Came across this in a large consignment store

[Zigzag03]

Wandering around a local consignment shop, came across this, made my eyes pop. Says it works, who knows. Quite pricey. Anyone know anything about these, opinions? Thanks.

 

[ecps92]

Wandering around a local consignment shop, came across this, made my eyes pop. Says it works, who knows. Quite pricey. Anyone know anything about these, opinions? Thanks.

NATIONAL RADIO HRO-500 MANUAL Pdf Download

View and Download National Radio HRO-500 manual online. Communications receiver. HRO-500 radio pdf manual download.

www.manualslib.com

 

[Fast1eddie]

Oh man, what a find! It is a National Panasonic HRO series, vintage early '50's to mid 60's. Highly collectible.

 

[Fast1eddie]

Reviewed the image again and can clearly see it is a HRO 500. It was manufactured from 1964 to 1973. A very scarce model, my reference is Fred Osterman's Shortwave receivers past and present. Shows a used resale value between $1600-$2700.

Quite a radio, had several options in using a nicad battery for field use.

Depending on condition I would seriously look at a deal.

 

[Zigzag03]

They're looking for 1395, I might offer a grand and see if I get a response. Has the manual with it. I'll let you all know how I do! Edit: and see if they'll let me plug it in!

 

[Fast1eddie]

Definitely ask to fire it up. Bring along several feet of wire to use as a antenna. Tune WWV and see how she sounds.

 

[MTS2000des]

Oh man, what a find! It is a National Panasonic HRO series, vintage early '50's to mid 60's. Highly collectible.

This is not a Panasonic/Matsushita radio, it is a US built product from National Radio.
Regardless, it is going to need a lot of restoration to make it worth their ebay flipper ripoff asking price. As it sits I'd be at $300 as Ashley Broad would say.

It is going to need a LOT of restoration and this means time and money. How many folks do you know do that kind of work? Very few good ones left breathing and in active business in the USA, and they can (and do) charge premium. Seller says it "works". Define that. They plugged it in and it lit up. Are they a licensed ham qualified to assess? No, just a greedy flipper turd who wants to cash in.

Don't know about you all, but these flipper ripoff artists are really starting to tick me off. The flipper turd got paid to clean out a house/estate and because "one sold on ebay in 2013 for xxxx" they think they have a gold bar.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

Wandering around a local consignment shop, came across this, made my eyes pop. Says it works, who knows. Quite pricey. Anyone know anything about these, opinions? Thanks.

I bought a Drake TR-7A HF transceiver and power supply at a thrift store for $60. It was dusty and smelled badly of tobacco. It was missing a few parts due to previous owner's failed attempt to fix an intermittent problem. I brought it home and thanks to help of a co worker who collected those, I was able to get the one scarce mechanical part it was missing. The first problem was tackling the tobacco odor and the sticky vinyl case.

I had to soak the bare case and bare chassis into various cleaners and chemicals. Then the troubleshooting. It boiled down to an feedthrough eyelet on a board shorting to the lead of a diode. The radio probably was flaky the day it was built. I had it working perfectly and found a willing buyer for $600. That money directly went toward an ICOM IC-575H. Unless the radio works and smells good, I would not pay more than you can afford to invest in time and money. But you will find collectors for good working old radios.