{"id":2766,"date":"2015-03-16T07:51:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T05:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2015-03-16T14:22:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T12:22:04","slug":"ross-micro-eight-re-815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2766","title":{"rendered":"Ross Micro Eight (RE-815)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people collect tiny transistor radios<\/a>. I don’t have enough of them to call it a collection but I guess I’m working on it.<\/p>\n

The Ross Electronics Corporation<\/a> imported transistor radios<\/a> from Japan from 1955 to about 1970. They were located at 589 East Illinois Street and later (I think) 2834 South Lock Street, Chicago. As far as I can tell, there’s no relation to the Ross Radio Company<\/a> of Youngstown, Ohio.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a better image of the schematic on the inside of the back cover (yes, there was a time when radios came with schematics).<\/p>\n

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It would be a mistake to expect good performance from a 1965-ish design running on one 1.5V cell, but the performance of my one is beyond mediocre. But then again, I didn’t really buy it to use it.<\/p>\n

Mike has a nicer one<\/a>, in a box nogal<\/a>.<\/p>\n