{"id":12864,"date":"2015-03-29T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T17:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12864"},"modified":"2015-03-29T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T17:21:55","slug":"paul-litwinovich-sheds-light-on-the-royalty-of-radios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/paul-litwinovich-sheds-light-on-the-royalty-of-radios\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Litwinovich sheds light on the “Royalty of Radios”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Zenith<\/a>

Zenith Model 7G605, the first in the line of Trans-Oceanic radios.
Credit P. Litwinovich collection via WSHU<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Paul, who points out this excellent article about the Zenith Transoceanic<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Paul Litwinovich of WSHU.\u00a0 Litwinovich’s article covers a brief history\u00a0of the Zenith Transoceanic series including photos from his amazing collection (check out his model 7G605 above).<\/p>\n

Here’s a short clip from his full article:<\/p>\n

“The first version of Zenith Trans-Oceanic line of portable shortwave radios, the 7G605, [above]\u00a0was released less than two months before the Pearl Harbor attack. It bore the sailboat image, and continued to be known as the “Clipper.” It sold for $75, and was an instant success. It was just the beginning, though, of the series’ long and colorful history. Zenith planned to heavily promote the radio for the coming holiday season. Then, the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor came. Most manufacturers halted production of consumer goods for the war effort. Zenith had other plans for their new radio, though. They changed the image on the grill from that of a sailboat to the likeness of the B-17 bomber. The change was implemented in such a hurry, that collectors have reported finding the bomber grill inserted over the top of the sailboat grill.”<\/p>\n

Click here to read the full article at WSHU…<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By the way,\u00a0we’ve mentioned Paul before here on the SWLing Post<\/em><\/a>–I would encourage you to bookmark his excellent article thread on WSHU’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Paul, who points out this excellent article about the Zenith Transoceanic\u00a0by\u00a0Paul Litwinovich of WSHU.\u00a0 Litwinovich’s article covers a brief history\u00a0of the Zenith Transoceanic series including photos from his amazing collection (check out his model 7G605 above). Here’s a short clip from his full article: “The first version of Zenith […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3,305,288,26],"tags":[3232,3234,2899,3134,3747],"class_list":["post-12864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-radios","tag-paul-litwinovich","tag-wshu","tag-zenith","tag-zenith-transoceanic","tag-zenith-transoceanic-7g605"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3lu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17852,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/paul-litwinovich-on-the-life-decline-and-possible-rebirth-of-am\/","url_meta":{"origin":12864,"position":0},"title":"Paul Litwinovich on “The Life, Decline and Possible Rebirth of AM”","author":"Thomas","date":"March 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to the SWLing Post reader who noted this latest post by Paul Litwinovich at WSHU (Paul is frequently referenced here on the Post). 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