[Milsurplus] RAK/RAL usage

[W7QHO@aol.com]

Used on submarines as mentioned by other respondents.   The Cassin Young, a 
WW2 destroyer moored up in Boston also has a RAK/RAL setup retained along side 
later SRR and SRT equipment installed before the ship was decommissioned.

These old boxes work surprisingly well.   Beautifully built with dicast 
shield housings, precision variable caps, ceramic coil forms, etc.   I have an RAL 
(300 Kc to 22 Mc) which performs very well on CW, AM and SSB. Very sensitive 
and stable.   This is not the simple two tube "blooper" with which many of us   
started out.   One has a feeling of being very close to nature when operating 
this set, though.    No AGC so one has to "operate" the set continuously and 
deal manually with all the vagaries of propagation.   Only real shortcoming 
I've encountered is the tendency of the regenerative detector to be captured by 
very strong signals as much as 10 - 15 Kc off the tuned frequency.   When a 
couple of the big guns here in the LA area come on anywhere in the 75M AM window 
I hear nobody else.

Dennis D. W7QHO
Glendale, CA



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