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

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 28 Apr 2020 at 11:36, Al Klase wrote:

> Army contracts early on.  I believe the Signal Corps had 
> input on the later Super-Pro designs. 

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

Yes. They also had some screwups, like the later SRR-11,12,13 series. Although I like 
those receivers a lot, they do need some mods to make them more reliable, mainly due to 
the heat problem.
 
> The Britts snapped up HRO's because they could.

Well, I suspect there is much more to that story than that simple reason.

> 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.

Well, the only SX-28 I ever used, when I was back in high-school, impressed me very much. 
In fact, it is the only Hallicrafters receiver (other than that SP-600 clone R-274-thing) that 
did impress me. I could never understand how Hallicrafters receivers could, in general, be 
so unstable, when their transmitters weren't.

The SX-28 IS rather complex and laid out poorly, but it works very well when properly 
restored. It is also kind of "military truckish", like the BC-779 et al.

Ken W7EKB