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Old 12-01-2015, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by radiotvnut View Post
I'm not much into the newer radios; but, I decided to get this one because it's a TG&Y-branded set and I don't see that brand very much. I also remember going into the local TG&Y with my Mother, until it closed in the mid '90's.

This radio was made in Hong Kong and the outside looks like some Realtone models that I've seen. It's a 6-transistor set that uses a power transformer and the power switch is in the low voltage side of the transformer (the transformer is live as long as the radio is plugged in). For something that probably cost $9.99 when new, it performs fairly well.

When I was working on a lot of TV's in the '90's, I saw several TG&Y sets and most of them were made by either Sampo or NEC.
Hokutone speaker, quality stuff. They made speakers for a bunch of importers like Calrad, GC Electronics (Calectro) and Olson.

I guess TG&Y went away some years ago - I was a frequent shopper at TG&Y back in 1984/85 in Millington Tennessee. It was either there or travel into Memphis to go shopping...

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