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Originally Posted by G6Tanuki
One trick they sometimes pulled was to use transistors-strapped-as-diodes for things like the detector/AGC and to control bias on the output-stages. This was a profitable way for them to use up 'under-spec' transistors - it also let them boast "TEN TRASNISTOR" on the front.
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Our own Fidelity Radio weren't above pulling this one, in their "12 transistor" Fairline portable:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/fidelity_fairline.html
Hong Kong manufacturers took it to a different level, though. Numerous 15 transistor MW pocket sets were marketed, but for some reason they seem scarce in the UK and to have been far more popular in the USA. I can't remember meeting with an account of how the transistors were all used, if indeed they were all used at all - why not just glue a few total duds to the circuit board?
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/unknow...ransistor.html
Paul