Collins 75A-1 Amateur Band Receiver in Excellent Condition Working

This Collins 75A-1 Amateur Band Receiver in Excellent Condition and Working Great.

 You will be hard pressed to find a cleaner and nicer example of a 75A-1 receiver!

I powered this receiver up and put it on the air and it receives well on all the bands and seems to function as it should. 

 As with most vintage gear it may be improved with an alignment or tube replacement.

This receiver is part of a collection of a client who has been collecting vintage gear for many years and is selling due to having to move.

 I am very proficient packing this type of vintage gear and I purchase the correct Double wall boxes and packing material to assure safe shipment.

 The shipping quote should be close but if it is less I will refund the difference.

Shipping is at the risk of the buyer for any amount insurance does not cover.

I will provide an excellent copy of the manual

 Save the shipping cost by picking up this item near Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Around 1947, the company introduced their first amateur radio receiver, the 75A-1 (called the 75A). This set achieved excellent stability for the time due to high build quality and the use of a permeability tuned oscillator (PTO) in its second conversion stage. It was one of the few double conversion superheterodynes on the market and covered only the amateur bands.

With the experience gained in the design of the 75A-1, Collins released the 51J-1 receiver, a general coverage HF set covering .5 to 30 MHz. It would be produced in somewhat updated versions (51J-2, 51J-3, 51J-4) for about a decade. It was known as the R-388 and was used in multiple receiver diversity RTTY installations.

The 75A amateur line was updated throughout the early 50s, finishing with the 75A-4, which was released in 1955. The Collins mechanical filter was introduced to consumers in the 75A-3, and the 75A-4 was one of the first receivers marketed specifically as a single sideband receiver.