[Milsurplus] [MRCA] G and G Radio Sales NYC
Peter Gottlieb
kb2vtl at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 00:11:20 EDT 2017
Their site shows a lot of parts and expensive vacuum tubes. Do they have and
radios or other equipment?
Peter
kb2vtl
On 9/6/2017 2:22 PM, Michael Clarson wrote:
> Just a note -- Leeds Radio is still around. I was at their last location a few
> years ago (in Williamsburg) and I can't believe he moved everything to the
> Bronx!. Looks like he is out of MPF-102s! The person running things used to
> work at Leeds for the original owner. --Mike, WV2ZOW
>
> http://www.leedsradio.com/
>
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:00 PM, MICHAEL ST ANGELO <mstangelo at comcast.net
> <mailto:mstangelo at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
> Thanks to all for the G and G radio stories. I fondly remember visiting
> them every time I took a pilgrimage into NYC to buy electronics.
>
>
> My first visit was in the late 1960's. I wanted to experiment with VHF/UHF
> radio and the BC-645 seemed like a good place to start.
>
>
> I saw the set on G and G and two things turned me off. First - I was on a
> tight budget. being in high school so I would also have to buy the
> accessory cables. Second - seeing it in person I realized it was quite dated.
>
>
> At that time QST had a cover article abut using the Motorola MPF-102 fets
> in VHF converters. Another store that I frequented on my pilgrimage, Leeds
> Radio, had MPF-102 fets on sale for fifty cents so I picked up a couple
> and went down the semiconductor route.
>
> The fet leads were gold plated; I still have them.
>
>
> My last G and G visit was in the early 1980's. I guess it was on Warren
> Street and the Lafayette Radio was replaced by a huge store selling all
> types of magnetic tapes. I went to the second floor and meet a Ham from
> Brooklyn who worked there. We started chatting and he told me he installed
> the transmitters on Abe Nathan's Voice of Peace ship; two Collins 25,000
> watt transmitters with a Combinier. Could that have been Leon Chall?
>
>
> Keep the stories coming.
>
>
> 73 Mike N2MS
>
>
>> On September 3, 2017 at 6:55 PM comcast <kg2bz at comcast.net
>> <mailto:kg2bz at comcast.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Hue and folks
>> My dad worked part time at Gand G radio in the 70s . Sometimes I
>> accompanied him and my brother on a Saturday. the owner, Murray Baum,
>> grew up in England as a boy then came over to the US and was a
>> telegrapher. He was in his 70s at the time. He knew alot of people in the
>> electronics business including the owners of Lafayette radio. He never
>> really adapted to the surplus markets like Bill Slep (huh!), Columbia
>> Electronics or Space Electronics. He preferred to live in his WW2 inventory.
>>
>> My dad helped move inventory between Leonard st warehouse and Warren st
>> store/office/headquarters. first floor was Lafayette radio. Second floor
>> was his offices and showroom in one room on the second floor there was a
>> display of the most everything he sold. third-floor was the shipping and
>> receiving department where my dad did most of his work. On a Saturday me
>> and my brother had our jobs such as testing and polishing tubes for
>> repackaging
>> 4th floor was more storage and 5th floor was more tubes
>>
>> G and G had hundreds of new RAY receivers and BC – 645s. I think I sold
>> my last one at Gilbert a few years ago to bernie bought it
>> not sure what the RAY did. the story with the 645s was they were never
>> fielded in ww2 due to incompatibility with existing IFF sets
>>
>> I believe he bought the bc312 diversity sets - there is one on qth.com
>> <http://qth.com> now - from another surplus guy. He had a part time ham
>> tech, Leon Chall, from Brooklyn , working on them.
>> Murray wanted to pay Leon on the books, he said no way and threatened to
>> quit. Murray gave him cash for his services
>>
>> When he was running out of stock he carried Fair radio items in his
>> catalog but they would always be shipped from Fair radio and Murray would
>> get a commission
>>
>> I have been working on a story about our G and G adventures on and off .
>> When I finish I will share with everyone
>>
>> Jeff
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Sep 1, 2017, at 8:27 PM, comcast <kg2bz at comcast.net
>> <mailto:kg2bz at comcast.net>> wrote:
>>
>>> ray and folks .
>>>
>>> i can remember as a kid working with my dad at g and g radio in new york
>>> city. he had hundreds of brand new crated bc223s. my dad got 2, one was
>>> ruined from hurricane sandy, the other my mom found when cleaning out
>>> the attic last year. the other half of the scr245, the bc312, my dad got
>>> working for me when i was 12 or 13. with a 15 ft piece of wire in the
>>> basement I would listen to the top end of the BCB, 160m was dead due to
>>> loran, but i listened to uscg on 2670 and 75m am - wa1hyellr etc
>>>
>>> i also found the dynamotor too!
>>>
>>> the scr245 may have been in use in north africa in m3 lee and m4
>>> shermans but by the time of sicily the scr508 was firmly in use
>>>
>>> as to the scr506, that was used in the armored battalion commanders and
>>> xo's tanks for the regimental command net. also in those tanks was the
>>> 508. it was also used in m8 and m20 armored cars for the recon units.
>>> tank companies commanders and xos had the 508 which had 2 bc603
>>> receivers, 1 tuned to the battalion net the other in the company net.
>>> early in the war only 2 out 4 tanks in a tank platoon had the scr528
>>> 603/604 combo, the other 2 tanks had the scr538 with a 603, 605
>>> interphone amp and no xmitter
>>>
>>>
>>> jeff
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Sep 1, 2017, at 9:24 AM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu
>>> <mailto:RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Seeing that a BC-223 transmitter was offered up got me thinking about
>>>> the SCR-245 radio system. That’s the combination of the BC-223
>>>> transmitter and the BC-312 receiver to provide a low powered HF AM
>>>> radio system intended for tank, armored vehicle and command car use
>>>> that was replaced by the SCR-508 being a superior system for mobile
>>>> operation being FM and VHF. The SCR-508 was introduced around mid-41
>>>> with the HF AM SCR-245 coming out in 37 so there was a period of time
>>>> before VHF FM was adopted for vehicle operation but my question would
>>>> be was the SCR-245 ever fielded in combat? Was thinking that maybe it
>>>> was used in North Africa if it were used at all or was the SCR-508 in
>>>> use by that time? If it was in use in North Africa were all the
>>>> vehicles with that installation overhauled to the newer radios before
>>>> use in Europe? What about equipment used in Sicily and Italy? Being
>>>> that was in between the two operations.
>>>>
>>>> The SCR-506 with its massive BC-653 transmitter and the BC-652 receiver
>>>> also fits into this roll somehow but always thought that was more an
>>>> artillery or more a command and control type radio being high power and
>>>> not intended in the small tactical role as the SCR-245 also I have
>>>> noticed that although I have only seen maybe two or three BC-223
>>>> transmitters before the ones I have seen appear to have never been
>>>> issued and perhaps that says something to if they were ever used or not.
>>>>
>>>> The relevance of all this is that in the last several years I have
>>>> noticed that I had moved away from the concept of having just one part
>>>> of a communications system and look at things more as a complete
>>>> package. Where it was once something to have just a receiver or maybe a
>>>> transceiver that I use on the Ham bands now looking at having complete
>>>> systems and operations along the lines of original intentions, at least
>>>> without the shooting part. In the last couple years the M151 with its
>>>> VRC-12 and GRC-106 systems has been a lot of fun for use around the
>>>> house or at shows but have been thinking along the lines of what’s next
>>>> and perhaps a field package of the SCR-245 in a big wooden transit case
>>>> may have possibilities? Who knows, that may have to lead to a WW2 vehicle?
>>>>
>>>> Ray F/KA3EKH
>>>>
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