[ARC5] SCR-522: Rethinking The Old Gal

[David Stinson]

About your only readily (relatively speaking) available WWII-era
VHF receiver is going to be the R-28, as has been mentioned.
There's supposed to be a simple mod to make it tunable.
I'm sure someone here knows it.
Though it's another "plain girl at the dance," I've always liked the
BC-639.  It, like so much military surplus, got a bad rap about being
"deaf" and "broad," neither of which is true within the long years
of valued service it gave the forces.  It's well suited to casual listening
to your local Unicom.    With proper refurbishing and careful alignment,
it will deliver good audio at under 2 microVolts input.
Fair Radio has them and you sometimes see them on Ebay,
but they're pricey.  I haven't seen one at a hamfest in decades.
Probably drowned in basements and holding doors open.
73 Dave AB5S

On 4/26/2020 3:19 PM, hwhall at compuserve.com wrote:
> Is there a recommended WWII period set to look for, for the same 
> monitoring purpose?
>
> Wayne
> WB4OGM


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