1957 Voxson 725 Zephyr
Small portable, thermoplastic cabinet
6 1/2 x 4 1/8 x 1 7/8 inches / 165 x 105 x 47.6 mm
2-band MW/LW, six transistors (RCA, 3x 2N109, 2x 2N139, 2N140)
Vernier tuning, six 1.5-volt cells
Manufactured by Voxson F.A.R.E.T., Rome
The first Voxon transistor radio, and one of the earliest Italian transistor radios, but it wasn't the first. And the same goes for two other early Italian transistor radios, the Radialba Model 2010 by Radio Allocchio Bacchini (though this was in fact the first Italian pocket radio), and CEI's Beta/Selonyx Hermann. From correspondence I've received from Italian radio collectors, the Allocchio Bacchini
2001 is now considered the prime candidate, but according to Aldo Andreani, "this could be the real first Italian transistor radio, but so far no one knows if it ever entered the market".
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