[Milsurplus] [MMRCG] "Radio Prepares for War"

[Al Klase]

Hue,

I don't think there's any great mystery here.  Only a few companies had 
high-end comm receivers in production.  It was a matter of who won what 
contract.   Things were in short supply everywhere.  Hammarlund locked 
up the Army contracts early on.  I believe the Signal Corps had input on 
the later Super-Pro designs.

RCA did a lot of special purpose comm receivers like BC-224/348, 
RAK/RAL, RBA/RBB/RBC,  BC-312/342/312 etc.  Not to mention the AR-88.    
Like I said elsewhere, they were the 700-pound gorilla.

The Britts snapped up HRO's because they could.  I don't think the SX-28 
was as good as the HRO or Super-Pro, but the FCC put them to good use.  
They were perfectly adequate.

Al

On 4/28/2020 4:00 AM, Hubert Miller wrote:
> I still wonder why the FCC used so many more SX-28s, walls of them, instead of the Hammarlund. Maybe it was the Hammarlund required
> the external supply ? And was more expensive ?
> I talked to Jim Barrows, W7BCT, many years ago about this. He didn't know either, but as I ( "maybe" ) recall, he said the Hallicrafters did
> have the feature of the dial lock. ( Now I wonder, did they ? Or only SX-28-FCC ? )
> He did recognize the McLaughlin add-on SSB unit which together with the SX-28 made up the SSR-1.
> -Hue Miller
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Al Klase – N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/

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