[Milsurplus] Where was RAL & RAK used?

[David Stinson]

The SRR series receivers have a big, glaring design and
material flaw.  The band switching is done with a rack
that moves back and forth, which engages levers
which move a bunch of right-angle shafts that go to
the switched stages.  The levers are "squeeze tightened"
on the end of the shafts by putting the shafts within a split
section of the lever and using a screw to tighten the split
section down on the shaft.  When the rack goes back
and forth, the levers rotate the band switch shafts
at right angles to the rack.
That would be OK, except that they cheaped-out on the
materials for the levers.  They're made of some cheap
pot metal and one end of the split section fractures,
leaving that shaft stationary while the others rotate.

Next problem was the soldered-in tubes in the modular
sections.  I guess you're supposed to replace
the entire dud section with a spare, but that would make
for a pretty expensive spares set.

I gave mine away.  I got tired of jury-rigging
the broken bandswitch levers.

73 Dave S.