[Milsurplus] USCG R-103

[George Babits]

I think the Coast Guard may have been the first US military service, but it 
wasn't called that at the time.  Can't remember the original name but the 
ships were called "Revenue Cutters" and their job was to intercept smugglers 
and collect import duties.    Having said that, one of the things we were 
taught at Parris Island in Marine Corps boot camp (March-June 1963) was that 
the Marines were the first official US military service.  Maybe the Marines 
guarded the rum locker on the revenue cutters!!

73,
George
W7HDL


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To: <Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2017 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] USCG R-103


AFAIK, the Coast Guard IS military. It is certainly a much older 
organization then the Air Force! <grin>
Jim

      From: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
 To: Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com>; "Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net" 
<Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
 Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2017 1:52 PM
 Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] USCG R-103

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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

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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