1981 Montgomery Wards Portable Color TV

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

Which website did you find that info at? Because I went to the FCC's Website and checked that code out and nothing came back results wise. It said that there wasn't a company registered to that number.

The relevant part of the code for determining the manufacturer is the first 3 (or sometimes 5) characters. If you go to the FCC search page that I provided a link to in post 8 and enter just the A7R, it will return about 440 Orion products and none from any other manufacturer. It will not show products earlier than about 1982 or so... earlier data apparently is not on line. I have encountered the same limit whie searching the FCC site for information on broadcast stations, as well. There is little doubt that A7R is Orion and exclusively so. Your set is just too old to show up on line.

The other site I used was "fccid.io", again the specific model was not found, but the A7R part by itself returned Orion as the result.

Hope this helps,
jr

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

The relevant part of the code for determining the manufacturer is the first 3 (or sometimes 5) characters. If you go to the FCC search page that I provided a link to in post 8 and enter just the A7R, it will return about 440 Orion products and none from any other manufacturer. It will not show products earlier than about 1982 or so... earlier data apparently is not on line. I have encountered the same limit whie searching the FCC site for information on broadcast stations, as well. There is little doubt that A7R is Orion and exclusively so. Your set is just too old to show up on line.

The other site I used was "fccid.io", again the specific model was not found, but the A7R part by itself returned Orion as the result.

Hope this helps,
jr

OK, well I realize this set is from 1981 which is probably a little late for Montgomery Wards items as far as collectability goes but do you think that there is any collectors value to this TV? I mean obviously since Montgomery Wards is no longer in business.