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== History == |
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The company started as a division of [[NCR Corporation|NCR]] in [[Florida]]. A key executive was Dick Ehrhorn, ham callsigns W4ETO and W0ID. Beginning in the 1960s with the Signal/One CX7, ("S1", as they were called) the company made radios that were priced well above the competition and offered many advanced features for the time,<ref>http://www.wa3key.com/sigone.html ''Virtual Signal/One Radio Museum''</ref> such as [[passband]] tuning, [[broadband]] transmission, dual receive, built-in [[Telegraph key|IAMBIC]] keyer, electronic digital read out, [[solid state (electronics)|solid state]] design, QSK and RF clipping. A Signal/One radio was said to be a complete high performance, station in a box.<ref |
The company started as a division of [[NCR Corporation|NCR]] in [[Florida]]. A key executive was Dick Ehrhorn, ham callsigns W4ETO and W0ID. Beginning in the 1960s with the Signal/One CX7, ("S1", as they were called) the company made radios that were priced well above the competition and offered many advanced features for the time,<ref name="Virtual Signal/One Radio Museum">http://www.wa3key.com/sigone.html ''Virtual Signal/One Radio Museum''</ref> such as [[passband]] tuning, [[broadband]] transmission, dual receive, built-in [[Telegraph key|IAMBIC]] keyer, electronic digital read out, [[solid state (electronics)|solid state]] design, QSK and RF clipping. A Signal/One radio was said to be a complete high performance, station in a box.<ref name="Virtual Signal/One Radio Museum"/> |
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While marketed to the affluent radio amateur, it has been suggested that the primary market for Signal/One, like [[Collins Radio|Collins]], was military, State Department, and government clandestine (spy) communications. Although prized for the performance and advanced engineering, Signal/One's products did not sell as well as hoped, and the company gradually fell on hard times. From the 1970s though the 1990s, every few years, Signal/One was spun off, sold, and resurfaced at another location.<ref |
While marketed to the affluent radio amateur, it has been suggested that the primary market for Signal/One, like [[Collins Radio|Collins]], was military, State Department, and government clandestine (spy) communications. Although prized for the performance and advanced engineering, Signal/One's products did not sell as well as hoped, and the company gradually fell on hard times. From the 1970s though the 1990s, every few years, Signal/One was spun off, sold, and resurfaced at another location.<ref name="Virtual Signal/One Radio Museum"/> |
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== Collectors == |
== Collectors == |
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Revision as of 23:45, 29 December 2008
Signal/One was a manufacturer of high performance SSB and CW HF radio communications transceivers initially based in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
History
The company started as a division of NCR in Florida. A key executive was Dick Ehrhorn, ham callsigns W4ETO and W0ID. Beginning in the 1960s with the Signal/One CX7, ("S1", as they were called) the company made radios that were priced well above the competition and offered many advanced features for the time,[1] such as passband tuning, broadband transmission, dual receive, built-in IAMBIC keyer, electronic digital read out, solid state design, QSK and RF clipping. A Signal/One radio was said to be a complete high performance, station in a box.[1]
While marketed to the affluent radio amateur, it has been suggested that the primary market for Signal/One, like Collins, was military, State Department, and government clandestine (spy) communications. Although prized for the performance and advanced engineering, Signal/One's products did not sell as well as hoped, and the company gradually fell on hard times. From the 1970s though the 1990s, every few years, Signal/One was spun off, sold, and resurfaced at another location.[1]
Collectors
The surviving Signal/One products are sought after and actively collected. These include the CX7, CX7A, CX7B, CX11 and Milspec models. The last Signal/One radio was a re-engineered ICOM IC-781.
Notes
- ^ a b c http://www.wa3key.com/sigone.html Virtual Signal/One Radio Museum
See also
External links
- www.hammanuals.com Links to Signal/One resources on the web
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