[Elecraft] Really old receivers

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

Are you ever dating yourself  :>)    Did the Brits ever get those early
National military receivers to use, or did only the Yanks have them?

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy <lx2ao at pt.lu>wrote:

> I spent many hours under the hot African sun in Natal South Africa during
> the 1940s using the "19", which was the beast which those of us in the
> signals group of my school's cadet corp had to use.  The "19s" which we had
> included the VHF "B", and during one exercise a school friend and I
> discovered that we could maintain contact using the VHF "B" over distances
> of a couple of miles or more,depending upon the terrain.  I suspect that
> this "discovery" might have caused some concern, because the "B" was
> designed for secure comms between tanks no more than 800 yards apart -
> according to our Instructor.  Anyway my friend and I were asked a lot of
> questions :-)
>
> 73,
> Geoff
> LX2AO
>
>
>
> On June 26, 2012 at 7:57 PM, ERIC MANNING wrote:
>
>
> > Does anyone else remember or have a Wireless Set Nr. 19?
> >
> > Built during WW2 for the Canadian Army Armoured Corps and our Soviet
> > Allies [it had Russian and English markings],
> > it was a transceiver, weighed a lot, and I cut my teeth on one. Covered
> > ALL ham bands [between 2 and 8 Mc/s].
> > Most repairs could be made by dropping it on a hard surface.
> >
> > [Other than that, I don't have a good thing to say about the old beast.
> > It reached truly new lows in performance, even for the 1940s.]
> >
> > Eric
> > VA7DZ
>
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