Fifty years ago this month, the January 1970 issue of Popular Electronics carried this Hallicrafters ad for the company’s solid state Model S-120A Star Quest receiver, which covered the broadcast band through 30 MHz.

An earlier AC-DC tube version, the S-120 had been sold a few years earlier, but this one was solid state, and could run off household current or 12 volts.  The ad identifies Hallicrafters as a subsidiary of Northrop Corporation, and it’s likely this was one of the last pieces of radio gear sold under the Hallicrafters name.

My guess from the picture is that dad bought the receiver for his son for Christmas, but it doesn’t look like Junior is getting a chance to use it, as dad discovered the fun of SWLing.  But Junior could have made the best of the situation by putting together the simple three transistor regenerative receiver shown elsewhere in the magazine.