[Milsurplus] USCG R-103

[Ray Fantini]

I have a RCA R-104 that I picked up in Dayton last year for $100 and it's truly a thing of beauty to look at. It's a level of craftsmanship and quality that would have only been possible from that period of time when RCA was on top of the world and the term "Value Engineering" had not been introduced. I did some clean up of the radio and did power it up and play around with it for a while and it is a good late thirties design with what you would consider about the same level of performance of any high end receiver at that time. Don't know for cretin but although the receiver is AM and CW suspect that the transmitter may be CW only. The receiver also has previsions for a remote mechanical tuning control and two preset crystal channels that use what appears to me to be the same huge crystal holder as the Collins TCS family of radios. Would love to have the complete set but that's a lot of money for something that's 2.0 to 4.5 MHz only. Have given some thought to cudgeling something together to use on the 3.885 Net at Dayton with that as a receiver, the power connector on the back of the radio is configured for running the filament string from six or twelve volts depending on how you wire it and the two hundred or so volts for the plates is no big deal, the biggest issue is I don't ever think they were used in a military role but maybe can stretch to say that when the Coast Guard was activated to military escort duty that would have been the radio on smaller escort vessels?

Ray F/KA3EKH


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From: Milsurplus <milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2017 10:50 PM
To: Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Milsurplus] USCG R-103

We were discussing the Coast Guard receiver R-103 not so long ago.
Here's a whole console, with transmitter and AC ( ? ) supply in it. Looks like it might be a fun rig to own, if you can stand the size + weight,
but his price is a "museum price", and no museum is going to buy it.
-Hue

http://www.ebay.com/itm/252777909298?rmvSB=true

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