[Milsurplus] thoughts on the SRR family of radios

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

They were actually intended to replace the WW-II vintage RBA, RBB and RBC 
in new construction and upgrades during major overhauls.  They were in turn 
soon superceded by the R-390A/URR which remained in front-line service into 
the 1970's.  The only ships that actually carried them seem to have been new 
construction between about 1952 and 1956.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 05/09/2016 08:25:53 AM Central Daylight Time, 
RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu writes: 
> Additional thought on the SRR-13 family of radios, just to demonstrate 
> that there are at least three people who find them interesting! Over the 
> years I have owned three or four examples and have found them to be fun little 
> radios. Have been told that they were intended to replace the R-390 in 
> fleet operations but due to their lack of stability and the unfortunate period 
> of time that they were designed between the end of the vacuum tube era and 
> the beginning of the solid state era they are little more than a footnote 
> in history.
> 
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