"Last gasp" GE tube/transistor hybrid clock radio

[electroking]

Originally Posted by Chad Hauris

I have several of these radios...the FM RF, mixer and oscillator stages are transistorized and on a separate little circuit board which mounts on top of the main one. The AM tuner is a conventional 12BE6 tube and the rest of the circuit is just a conventional tube radio, 2 IF stages and solid state diodes for the FM ratio detector.

I see. So 'solid state tuning' does not mean that they are dispensing with
the mechanical variable capacitor. A bit like early automotive electronic
ignition setups that were still using the breaker points, if I understand
correctly.