They also feature a built-in AC power supply for added flexibility. They sport decent-sized ferrite rod antennas, generally around 6 inches plus and of good cross-section. These are well-designed 8 transistor radios with three gang air-variable tuning capacitors (the best kind) and a Tuned RF stage which accounts for their nice performance. Referring to what may be the best representatives of RCA’s transistor era models, the RLG34T and RLZ 133W are relatively sensitive (ranking 4 Stars in The AM Mega Shootout Article), very selective, have nice slide rule dials and a tone control for pleasant audio. Legendary, iconic series like the GE Superadios, Sony’s Super Sensitive and Zenith’s Lunchboxes and Owl Eye series portables have garnered much more attention and been well-documented on-line and in print, but when my buddy brought two transistorized Globe Trotters to me for evaluation, the RZG133E and RLG34T, I found very little information about them and I must say I was surprised at how well they both performed. I’m not sure why these radios have eluded notice by the radio community at large. I would welcome any additional info anyone could provide. It is by no means complete and I can’t guarantee every item is 100% accurate…these are my best guesses from what I was able to piece together and is a work in progress. Here is the information I was able to gather on the Globe Trotter models and their years of manufacture, excluding the many models included in the 1934-1935 Price List below. Many of the big vintage radio manufacturers such as GE, Panasonic, Sony and Zenith to mention just a few have loyal followers with lots of information available online devoted to their models, yet there seem to be no websites devoted to the Globe Trotters, or even RCA Victor radios in general, although so many were made one can find many for sale. Later on, in the tube era and continuing into the transistor models, the name continued to be applied to RCA’s best performing AM portable radios. The Globe Trotter series of radios is also unusual in that it originally ran the gamut of console, table and portable tube and solid-state models with band configurations ranging from AM-only to sophisticated multi-band radios.
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