[Milsurplus] [Glowbugs] German CQ magazine 1949

[Hubert Miller]

Thanks for your input, which did spur me to have a look at this excellent website article and to peer at the magazine cover photo with my glasses off.
The German "HRO", model KST, was not black.
Also, I mention the website has this error: what they call the Japanese "HRO" is not. The Japanese HRO, "Chi-Ichi" ( I think ), has plug-in coils the same as the HRO,
has a crystal filter, but no meter. How do I know this? I have 2 of them. There was also a "3/4 size" Japanese HRO for mobile troops use. ( Some sources say airborne
troops, but that seems unlikely as hell. )
After squinting at the photograph and looking at the article, and I think the scan of such low res photos always loses something, I came up with this:
It IS a HRO-W, the WW2 Signal Corps receiver.
It has the round meter with bottom plastic area that covers part of the meter glass; has no noise limiter control; all other controls match the HRO-W. So this ham
got it surplus from U.S. military "somehow". He must have had a pretty good job to be able to afford this in the still-ruined German economy, I think.
-Hue

From: n2ey
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Glowbugs] German CQ magazine 1949

It should be remembered that the Germans built copies of the HRO during the war, and what appears to be an HRO may actually be a copy.
In addition, the HRO first appeared in 1935, and if the receiver is a pre-war model, was probably acquired before 1939.

http://www.radioblvd.com/National%20HRO.htm

yielded a picture of a German copy being tested alongside a genuine HRO (see attached).

73 de Jim, N2EY


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