[Milsurplus] RAX rcvr..message from the past

[Hubert Miller]

Not military, but: when I lived in Omaha, 1995, I went to a meet with the really small group 
of Nebraska antique radio collectors. I bought a Crosley 51, a two-tube regen broadcast radio
guaranteed not to work, as the audio transformer had opened. Inside in the lower compartment
were the original batteries, A and B, and stuffed around them as packing were pages from a 
Chicago newspaper, 1925. Like the radio stopped in motion then and just put away. Truthfully,
I have not looked at that radio since then, and since that category no longer lights my filaments,
I need to dig it out and sell it. Some other Omaha gentleman "sparked" the audio transformer 
and brought the continuity back. I am very curious, actually, to know if that fix held up to today.

I had the main unit for a German aircraft radar. Of course, in the states it was absolutely no use or
point to keeping it, as you're just not ever going to find any accessory components, unless you 
devote all the hours of your life to hunting, and that's just not a good use of your days. Anyway
inside it had something written in pencil, something like "Verdoppelte Mutterzucker", which 
doesn't make sense when I try to understand and translate it, but that's the way I remember it
now 25 years later. The man I swapped it to said it meant "doubled main pulse". So the Reich's
technicians, fortunately, were not able to repair it before the show ended.
-Hue Miller