[ARC5] Scott receiver

[Christopher Bowne]

I have had my SLRM since my grandfather gave it to me in 1964 when I was 13 and just getting interested in radio. It had belonged to his late  bachelor brother who lived with my grandparents.  He had owned a big Scott console before the war and wanted something new in the fall of 1945 just after the war ended.  Scott's NYC sales room apparently was selling of a lot of new surplus SLRMs then, and a salesman convinced my great-uncle that to buy one for $250.  He apparently was never all that happy with it as it was obviously a much different set than his old Philharmonic.  It ended up becoming my first real short wave receiver and along with my original DX-40, was my first Novice station 50 plus years ago.  I have using it a lot this year with a replacement DX-40 and VF-1 as a 50th anniversary on-the-air station. Over the years I have also acquired an RCH and an RBO.  I have so far had only a couple of the bathtub caps go bad, one in the SLRM and one in the RCH.  When they fail they will take out any screen dropping resistors upstream of them. The RBO played beautifully the first time I powered it up after it was a shelf queen for many years after it followed me home from a Hosstraders ham fest, only had a failed open interstage coupling cap in the audio that had to be replaced..  The oil filled b plus caps in those sets are all original except one that exploded in the SLRM once when I got the AC hot and common wiring crossed up.  It let go with enough force that it put a big bulge in the top of the set's cabinet!  The RCH is one of my favorite CW receivers, in contrast to the SLRM it has very robust BFO injection and can handle very high signal level on CW and SSB.

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> On Nov 2, 2017, at 20:46, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> I recently acquired an RCH also.  Waiting to find time to deal with all
> the leaky caps.
>