[ARC5] Purpose For Scott Receivers

[Christopher Bowne]

I just removed my  Scott SLRM nameplate and sure enough there were an extra set of tapped holes behind it.  On some Navy receivers there were two  nameplates, a large one and a narrow one below it, usually that one was only secured by two screws.  The SLRM nameplate was sized to use the upper and lower pair of screw holes in the front panel, and hid another pair of screw holes behind it.

Apparently there are a lot of SLRMs out there but I have never seen one badged as an REE.  Mine is SLRM S/N 1841 and appears to have been built in 1945.  It was sold to my great uncle from the Scott Showroom NYC in September or October 1945, not long after the end of the war.  My RBO with the Gh

The SLR-12B was  the merchant marine version of the Navy RBO entertainment receiver.

The SLRF used in the MacKay merchant ship radio suites was the merchant marine version of the RCH.

I have somewhat of a family connection to those MacKay suites, one of my grandfathers gave me a Scott merchant marine receiver, and my other grandfather worked for Federal Radio in Newark, NJ during the war where the 167B transmitter was produced.

The Navy was quite serious about only allowing low radiation receivers on board ships.  Some of the morale receivers, such as the REP, made by Crosley, bore large warning tags indicating they were not to be used aboard ships.  



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> On Mar 10, 2019, at 19:13, Christopher Bowne <aj1g at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> The radios installed on merchant ships during the war were labeled with the SLR model numbers from the get-go, the were not simply relabeled post war as a marketing ploy.  Scott cranked out large numbers of the SLRs for the Mackay MF and HF radio suites installed on merchant ships such as the Liberty and Victory ships where the were paired up with the Federal 167B CW/MCW transmitters.
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> Scott Indeed did sell off a lot of their surplus war production stock after VE Day.  My SLRM was bought by my great uncle from their Manhattan NYC showroom for 250 dollars, they certainly weren’t giving them away at that price!  The RBO I have was also likely sold off after the war.  It appears to have been sold minus its Navy identification tags on the front panel removed, the screw holes are still there, a a small badge with the single word “ Scott”was affixed in place of the Navy nameplate.  The little Scott tag is kind of cheesy looking, I have wondered if a third party bought up a bunch of Navy RBOs and “de-miled” and also attempted to capitalize on the manufacturer’s name.  My SLRM bought from E. H. Scott has the standard civilian nameplate that Scott used on the SLR series of receivers, the nameplate is the same size as the Navy nameplate, they would’ve affixed an REE nameplate on a Navy version.
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>> On Mar 10, 2019, at 18:31, CARL HUETHER <k1uhy at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> I believe the answer Ken is that the RCH was the model installed on USN ships and the SLR was the relabeled version for civilian use.That was done so they didnt become surplus giveaways and were sold as new radios for a normal profit
>> The 1945 built tanker I was on had 4 RCH's: crews mess, chiefs mess, wardroom, and captains cabin. A RAO-7 was in Radio Central for general listening, mostly on AM. Primary radios were RBA, RBB, and RBC in Radio Central. Back in Emergency Radio there were single RAK, RAL, RBB, RBC, and a TCS-13. Once hams were allowed to operate /MM I had free run of the TCS mostly on 40 CW and a bit later the new URC-32 on SSB, for phone patches and general hamming as permitted.
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>> Carl
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>>> On March 8, 2019 at 9:47 PM "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 8 Mar 2019 at 20:15, David Stinson wrote:
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>>>>   Why RCH?
>>> 
>>> I've always wondered about that too. Funny thing is that Scott's model number for the 
>>> identical receiver is SLR-F:Super Low Radiation model F.
>>> 
>>>>   Maybe a congressman´s district needed a contract.
>>> 
>>> Wouldn't doubt it.
>>> 
>>> Ken
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