Configuration descriptions and comparisons
between the different Regency TR radios can be found at:
http://www.ericwrobbel.com
http://people.msoe.edu/~reyer/regency/
http://www.transistor.org/collection/regency/regency1.html (at this web page, click right arrow to view
various TR models and descriptions)
View Steve Reyer's TR-1s
directly from "Regency TR-1 Transistor Radio Facts and Figures" web
site http://people.msoe.edu/~reyer/regency/. click on a color
and view full size TR-1, and browser back button to return
TR-4, 1957 at $29.95 on the left, and the original TR-1, 1954 at $49.95.
The clear TR-1 on the left is owned by Bret Phillips of
Spartonburg, South Carolina, and is displayed at
http://www.indianaradios.com/RegencyTR-1ClearCase.htm
along with several other views of this radio [Bret's
web site:
http://www.radioexpo.org]. The clear radio on the right is a Texas Instruments
prototype. The Smithsonian Institute displays another clear TR-1 as
part of the Texas Instruments archives at
http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/texas/t_266.htm.
Ads for Regency Products
1954-55 Early TR-1 ad (Holiday
magazine) [click
here]
1956 TR-1-G ad [click here]
1956 TR-1-G, TR-5, TR-6 ad (Dallas Morning News, Dec. 20, 1956) [click here]
1956 TR-1, Neiman-Marcus ad
(Dallas Times Herald, April 22,
1956) [click
here]
1957 Regency transistorized record player, PR-4 and XR-2a radio ad (Holiday magazine, circa '57) [click here]
1957 TR-4 and XR-2a ad (Fortune magazine, December, 1957) [click here]
circa 1960 Regency brochure XR-2a, TR-11,
TR-99, misc broadcast receivers [click
here]
MISC Regency
Transistor Amateur
Radio
Amateur Radio hobbyist entered the transistor
world in 1956 with the Regency ATC-1 show below. The source of this
picture, the story and more details are found at http://www.miami.muohio.edu/president/personal/w8zr/vintage/receivers/atc1.htm
Early Couch
Potato TV Remote
The RT-700 allowed TV viewers to change channels,
control volume and fine tune from across the room [click
here to enlarge image]
TR-8A Transistor
Radio
Specs: 6 transistors, 4 3/4" W
x 3 1/4" T x 3 1/4" D,
4.5v Burgess 2Z3 battery [click
here to view image]
TV
Boosters
TV boosters were Regency's first major product line.
top left: DB-520; bottom left: sold as Sears "Silverton" model 6645;
top right: DB-400; bottom right: RC-53 UHF converter [click
here to enlarge image]
more Regency/IDEA
artifacts
Artifacts from Regency/IDEA are on display at the
Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation in
Glendale, Arizona and found on the web at
http://www.smecc.org/idea___regency.htm
50+ Years in
Business
Regency became RELM Communications in 1989,
and is currently operating as RELM Wireless
Corporation. The 1991 Annual Report
featured the TR-1 on the company's 55th anniversary. click here to
view 1991
Annual Report
