Nova-Tech

Nova-Tech Incorporated

1721 Sepulveda Boulevard, Manhattan Beach, California.

Manufactured by Nova-Tech (Japan) Inc

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aviation Advertiser Magazine April 1958
The Nova-Tech Story

It appears that Nova-Tech started out by converting radios produced by Granco for VHF airband use. This started Nova-Techs ‘Air-O-Ear’ range

Model 730A

This is based on the Granco 730A

TR-102

TR-102 (Has a switch on the left side Phones socket)

TR-102A (A model has 2000 ohms Phones sockets)

Flying Magazine July 1957 Advert

Flying Magazine January 1958

Nova Star II

I have no further details on this, but it looks similar to the TR-102

Nova Star II

710-WN / 710-YN

710-WN covered 108 – 130mhz and the 710-YN covered 118 – 140mhz

Air-O-Ear 710-WN (Authors Collection)

Flying Magazine April 1957 Advert

According to radiomuseum.org the 710 was a converted Granco Model FM 610U www.radiomuseum.org/r/novatech_air_o_ear_vhf_receiver_710_wn.html

711-WN

711-WN (Date 1963) 3 bander – LF / AM / VHF

1959 Advert

711-WN Different Case

711-WN LF / AM / HF / VHF (Authors Collection)

711-WN Flying Magazine August 1964 – says a 3 bander without shortwave was also available

Flying Magazine November 1960 Advert

Flying Magazine December 1961 Advert

Air Pictorial Sep 1963 – Air-O-Ear 4 Band Model 711-WN

Aviator II

Aviator II (Authors Collection)

Flight International 24 March 1966

Pilot II

US version of the Aviator II

Pilot II (Authors Collection)

Flying Magazine September 1964 Advert

1966 Advert – Says a 3 band and 4 band was available

This is a brochure for the Pilot Pal

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