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I know next to nothing about this equipment !
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Information on RCA Land Mobile Radio Equipment Compiled by Mike Morris WA6ILQ Web page formerly maintained by Robert Meister WA1MIK (SK) Currently Maintained by Mike Morris WA6ILQ I know next to nothing about this equipment ! |
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Technical Information
Paraphrased from Wikipedia and other sources:
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America. It was initially a patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse, AT&T Corporation and United Fruit Company. In 1932, RCA became an independent company after the partners were required to divest their ownership as part of the settlement of a government antitrust suit.
RCA was the dominant electronics and communications firm in the United States for over five decades. In the early 1920s RCA was at the forefront of the mushrooming radio industry as a major manufacturer of radio receivers, and the exclusive manufacturer of the first superheterodyne receiving sets based on the dsesigns of Edwin Armstrong. The company also created the first nationwide American radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). RCA was also a pioneer in the introduction and development of television, both black and white and especially color.
Throughout most of the company's existence, RCA was closely identified with the leadership of David Sarnoff. He became general manager at the company's founding, served as president from 1930 to 1965, and remained active as chairman of the board until the end of 1969. Sarnoff retired in 1970, at the age of 79, and died the following year, aged 80.
Page maintainers note: I read somewhere that Mr. Sarnoff was a licensed amateur radio operator. Anyone know when, and what his call sign was?
General Electric acquired RCA in 1986 and liquidated most of its assets. In 1988, the rights to manufacture consumer electronics products under the RCA and GE brands was acquired by Thomson Consumer Electronics, in exchange for some of Thomson's medical businesses. Thomson's successor, Vantiva, licenses the RCA brand name and trademarks to several other companies.
At some point the rights to the RCA name were acquired by Talisman Brands, Inc. and is used on products made by that company as well as Sony Music Entertainment, Voxx International and ON Corporation.
Update 2022: RCA quit the land mobile radio businesses in the late 90's.
Today the RCA branded radios are all of Chinese manufacture and sold by a company that
appears to have bought the rights to an old established USA radio company name.
My one interaction with them was an inquiry about programming software and a cable: "We only talk to dealers" (click).
If you don't see what you need here, then we weren't given it.
In the 1960s RCA also made tube-style trunk-mount two-way radio equipment, similar to the GE Progress Line and the Motorola Twin-V radios. At the moment we don't have any info on that vintage equipment.
Later on there was a series called the TAC series... models included the TAC200 and TAC300. They resembled GE Mastr IIs but thinner.
The following articles and manuals were scanned and converted to PDF by Bob N3LKL. Most came with BMP, JPG, and PCX files for every page.
Other manuals and sales brochures:
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