[Milsurplus] HRO RAS receiver

[Bob Wilder]

Thanks for the link to CFH....Remember it well as I used to talk to them several times
a day while aboard the M/V Arctic Sealer, VQCB in Greenland waters on the final survey
for the Eastern extension of the DEW Line.  Most of our traffic came thru CFH as our
headquarters was in St Johns, Newfoundland.  They always had a better signal than NSS
in Washington.

Bob Wilder, AF2HD
ex W2ZRX/MM, KG1BW





At 09:26 AM 12/3/2003 -0500, Ray Fantini wrote:

>Did a quick check on the RAS data plates last night, the oldest is the RAS-1 with a contract # NOS-70176 date 7 Dec 39, the RAS-4 stuff is contract # NX-455 30 April 42 and the RAS-5 stuff is contract # NXRS-20976 dated 7 Jan 43
>Do not think their is any difference between any of the RAS series radios, or at least any I have seen. did try the noise limiter kit and it dropped right into the location of the 6F8 tube and worked fine, although the receiver appears to be a little more prone to overload on strong signals. will post a copy of this on the millist to see if anyone their can shed any light on weather their is any different between HRO RAS series. 
>Second question, about half the RAS series radios I have seen are missing their data plates. I always thought this was because the Hams who bought them originally after the war thought they would look better without the plates so they striped them off, but then when looking at the Albro Lake web page  http://webhome.idirect.com/~jproc/rrp/albro_lake.html 
> I see that all the RAS receivers have no data plates, where all the ones produced for overseas shipment not provided with plates? and ones making their way back from Canada never had plates to begin with?
>Ray Fantini KA3EKH
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