Regency Scanner 1st?

[SoupBone50]

Does anyone know the very 1st Regency Scanner Model name and number?

 

[sibbley]

A good place to look. https://www.radiomuseum.org/m/regency_usa_en_1.html

 

[W8RMH]

I had a Regency 8 channel crystal scanner in the early 1970s I believe it was their first. It was VHF HI and LO, before UHF. It is not on the museum list.

 

[mule1075]

Could have been any one of these.

 

[BushDoctor]

1st Regency

Does anyone know the very 1st Regency Scanner Model name and number?

In March of 1963 I purchased a Regency M-40 $99.99 it was a 12 volt DC 30 to 50Mhz monitor radio for my car to replace a Gonset 30 to 40Mhz $49.99 tuner that i wired into my car am radio in the 50s after Cincinnati and Wheeling WV stopped transmitting just above the AM broadcast band which i adjusted my AM osc.+rf amps to rx back in the 40s to the 50s Also sometime either prior or after the M-40 i bought a tunable Regency PR-155B 152 to 174MHz hi-band 120VAC and in 1964 i also bought 2 12volt crystal 6 channel crystal controlled high band regency TM-H6s. I am 80 but as i remember it the M-40 was available well before i purchased it 3 or 4 years maybe i heard California for my first time ever on it with a double skip and Louisiana State police on 39.50 all over the state as well as Rapides Parish on 39.42 as well. After CB in 1958 4W0693 i finally got my ham license in 1968 wb4igu I still have my TM-H2 and it still works on 12VDC and 120VAC and since i became a Motorola Field Service Tech after leaving the USAF in 1964 I now have antique Motorolas as well as scanners

 

[chief21]

It was a long time ago, but I believe that the TMR VHF-only model (with the eight red lights) was the first Regency that I can remember.

- John

 

[bb911]

In March of 1963 I purchased a Regency M-40 $99.99 it was a 12 volt DC 30 to 50Mhz monitor radio for my car to replace a Gonset 30 to 40Mhz $49.99 tuner that i wired into my car am radio in the 50s after Cincinnati and Wheeling WV stopped transmitting just above the AM broadcast band which i adjusted my AM osc.+rf amps to rx back in the 40s to the 50s Also sometime either prior or after the M-40 i bought a tunable Regency PR-155B 152 to 174MHz hi-band 120VAC and in 1964 i also bought 2 12volt crystal 6 channel crystal controlled high band regency TM-H6s. I am 80 but as i remember it the M-40 was available well before i purchased it 3 or 4 years maybe i heard California for my first time ever on it with a double skip and Louisiana State police on 39.50 all over the state as well as Rapides Parish on 39.42 as well. After CB in 1958 4W0693 i finally got my ham license in 1968 wb4igu I still have my TM-H2 and it still works on 12VDC and 120VAC and since i became a Motorola Field Service Tech after leaving the USAF in 1964 I now have antique Motorolas as well as scanners

Thanks for sharing. I'm not quite as old as you, but I also recall some of the tunable radios. I had a Panasonic AM/FM/VHF HI radio (RF 1080) that can still be found on ebay at times.

Also, Montgomery Wards carried several tunable radios in the early 70's.

 

[lou9155]

i do miss regency had a k100 k500 m100 hx1000

 

[wtp]

i don't know if it was the first

but i remember seeing a 4 channel unit VHF high band.

 

[SoupBone50]

A good place to look. https://www.radiomuseum.org/m/regency_usa_en_1.html

Thanks Sibbley for that site, I'll check it out.

 

[SoupBone50]

I'll look that up , thanks W8RMH

 

[SoupBone50]

MULE1075, those pics are so helpful. I appreciate yu posting them. I'm still researching.

 

[SoupBone50]

In March of 1963 I purchased a Regency M-40 $99.99 it was a 12 volt DC 30 to 50Mhz monitor radio for my car to replace a Gonset 30 to 40Mhz $49.99 tuner that i wired into my car am radio in the 50s after Cincinnati and Wheeling WV stopped transmitting just above the AM broadcast band which i adjusted my AM osc.+rf amps to rx back in the 40s to the 50s Also sometime either prior or after the M-40 i bought a tunable Regency PR-155B 152 to 174MHz hi-band 120VAC and in 1964 i also bought 2 12volt crystal 6 channel crystal controlled high band regency TM-H6s. I am 80 but as i remember it the M-40 was available well before i purchased it 3 or 4 years maybe i heard California for my first time ever on it with a double skip and Louisiana State police on 39.50 all over the state as well as Rapides Parish on 39.42 as well. After CB in 1958 4W0693 i finally got my ham license in 1968 wb4igu I still have my TM-H2 and it still works on 12VDC and 120VAC and since i became a Motorola Field Service Tech after leaving the USAF in 1964 I now have antique Motorolas as well as scanners

tyvm BushDoctor, you have a great knowledge of scanner. I'm checking on a M-40

 

[SoupBone50]

It was a long time ago, but I believe that the TMR VHF-only model (with the eight red lights) was the first Regency that I can remember.

- John

Thanks chief21, I'll look that up. I'm trying to locate Regencys 1st one, may be impossible..lol

 

[SoupBone50]

but i remember seeing a 4 channel unit VHF high band.

wpt, yeah I've saw the 4 channel scanner. thanks so much for that info

 

[SoupBone50]

i do miss regency had a k100 k500 m100 hx1000

Lou9192, My father always kept one on, he had a R-106 and that's what got me into Regency's

 

[oracavon]

Here's a chart listing the available models from a 1974 Regency brochure, if that helps anyone.

 

[bb911]

Lou9192, My father always kept one on, he had a R-106 and that's what got me into Regency's

I had one also (R-106). They were good radios and had the sliding pots for vol and squelch, as I'm sure you recall.

 

[cmdrwill]

Mine was 'dual band', VHF and low band. It had funny things inside that lit up and got hot... vacuum tubes.

 

[scannersnstuff]

Not the first, but I had the hx-1000 and hx-1200. Great scanner's. They would actually accept vhf-air, and decode it in fm,but not am. Although, I liked them, they were repair hog's.