[Boatanchors] Harvey Wells (?) Oddity on the Bay

[manualman at juno.com]

I also suspect it is the Harvey Wells RG-9A general coverage receiver. At
least on this one, it's clearly indicated that the RCA model number is
MI-90237. Whether the internally shown speaker was "standard" is
questionable, since the speaker wires are actually plugged into the
receiver's back mounted speaker jack.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:02:57 -0500 Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net>
writes:
> On 4/6/2011 7:18 AM, D C *Mac* Macdonald wrote:
> > How well did they work?
> Assuming it's the R-9(A) circuit, I think they work pretty well for 
> what 
> the receiver is.  I like using mine with the T-90 and matching power 
> 
> supply, tuner, etc as it makes a nice looking station.  But I can 
> see 
> why the Elmacs and Gonsets were more well-received as a factory-made 
> 
> mobile setup as the H-W is much larger.    H-W made a version called 
> the 
> RG-9A that substituted general coverage for the ham bands, and I 
> suspect 
> this is an RCA-badged version of that.   But as far as I know, none 
> of 
> the H-W models had the internal speaker.
> 
> If you dig thru old QSTs from the late 50's you'll find that the 
> R-9A 
> was cleared-out at a price not much more than half the original $150 
> 
> selling price - I'd think it would have been a great  bargain at 
> that 
> price but you still don't see them very often.
> 
> 73, Bob W9RAN