[Milsurplus] HRO

[Nick England]

FWIW Dept. In addition to RAS, the USN also bought RAW and RBJ versions
with 455kc IF.
I have a photo of RAS-5 s/n 2171 so they did buy a few.


On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 5:42 PM Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

> Maybe it's kinda like the jeep: nothing really earthshattering about the
> design, no particular magic, but the configuration idea just
> works well. Germany did not copy the receiver in great numbers. I think
> this was only early-war, but I'm not positive about that.
> It was only one of a great number of different receivers built by them.
> The Japanese copy seems to have been not built in large
> numbers either, judging on how rarely you see them here, which I admit,
> not a very scientific sampling. But even the huge Japan
> Special Receiver 92 with all its numerous coils, is seen here more often
> than their "HRO copy". The Australian AMR-100 and AMR-101
> were copies provided to the U.S. military, kind of a reverse lend-lease,
> but there was also a copy of the SP-200.  Australian firm
> Kingsley produced two "copies" for Australian use. Somewhere I read
> mention that there was a N.Z. version also but I have never
> seen any photo.
> I think the BC-348 variants were almost as much in number and possibly the
> BC-348 "era of use" extended farther than for the HRO.
>
> Occurred to me to do a quick, rough count:
> HRO  U.S. versions for military, through -5
> U.K.   R-109 ?
> German KST
> Japan Chi-Ichi
> Japan   "3/4 size" "paratroops equipment" ( ? )  "Chi-Ichigo  ( ? )
> A.W.A. ( manufacturer )  AMR-100, AMR-101
> Kingsley  KCR-7 or is it KCR-11
> National Radio ( Seattle )  ( labeled )  S-20
> R.A.S.  U.S. Navy
> D.D.R.  ( East German ) AQS ( I think that's the model name )
> oh yeah - motorized U.S. Navy model for bandsweeping; article in AWA
> Journal some years back.
>
> -Hue
>
> >The HRO was copied by the Japanese and German forces during WW2 and
> Australia thought that it also was worth the trouble.  Henry Rogers also
> hints that other allies copied the design but didn't mention who.  Oh, then
> there was East Germany after the war.
>
> Can any other receiver of  this vintage claim as much flattery?  There
> must be some desirable attributes to the National design to have so many
> imitators.
> Jim
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Nick England K4NYW
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