of your Arvin Model 61R35, Gary! What a cute little radio–I’m glad you’ve taken care of it all of these years. I was fortunate not to lose this radio in my many moves throughout the years. No one in my “little” town could fix solid state radios back then. Unfortunately, I think this is what killed the radio and required my folks to mail it off to the big city (Flint, Michigan) to have it repaired.
#SMALLEST TRANSISTOR RADIOS OF 1930 PC#
I used to love to put my fingers on the PC board while the radio was on and listen to the buzzes and noise that I could create. They were hard to find even back then, and I expect impossible to find today. Mine had seven Germanium (!) transistors (as silicon transistors were not yet in wide production in the early 60s).Īnd Made in America! Arvin was an Indiana company as I recall. It was the first radio that was mine (though we did have an older Crosley tabletop in the living room of our house in Midland, Michigan that we all used). My parents bought it for me in roughly 1962 or 63.
This is the Arvin Model 61R35 in Ice Blue (it also came in black). An Arvin transistor was my very first radio, and here she is: The recent posts on Arvin radios made me smile because I have an Arvin radio too. It’s funny how much we radio folks share in common. Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gary Wise (W4EEY), who shares the following guest post:
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