[Boatanchors] RME-69 Receiver

[Kees & Sandy]

Thanks for the caution on the dial fragility, Todd. What material is the dial made of ? How thick is it ? The RME-69 radios I've seen on the Internet are basically "white" with black lettering. This one has green dial glass and the dial is brown with black lettering. Normally you would say that's just age and sunlight, but this was behind green glass and the coloration looks very uniform. All together, it makes the dial very difficult to read without the pilot lights being on.
73 Kees K5BCQ

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
To: "Kees & Sandy" <windy10605 at juno.com>
Cc: Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] RME-69 Receiver
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:45:57 -0500


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Kees & Sandy <windy10605 at juno.com> wrote:


A picture is always worth 1K words so here are a few of the new acquisition and a little write-up for those interested.
http://www.qsl.net/k5bcq/RME/RME.html

Definitely a cool receiver, though a little numb on the high bands. Nice that you got the speaker with it. I'm still looking for one along with the DB-20 to complete mine. Had one bad in the early 80s that went down the road early on, replaced it a couple years ago with a nice example from an old friend. 

One word of caution: the dial material looks a lot more substantial than it is. It's more like boxboard thickness or less. Looks like it would be easy to damage with an errant finger or the slip of a screwdriver.  

Have fun with it!

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4