Other Equipment Suppliers

Scott Radio Laboratories

While not a main-line marine radio equipment supplier Scott Radio Laboratories deserve recognition because of ttheir low-radiation marine radio receivers that helped U.S. shipping avoid the German U boats during WW2.

Click on the image to go to a page of Scott Radio Laboratories photos

Small Companies

There were many suppliers of marine radios, some very substantial with their own pages on this site, but many more that were much smaller, and often short lived. I don't have much information on these, but this list of them is from the Allan Lytel book as augmented with several earlier companies known to me.

Marconi AM unit - 1960s?	Marconi direction finding receiver Marconi was a substantial marine radio supplier, but these 2 photos are the only ones that I have of Marconi gear.

L. R. Dooley, Inc. - USCG Receiver R-138 - See more detail on the R-138 Page	Western Electric - Pre-WW2 Marine Unit Model 229B- 10W - The only photo I have for WE marine gear.

Harvey Radio Lab Model M-25 25Watt	10 Watt Islip Marine Radiotelephone

Ray-Jefferson Model-1400	Ray-Jefferson Model 5000M

Apelco Direction Finder Receiver Model DF10	Computing Devices of Canada Ltd. Model CDM-85SB

Konel Model KR-153SB	Lafayette Model HE-12

Northern Radio Model N550	Raytheon Model RAY-1208

RF Comm. Model RF-210	RF Comm. Model RF-1530

Communication Associates CR-70 Receiver	Sideband Assoc. Model SBA-75

Pearce-Simpson - Islander 90	Northern Radio Model N550 - Photo by Tom Drake

Ray-Jefferson Model 7878M VHF FM	Ray-Jefferson Model 5000 VHF FM

Canadian Marconi MC XH-14 Transistorized HF RX	Drake Model TR-M HF SSB Transceiver

While the advertisement below (A HOT LINK) is for one of the larger companies, it is typical of marine radio manufacturers ads of the period. Over the years I collected the 20 ads included in the PDF. These are mostly smaller-company ads but also includes one ad for each of the larger companies. For additional advertisements see this PDF of 19 RMCA advertisements .

Click on the image for a PDF of 20 marine radio company advertisements

The 15 photos below were originally on the, now dead, The Chum Bucket site.
They were recovered via the Wayback Machine.

Hudson American Privateer	Raytheon 1055A.

Apelco 101W	Bendix Skipper 2

Jefferson-Travis Model 102	Konel KR-33V VHF FM.

Apelco 30.	Sonar M35W

Bendix Skipper 28	Hartman Model 3056.

Ray Jefferson 635	Ray Jefferson 410.

Simpson 45	Sonar Model 65.

Jefferson-Travis portables: M-2b on the left and M-3 on the right.

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