Manufacturer of radio equipment, televisions, and phonographs
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Hallicrafters Company
Industry
Electronics
Founded
1932
Founder
William J. Halligan
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Products
radio equipment
Number of employees
2,500 (1952)
The Hallicrafters Company manufactured, marketed, and sold radio equipment, and to a lesser extent televisions and phonographs, beginning in 1932. The company was founded by William J. Halligan and based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
In 1966 Halligan sold the company to the Northrop Corporation and Halligan family involvement ended. Northrop ran the company until the early 1970s, but by this time, fierce Japanese competition was putting pressure on the US domestic electronics market. Northrop sold the company name (but kept the factory, by then located in Rolling Meadows, a Chicago suburb) in 1975, bringing non-military electronics production to an end, and turning the plant into Northrop Corporation's Defense Systems Division.
production to an end. The Hallicrafters plant became Northrop Corporation's Defense Systems Division. The name and assets of Hallicrafters were traded over the...
- in their Trans-Oceanics - and its short-lived rivals, such as the Hallicrafters TW-1000 and the RCA Strat-O-World and very few others. In fact, Zenith...
of detecting 30–33 MHz Lorenz signals, so they purchased an American Hallicrafters S-27 amateur radio receiver from a shop in Lisle Street, London. The...
receivers by manufacturers RCA, General Electric, Philco, Raytheon, Hallicrafters, Hoffman, Pacific Mercury and others. "Television in Review: N.B.C....
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term for the process, PLAcir, in its consumer radio advertisements. Hallicrafters released its first "foto-etch" printed circuit product, a clock-radio...
first fully assembled commercial shortwave superheterodyne receiver. Hallicrafters introduced the "Super Skyrider" in 1935, a superheterodyne shortwave...
an employee, Bill Halligan,[citation needed] who went on to form the Hallicrafters company. The term was already in use — and is to this day — by hams...
Kitchen and Great Hall were converted into ‘set rooms’ with banks of Hallicrafters radio receivers lined up on wood-plank tables. The Great Parlour became...
Heathkit, Hammarlund, Drake, Collins, WRL, Swan, Signal/One, Lafayette and Hallicrafters, to make radiotelegraphy (CW), SSB, FM and RTTY two-way contacts. Some...
(Pete) Kreer to envision using CB radio to get help in such emergencies. Hallicrafters Radio sponsored the founding of REACT in April, with Kreer serving as...
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7030+, Drake R8/R8A/R8B, Icom R-75, or Palstar R-30. Various models by Hallicrafters, Hammarlund and even home-made models from Heathkit have been popular...
receivers by manufacturers RCA, General Electric, Philco, Raytheon, Hallicrafters, Hoffman, Pacific Mercury, and others. Two days earlier, Admiral had...
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