[Milsurplus] Gen Rad 1106B FR-44/URM-18 Question and comment

[Hubert Miller]

I wonder if anyone here has seen the manual for the General Radio 1106B frequency meter, also known as FR-44/ URM-18. 
There is one section of it, i gather, which is the 'sender' and the other section is a regenerative detector.
I first saw this thing in an old Herbach & Rademan surplus catalog, some decades ago, like maybe 1980s. It was paired with
another that covered another part of the spectrum. This instrument tunes 1 - 10 MHz; i am taking a good guess that the other 
one tunes 100 - 1000 kHz. Why the interest? Well, i always wondered how well this would work when used as a regenerative
radio receiver. I think the H&R price was $125 each, which of course was way unrealistic even in the 1980s. I think this thing
was one of those machines that is obsolete within just a very few years of its painstaking costly development. Who bought 
these but the government and a handful of universities? 
There's one on Ebay now for $300. If i saw one local i would pay "up to" $20 just to assuage my curiosity. The Ebay one, the
would-be seller put time and imagination into his listing, thinking there would actually be an eager market out there. It's too
big - heavy - expensive for the private individual, and no museum has space for something so boring. Reality will soon enough 
educate this seller. 
-Hue Miller 
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