[Milsurplus] Mystery Receivers AN/SRR-15, AN/SRR-16

[Bruce Gentry]

I would not be surprised if some of the money RCA got for Navy radio 
development was diverted to their work on color tv, they did not begin 
to make a  profit on the color sets until the early 1960's.  I wonder if 
anyone besides Collins took SSB seriously, the conversion of the RCA 
ARC-21 to the ARC-65 was really awful compared to the Collins ARC-58.  I 
know many people hated the SRR-11/12/13, I would probably agree with 
them if I had to work on them daily, but I am looking for them if anyone 
has one to sell. 

  Bruce Gentry


Ray Fantini wrote:
> The Navy must have pissed away ungodly amounts of money trying to develop a replacement for the R-390, the whole SRR-11/13 line were dogs subject to drift and service issues like the cast crank levers. Would speculate that the SRR-15/16 were versions of the 13 with SSB capabilities like a product detector and ability to apply AGC in SSB mode 
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