[Hallicrafters] Real radio men don't need no silly instructions

[Mike Everette]

Ads for the RME-45 began appearing in CQ Magazine in January 1945 (available on priority for now").  RME got the jump even on Bill Halligan as far as advertising "post war receivers."  In truth the 45 is very similar, but not quite identical to the pre-was RME-43.

I have a 45 which is a work in progress.  I have used it enough to know it's not "terrible" since it was working when I got it; but as-was, it's hardly the best receiver I've ever used.  So far anyway.... 

There was a series of postings on I believe the Boatanchors forum some years back by Henry Van Cleef, describing how to somewhat re-engineer the receiver and actually improve it quite a bit (as he claimed anyway).

I worked on a 45 a long, long time ago for a newbie who'd found it at a fest.  It actually did an acceptable hob, and the tuning was real smooth with the 2-speed dial (it was a B model).  The dial and panel layout on the 45 are very similar to a Johnson Ranger; and if you didn't know better you might think it's a "matching" receiver (it's not)... in fact I was tempted to paint my 45's panel and cabinet to match the Ranger, just to confound the clueless.

73

Mike
W4DSE


--- On Tue, 11/8/11, Carl <km1h at jeremy.mv.com> wrote:

> From: Carl <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Real radio men don't need no silly instructions
> To: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net>, hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 2:36 PM
> My RME-45 has a final inspection sign
> off of 11/5/45 making it one of the 
> earliest postwar radios. The schematic and even some
> component locations are 
> in their own world compared to later production. And talk
> about a lot of 
> wasted space to make it look bigger! What a fraud.
> 
> It looks nice on display with the matching speaker plus
> DB-22A and VHF-152A 
> but is typical RME junk as far as using. The DB-22A can
> actually be turned 
> into something useful.
> 
> Carl
> KM1H
> .
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net>
> To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 11:03 AM
> Subject: [Hallicrafters] Real radio men don't need no silly
> instructions
> 
> 
> > ...and that RME-45 I had did NOT match the schematic
> AT ALL; well, the IF
> > cans did.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
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