[Milsurplus] Crosby 166 receiver and another.

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 18 Feb 2023 at 0:14, Hubert Miller wrote:

> 
> Found a maual for a Crosby 166 SSB receiver in my stock. No pictures ! So what was 
> this ?
> Hue Miller K7HUE

After downloading the manual from BAMA, it looks to me to be a very well-designed and 
interresting radio. Uses Collins mechanical filters.

I have always had a "thing" for receivers, probably because my first ones were so really 
terrible: Halli S-41G, S-38D, Heath AR-3 in which the BFO never worked.

When I was able to use an SX-28 once, I was amazed at what a decent receiver could do.

BTW, I have a really strange HF receiver here. I have never seen it or anything about it 
anywhere else. I was eventually advised that there was a manual for it which a W2 station 
found in a dump and sent to me. It uses pie-wedge shaped "tuning units" in a horizontal turret 
and no RF amp. Signals go directly to some sort of very high-end product-detector. As I 
remember it, the detector is some sort of Pullen-type. I'll try to get the model number off it 
later this week and some photos for y'all to view.

I would apprecitate any information and/or advice anyone here might have about it.

Ken W7EKB