[Milsurplus] Post-WWII RBC Receiver?

[Normiehall at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/27/2004 12:24:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
arc5 at ix.netcom.com writes:

> There's an RBC receiver, you know where:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5701043296
> 
> It has an orange nomen tag on it.
> I thought these were post-WWII.
> Was there post-WWII production of the RBC?
> 

Hi,

We had RBA, RBB & RBC receivers on battleships and carriers and on lots of 
other Navy ships at least through the Korean War as I was there.  They were all 
built during (some before?) World War II.  I've never seen one that wasn't 
built by RCA but then I didn't see all of them!  They are great, hulking 
boatanchors and were very stable and seldom failed.  I used an RBB for 80 meter RTTY 
around 1970 and It was a set and forget tuning procedure if the sending station 
had a stable crystal or vfo.  

73,

Norm Hall, W6JOD