[Boatanchors] Military Transmitter Question (SRR series)

[Richard Knoppow]

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From: <w8au at sssnet.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Military Transmitter Question 
(SRR series)


> At 11:23 AM 11/23/2010, Kenneth Grimm wrote:
>>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.
>> > 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!
>>Ken - K4XL
>>______________________________________________________________
>
> Interesting thread.  Going through ET"A" school at Great 
> Lakes
> in 1958, I was taught the SRR series and it's same vintage 
> xmtrs
> SRT 14/15/16.
>
> Being a young ham, I was really impressed with the 
> projection display
> and was also an introduction into modular design and 
> pencil tubes.
> These receivers worked fine in the school room..... BUT..
>
> After assignment to my first ship (a DDR) I noticed the 
> SRTs but
> NO SRRs!  Still had the RBA/B/C setup.  Was curious but 
> just accepted
> it.  In the two years on that first ship I had to repair 
> only ONE RBC!
> I did hear of other DD's having some SRR sets.
>
> I didn't find out until a couple decades later that the 
> Navy must
> have realized these were bench queens and held off the 
> replacement
> of the RBA/B/C's until the R-390 models and others came 
> out.
>
> I have an SRT-14 in the shack. I swore I would not pick 
> one up since
> I continuously baby-sat those 76 tube synthesizer exciters 
> with an OS-8
> tied to them for lissajous pattern checks, but nostalgia 
> got the best
> of me.  SRRs appear now and then on the auction site, but 
> I resist
> the temptation while watching someone else get the 
> potential grief.
>
> Perry  w8au
>
     I also find this thread interesting, many years ago I 
saw a bunch of SRR-13's at a surplus place I frequented at 
the time and developed a lust for one; I thought they were 
sexy looking. I am now relieved that I could not afford one. 
It sounds like they were big time dogs.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com