National NC-121

Object/Artifact

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Radio Alpha

Image: Joe Veras, K9OCO

Image: Joe Veras, K9OCO

Name/Title

National NC-121

Description

General Coverage Receiver

Category

Receiver, General Coverage

Made/Created

Manufacturer

National Company

Date made

1963 - 1965

General Notes

Note

QST, Aug 1963. p. 145. QST, Dec 1963, inside back cover. CQ, Jan 1966, p. 13. (This is probably a close out sale. Osterman lists 1965 as the last year of manufacture.) The six-tube NC-121 was a single-conversion set covering 0.55–30 MHz. It had a built-in 5 inch speaker and a Q-Multiplier. The NC-121 had separate detectors for AM and CW/SSB. The main tuning dial was directly calibrated and band spread used a 0–100 logging scale. References Brief description. Popular Electronics, Feb 1964, p. 25.