[Milsurplus] USCG R-103

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Jim,

The Coast Guard is not part of the department of defense. But Coast 
Guard assets can be assigned to the Navy in time of need. I was in the 
Navy in the 60s and we had small coast guard vessels in the waters 
around Viet Nam when I was serving in the 'brown water navy' there. 
Later I was assigned to a destroyer-escort (blue water service) and have 
more recently found photos of that ship transferring fuel to a Coast 
Guard Vessel at sea in Asian waters. They were NOT protecting our coast!

Coast Guard is presently part of Homeland Security.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 02/26/2017 03:56 PM, antqradio at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> AFAIK, the Coast Guard IS military.  It is certainly a much older 
> organization then the Air Force! <grin>
>
> Jim
>
>
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> *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
>
> 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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