[Milsurplus] R-100/URR

[Hue Miller]

> & & &... you sed b4 schemat in PA book.  No, just a "adaptation note."

No, not me, i've not seen the P-A manual.

> There is a TM-11-something titled "repair of common US Army receivers"
> that has it, the '312/342, 652, etc.

Wonder if that's "Repair of Army Ground Radio Equipment" ?

> I know the things were 'stacked to the sky' @ the BX on Guam in '47.  
> $5/ea NIB.  Beware, OT folklore.

Ya know what, Marty ? I'd bet money  that instead of offering the GI's a real bargain 
on surplus Uncle Sam would have bulldozers crush them, or have them dumped off
a barge offshore Guam, like they did to bargeloads of new vehicles.

Also, from what i've seen, Uncle Sam apparently in the early years of Surplus ( early
Surplus Era ) wanted unrealistic money for electronic equipment, thru that War Assets
Reallocation outfit ( i think it was so named ). Actually, i think around '47 - '48 was the
turning point to realistic prices, but i still am pretty sure $5 is too low a figure.
 
> > 40,000 built... occupation force people pleasers?  Maybe.  Certainly
>   helped re-launch European radio manufacturing.

Have you seen one? I wonder if the components are US, European, or mixed.
And if you can see evidence of Euro style construction. I don't think the R-100
overall is much like the Europeans would build a radio.

> Man were BC/sw metal govt-like rxs a popular item in '46 & 7.  Just
> got another never-seen example called a Hudson American Clipper @ AWA 
> auction.  Will sit next to a metal Detrola & a Minerva TropicMaster.
> And a R-100.... which web-site & a guy here shows civvy-built as an Espey.
> 
>   Marty

I like that Navy metal one with the pushbuttons for selecting which S-P-R-E-A-D
Shortwave Band ( that's the way the ads say it ) it plays. Dunno the type because
the one i debated getting, had the nameplate removed (that's why i did not get it. )

BTW, i think even Jefferson-Travis had a radio in the metal BC/SW category.
-Hue Miller