[ARC5] [Milsurplus] RBA-1 It's alive!

[CARL HUETHER]

On one USN ship, a fleet oiler, I served on the RBA along with RBB and RBC were the main ship radios and a 1934 designed RCA RAK-7 and RAL-7 were in Emergency Radio along with another RBB and RBC and TCS-13. The ship was built in 1945 and these were all the original gear. The RBA never failed so other than basic PM I never even got inside.. At home I use a RAK, RAL, RBB, and RBC at times.

On the next ship I was introduced to the next generation SRR-11, 12, and 13 and still hate them to this day. Very failure prone until RCA worked out the bugs but by that time the Collins URC-32 was taking over ship comms with SSB while the SRR-13 was used just on crypto circuits....a spare was on standby!

Carl




> On December 26, 2019 at 9:00 AM Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     I did about 2 ½ hours of NDB DXing with the RBA-1 on Christmas Eve and logged just over 50 stations.    Best DX was Dorado NDB in San Juan PR on 391 KHz.
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>     Most stuff N/NE and SW along the east coast.    Nothing heard from the west or Midwest… or even OH……   That was unexpected.     I plan on doing some more “NDB DXing” with the RBA-1 over the winter
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>     73 Mark K3MSB
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>     On Wed, Dec 25, 2019, 11:51 AM Bry Carling < af4k at hotmail.com mailto:af4k at hotmail.com > wrote:
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>         > >         I used to love DXing the NDBs on my ICF2010... I will have to see if the PL-880 can hear them this winter.
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> >         Best regards - Bry Carling,  AF4K
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> >             > > > On Dec 24, 2019, at 9:53 PM, Mark K3MSB < mark.k3msb at gmail.com mailto:mark.k3msb at gmail.com > wrote:
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> >             > > >             Logged 28 different NDBs tonight between 0107Z and 0207Z !!   Farthest out were QC/ON to the North,  and LA/FL to the south.    Not too much to the west at all.
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> > >             Afterwards I cross-checked them on the web;  the RBA dial is pretty accurate!   
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> > >             Copied two unknowns..... UZ on 232 KHz and QN on 236 KHz.     There is a UZ listed on 227 KHz and a QN on 233 KHz,  but I'm not convinced they were the ones I heard.
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> > >             This is fun!
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> > >             73 Mark K3MSB
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> > >             On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 9:03 PM arc5 at ix.netcom.com mailto:arc5 at ix.netcom.com < arc5 at ix.netcom.com mailto:arc5 at ix.netcom.com > wrote:
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> > >                 > > > >                 Awesome, Mark.  Thanks for posting that beauty.
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