[Milsurplus] Special Receiver 92

[Hue Miller]

There was quite a haul when the Japanese hastily abandoned this base. 
Including food supplies.
And the 3 large transmitters, which were subjects of other photographs. IIR, 
those can be seen
in a government book on the Guadalcanal campaign.
It kind of puzzles me that this 1932 vintage design ( 32 = 2592 = 1932 A.D. 
or C.E. ) was used in
so many large important base stations. ( That book about the Chichi Jima - 
imprisoned flyers
also has a photo of the same receiver. ) I mean plug - in coils, and 
side-attached antenna
tuner, and old series tubes. I suppose it "worked well enough", and maybe 
there were not
so many of the newer receivers, I mean the Japanese HRO, Chi-ichi.   ( I was 
just last night
reading an online article about the "Japanese HRO, with an actual HRO type 
dial, but I
maintain an HRO dial does not an HRO make. I think that receiver examined by 
National
Co. after the war was instead an extremely limited production or prototype. 
The actual
Japanese HRO used plug in coils, as the original, but has a dial mechanism 
more like
the BC-221 readout.
-Hue Miller