[Boatanchors] Military Transmitter Question (SRR series)

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Perry,

I guess that I lucked out, too.  My first ship (USS Bushnell, briefly) was 
too old and my second ship (USS Valley Forge) too new to get the SRR's (or 
the SRT's for that matter).  I spent about a year babysitting WRT-1's and 
WRT-2's in about the same way as you did with the SRT-14.  But I've managed to 
resist any temptation to own either one!  And likewise the SRR's, although I 
never had to actually work on one.

In a message dated 11/23/2010 4:14:47 PM Central Standard Time, 
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com writes: 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <w8au at sssnet.com>
> To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> 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.
> 
> 
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com 
> 
> 

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