[Boatanchors] Military Transmitter Question

[Kenneth Grimm]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Carl <km1h at jeremy.mv.com> wrote:

> The only good place for the SRR series was over the side! As a Navy ET Ive
> never seen a more unreliable POJ than RCA's replacement for the RB* series.
> <snip>
> Carl
> KM1H
>
>
I couldn't agree more!  When I was young as well as stupid, I bid on a lot
of the SRR-13s in the govt auction over at Norfolk.  Unfortunately, I won.
I spent countless hours trying to make a few working radios out of a bunch
of POJ radios.  Fortunately, I found enough buyers to take the working ones
from me.  While I didn't make a profit on this "business" venture, I at
least broke even and learned my lesson!

For years, I've had one of those miserable little actuator widgets resting
in my desk drawer.  You know the ones that were clamped on a shaft and had
the little nub on the end that switched the various modules and were made
out of pot metal and which broke when you looked sideways at them.  It was
there to remind me to not do stupid things.  It hasn't worked, but at least
it was trying....sorta like the SRR-13 that it came out of.

73,

Ken - K4XL